Schedule Analyst II

ARES Corporation•Merritt Island, FL

23h•Onsite

About The Position

KLXS III Artemis – Schedule Analyst Join our team in support of NASA on the Kennedy Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Program (LX) Support Services Contract Three (KLXS III) contract. Under this contract, ARES provides engineering and technical services, program and business management support services and administrative support services to the EGS Program. The contract also includes support for ground systems and spaceflight systems planning and design; project management and integration; operations integration and analysis; technical requirements development, management, and compliance; cost, risk, information, and configuration management; and schedule integration and analysis. Position Summary: Schedule Analyst position supporting the Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Program (LX), Planning and Control office.

Requirements

Scheduling expertise is mandatory.
Must thoroughly understand concepts of milestones, dependencies, float/slack, lag, margin, constraints, baselines/actuals, schedule slip impacts and budgetary impacts.
High level proficiency in one or more of the following: Microsoft Project (Desktop and Enterprise), Primavera P6, and Milestones Professional software packages.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office and commercial business applications.
Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
Must fully understand the systems engineering lifecycle.

Nice To Haves

Project Management Institute - Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
Experience with Milestones Professional or other schedule software packages
Aerospace industry experience
Experience in schedule Analysis tools such as Acuman Fuse and GAO Schedule Assessment tool.
Good organization skills to balance and prioritize work in a fast-paced environment
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Ability to efficiently multitask

Responsibilities

Performing various schedule analysis tasks for the EGS Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) as well as schedule products created by the functional teams.
Summarizing schedule data into presentations as requested by the EGS schedule manager.
Creating schedule guidance for the program and providing schedule expertise to program members.
Interfacing with Moon to Mars Program and Space Launch System/Orion schedule team members as a back-up to the EGS schedule manager.
Updating schedules in Microsoft Project which are used by the enterprise to coordinate dates across programs.
Creating reporting for specific functional organizations and business wide distribution including resource charts, PERT charts, Gantt charts, schedule status, revisions, etc.
Participating in process conversations directly related to Primavera usage and/or database management as relating to Planning and Program Management teams.
Schedule/prediction analysis, and project forecasting.
Working with and updating complex Integrated Master Schedule(s) (IMS).