Sr. Manager, Program Scheduling

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Job Title: Sr Mgr, Program Scheduler

Job Code: 42715

Job Location: Salt Lake City, San Diego, Carlsbad, Melbourne, Clifton

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days- totaling 80 hours worked- and have every other Friday off

Position Overview:

L3Harris is looking for a Senior Manager of Program Scheduling to lead one of our Program Master Planning Departments.  An onsite presence will be required due to the nature and scope of the role.  As a manager of a professional program planning team, the selected candidate must have experience with the scheduling discipline, as well as the leadership qualities necessary to foster collaboration among executive management, team members and the programs they support. 

Essential Functions:

Job duties & responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Be the organizational lead to initiate a collaborative campaign across the equivalent levels of management

• Advocate for team and products, ensuring business rhythms support skills and time to generate metrics and forecast abilities

• Ensure major projects, program schedules and plans are horizontally and vertically integrated across company functional groups

• Track plans and schedules, perform risk analysis, identifies and resolves critical path and network logic conflicts

• Utilize Gantt, PERT, milestone charts, Earned Value Management (EVM) and other project management techniques to assess progress and identify performance variances to facilitate focus and intervention on critical areas

• Prepare, develop and coordinate the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to meet all program objectives

• Ensure schedule products are compliant with latest Government, Corporate and Sector requirements and cover gaps in process/knowledge within the team organizational structure

• Implement scheduling best practices as prescribed by industry to include, but not limited to: IPMDAR DI-MGMT-81861C, IPMR DI-MGMT-81861A, Earned Value Management System (EVMS), Critical Path Analysis, Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA), Schedule Performance Analytics and Schedule Health Analysis (DCMA 14-Point, DECM metrics)

• Drive change management and ensure adoption and acceptance of change (i.e. analytics, process, innovative efficiencies).

• Manage and develop a team of program schedule analysts and reporting managers

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 12 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience directly related in Project Schedule and control required. The primary tool utilized will be MS Project Server.
• Must be familiar with Earned Value Management (EVM) practices, Project Planning/Coordination and Production Scheduling.
• Must be able to work within tight deadlines and multi-task various projects in an organized manner required.
• Prior Experience in engineering and operations/manufacturing environment. Military contractor / Aerospace & Defense industry background is preferred.
• Must possess strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
• Knowledge of engineering processes, principles, and practices; knowledge of risk management concepts and risk analysis related to master schedules.
• Must be able to work well with cross