Senior Program Planner (Hybrid)

Date Posted:

2024-04-04

Country:

United States of America

Location:

PW100: East Hartford 400 Main Street, East Hartford, CT, 06118 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

Pratt & Whitney is working to once again transform the future of flight—designing, building and servicing engines unlike any the world has ever seen. And because transformation begins from within, we’re seeking the people to drive it. So, calling all curious. 

Come ready to explore and you’ll find a place where your talent takes flight—beyond the borders of title, a country, or your comfort zone. Bring your passion and commitment and we’ll welcome you into a tight-knit team that takes our mission personally. Channel your drive to make a difference into shaping an organization and an industry that’s evolving fast to the future.

Innovation through diversity of thought. At Pratt & Whitney, we believe diversity of thought enables creativity, innovation, and a foundation for inclusion. By fostering an inclusive culture, we accept a shared accountability and responsibility to recognize, sponsor, coach, hire and promote talent equally. We welcome our employees to be their whole - best - selves at work because trust, respect, and integrity, are a part of our DNA.

At Pratt & Whitney, the difference you make is on display every day. Just look up. Are you ready to go beyond?

Position Overview:

Pratt & Whitney’s Program Planning & Scheduling (PP&S) organization is searching for a Program Planner. PP&S works with key program stakeholders to promote the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) as a healthy, integrated management tool. When properly maintained, the IMS can be used to influence program decisions and actions.

The Sr Program Planner works with program office stakeholders and partners to ensure quality inputs and baseline integrity in alignment with government and company standards. The ideal candidate is a motivated team player who understands how to effectively and independently drive timely and accurate support of the IMS. We are seeking a critical thinker, with expertise in scheduling best practices and compliance, able to make recommendations for alternative ways to view program information enabling program management decisions.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Interpret contract requirements and objectives to create a thorough IMS that is executable and meets customer, quality and EVMS requirements.
• Provide consulting support to CAMs by employing best practices to ensure timely and accurate status/forecasting of work; analyze program plans; assist in developing sound schedule baseline changes by analyzing, approving, and integrating the changes.
• Analyze program critical paths and facilitate root cause assessments to baseline execution variances with CAMs, resulting in sound analysis and mitigation. Recommend actions to program management based upon program metrics, trends, and variances.
• Evaluate schedules for IMS quality according to DCMA requirements and suggest improvements to processes.
• Independently perform as program IMS lead in program reviews and meetings.
• Partner with EV analysts and CAMs to ensure alignment between cost and schedule, influence partners in processes and compliance.
• Create compliance scheduling procedures and standard work.
• Continuously expand technical knowledge to enhance innovation, productivity, and process efficiency.
• Train others and communicate improvements to the PP&S organization.
• Support program risk/opportunity analysis as it relates to the IMS.
• Lead the development and delivery of Schedule Risk Assessments and IMS baselines; communicate and influence internal and external customers regarding the process, assumptions, and conclusions.
• Lead company PME initiatives through testing and implementing (including creation of WSI & training):
  • PP&S SME for EV transformation
  • IPMDAR processes

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years’, or advanced degree with 5+ years’ experience required.
• Equivalent advanced to expert experience to include:
  • Experience working as a program level planner using logic-driven scheduling software such as Primavera, MS Project or Open Plan required.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in schedule analysis. Experience analyzing for IMS quality (such as DCMA 14-point and DCMA DECM) and ability to produce valid critical paths, applying root cause analysis to variance recovery.
  • Knowledge in the application of integrated cost/schedule techniques on programs.
  • Knowledge of or experience in project management.
  • Must be proficient in MS Office Programs (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to ac