Sr. Project Schedule Analyst (Onsite)

Columbus Technologies and Services Inc•Pasadena, CA

2d•$60 - $100•Onsite

About The Position

This is a 19-month contract position with the potential for extension or conversion, offering W2 employment with full benefits and a 9/80 work schedule. Customer and contract-specific training will be provided. The role is located at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, and requires the candidate to be a US Citizen. Employment is contingent upon successfully passing a background check and drug screen. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location, with individual pay influenced by work location, job-related skills, experience, and education.

Requirements

Strong experience in developing/maintaining schedule plans, identifying and flagging schedule and cost issues, running what-if scenarios in schedule for mitigation planning, analysis, earned value performance measurement, assessment and reporting, contracts, subcontracts, and procurements.
Strong Experience on a Construction/Flight project with emphasis on implementation phases.
Demonstrated ability to meet constantly evolving project needs and handle contending priorities.
Confirmed leadership skills and demonstrated ability to develop, empower, mentor, and maintain a robust team.
Effective communication skills in verbal, written, and presentation forms.
Ability to interface effectively with all levels of program/project management, technical organizations, peers, subcontractors, other NASA Centers, and the sponsor.
Strong user of Microsoft Office (Word and PowerPoint) with advanced to expert Excel and Microsoft Project Pro skills.
Ability and passion to rapidly learn new technical skills.
Experienced user of Microsoft Project, Milestones Pro.
Able to identify and communicate anomalies in the schedule data, analyze horizontal logic and critical path traceability between subsystem schedule plans, recommend and implement mitigated schedule plans.
Able to work closely with the Project Resource Analyst (PRA) team in implementation and verification of the complete cost and schedule integration plan.
Must be a US Citizen.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience in leading the implementation of project resource planning and control activities and earned value management (EVM) on a complex technical project.
Experience in a project team environment with project reporting, coordinated cost/schedule planning, EVM, and various performance measurement techniques.
Experience with cost-schedule baseline change control processes.
Experience in conducting or participating in Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBRs).
Experience in all phases of the flight project life cycle.
Experience supporting audits and Integrated Baseline Reviews and performing independent assessments

Responsibilities

Serves as an integral partner in the project business team.
Works with the Project/Program team to schedule project elements, project lifecycle, production detail, materiel, etc.
Provides program, project or institutional scheduling products including comprehensive integrated master schedule products, schedule assessment and performance analysis.
Provides reporting and tracking requirements, to ensure project/program or institution is compliant with contractual requirements.
Analyzes and validates current schedule status to current plan, and historical/baseline schedule products.
Analyzes efficiency and trends; forecasts impact to project, program, proposal, and/or institutional requirements.
Responsible for the earned value schedule integration, and other schedule related support and services.