Schedule Analyst
About The Position
Located in Pasadena, California, JPL has a campus-like environment situated on 177 acres in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and offers a work environment unlike any other: we inspire passion, foster innovation, build collaboration, and reward excellence. We are seeking a Project Schedule Analyst (PSA) to become an integral team member on the project business team, supporting one of our exciting programs and/or projects in our Flight Projects Directorate. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the business planning of a JPL mission from the concept studies phase! Together we can make a big difference to explore the unknown to help benefit humanity!
Requirements
- Typically requires a Bachelor degree with a minimum of 6 years of related experience; Master's degree with a minimum of 4 years of related experience; or PhD with a minimum of 2 years related experience.
- Strong knowledge and able to apply project planning and control principles, including budgeting and scheduling, performance measurements, and earned value.
- Able to interface effectively with program/project management, technical organizations, and industry partners.
- Self-motivated with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong user of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint).
- Experienced user of Microsoft Project and knowledge of Milestones Professional.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience in a project team environment with project reporting, integrated cost/schedule planning, Earned Value Management (EVM), and various performance measurement techniques.
- Experience with cost-schedule baseline change control processes.
Responsibilities
- Build Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), maintain, analyze, and report schedule concerns, associated metrics, and schedule products.
- Assess and validate the schedule/cost baseline integrity to ensure that it is effective, accurate, and executable.
- Identify and communicate anomalies in the schedule data, analyze horizontal logic and critical path traceability.
- Work closely with the Project Resource Analyst (PRA) team to implement and verify cost and schedule integration plan.
- Maintain detailed network schedules in Microsoft Project Server including the extraction and analysis (DCMA 14-Point Assessment) of various schedule related data required for monthly/quarterly reporting.
- Support monthly change control board meetings, and incorporate approved liens (Baseline Change Requests) into the project baseline or estimate at complete (EAC).
- Assist in the production and presents high level summary schedule reports to key engineering partners.
- Conduct and report “what-if” scenarios that can be easily understood by technical leadership
- Generate Quantifiable Back-up Data (QBD) planning and also manage the progress for Earned Value (EV) reporting
- Use technical knowledge about a project to derive schedule risks and potential negative impacts/opportunities to the project schedule
- Work with Lead Scheduler on integrating schedule impact artifacts into schedule presentation package and be able to identify and/or present major takeaways from any set of PSA analysis presentation charts
- Works on critical, often self-initiated, ad-hoc assignments and projects with minimal direction.
Benefits
- health, dental, vision, wellbeing, and retirement plans, paid time off, learning, rideshare, childcare, flexible schedule, parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
