Project Controls Analyst/Risk Manager

***Must have an active DOE Q or active DOD Top Secret to apply!***

Leidos has an immediate need for a senior level full time Project Controls Analyst/Risk Manager to support the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Modernization Program with the management of an Integrated Site Schedule (ISS) as well as providing oversight of technical and programmatic risk management. This individual will provide technical support to the Federal Program Manager (FPM), as well as liaison with other Defense Programs (DP), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), and Department of Defense (DOD) organizations. The work performed is extensive in scope and requires experienced individual with demonstrated project controls expertise, risk management experience, is a self-starter, possess the ability to work in a highly dynamic environment, and capacity to interface with a broad range of federal and military senior staff and leadership.

This is a full-time contractor-support position located on-site at the NNSA offices in Albuquerque, NM.

Project Controls compiles and analyzes the data from sites. Prepares monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, annual, and ad-hoc reports to support the program and program operations. Works with the FPM to identify and deliver additional data products. Works with the FPM to provide feedback of data quality and identifies errors for adjudication on subsequent cycles. A key element will be to develop and maintain an NNSA integrated master schedule (NIMS) for the Program from individual site project summaries and detailed schedules. This position requires advanced knowledge in the field of nuclear weaponry, and Primavera/P6 expertise.

Risk Manager compiles and analyzes monthly reports from sites. Collates monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc risk reports for review an analysis by the federal staff. Will be responsible for providing technical and programmatic risk (threat and opportunity) management support and subject matter expertise in the identification and management of risks for the program. Requires coordinating with Federal Program Managers and Engineers, Program Managers and Risk Engineers at the NNSA National Labs and nuclear weapon production facilities, and other DoD partners to draft discrete and cogent risks to inform stakeholder technical and programmatic decisions. The individual must understand and explain the technical and programmatic drivers for program risk. 

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining project management policies and procedures.
• Coordinating, scheduling, analyzing client summary schedules and detailed schedules.
• Comparing and evaluating possible courses of conduct with respect to scheduling and making scheduling decisions after considering the relevant possibilities.
• Using Earned Value Management System (EVMS) principles, terms, and concepts to evaluate client contractor progress.
• Exercising independent judgment to perform as a role model for the team, being self-motivated professional, demonstrating good interpersonal and communications skills, and passing on the working details of the Nuclear Security Enterprise.
• Researching relevant materials to maintain knowledge of Earned Value Standards – EVMS.
• Working as part of the Team to produce regular reports and surge/special products that clearly and accurately represent the status of the Program.
• Work in classified environments to analyze sensitive schedule and program data; work with derivative classifiers to extract appropriate elements for integration into unclassified integrated master schedules and other products.
• Teams with technical staff and project leads and managers to make recommendations to influence key decision makers within the scope of project controls and risk management.
• Researches, assembles, and evaluates project information or data and recommends sound, practical solutions to project related issues.
• Assists with customer interactions, including arranging and documenting periodic reviews and tracking project management deliverables and presenting project management status to external or internal customers.
• Integration and analysis of the individual project schedules
• Assemble and analyze the NIMS.
  • Providing schedule health assessments as well as critical path analysis for the components and systems to support the Program Engineers as well as the FPM.
  • Provide necessary inputs to all program reports.
• EV data analysis
  • Compile and assemble EV data and reports from projects in support of the Program.
  • Analyzes EV trends, forecasts, and areas needed for further analysis and attention needed by the Federal Program and Engineers and FPM.
  • Consolidate and provide the monthly/quarterly/annual and ad hoc reporting utilizing NIMS data