What you’ll be doing:
Develop and maintain the integrated master schedule linked to technical, deliverable, procurement, review, and payment milestones.
Collect status, validate logic, analyze critical path and schedule risk, and forecast milestone completion.
Integrate staffing hours, material commitments, risks, actions, and acceptance dependencies into management reporting.
Support baseline changes, what-if analysis, corrective-action planning, and Government status reviews.
Maintain objective evidence for schedule status and prevent unsupported percent-complete reporting.
What you bring to this role:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and 5+ years of defense/aerospace program controls.
Advanced scheduling-tool experience and strong critical-path/logic analysis.
Experience with fixed-price development, technical reviews, and supplier schedules.
Ability to convert complex engineering work into decision-ready forecasts.
Security clearance: U.S. citizenship is required. Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance at the Secret level or higher, and any program-specific access required for the position. Continued employment is contingent upon obtaining and maintaining the required clearance and access.
Bonus points for the following:
Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, or Open Plan experience.
Schedule risk analysis, IPMDAR, EVM, or cost/schedule integration experience.
PMP, PMI-SP, EVP, or equivalent certification.
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