Program Planner/Scheduler Supervisor

Overview:

Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The 2,000+ employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions. From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work in a collaborative environment that inspires the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for true innovation. For more information about Draper, visit www.draper.com.

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Duties/Responsibilities

• Ability to understand the program technical and programmatic solution, and partnering with the program team, lead integration of that solution into the IMS baseline plan ensuring the cost, schedule and technical requirements are fully integrated into the execution plan.

• Lead creation and maintenance of compliant Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) on requirements provided by the customer that achieve necessary cost and schedule integration.

• Lead and support the team to ensure program plan and IMS is developed consistent with IPDS and program life cycle. Must be able to review the IMS planned work for accuracy, identifying missing work or work that is planned improperly.

• Understands, can create, use and recommend appropriate alternative/supplemental program mgmt. plans/artifacts (HUM, MPS, First Unit Flow), to help the program team understand and manage to the plan.

• Conduct and explain Schedule Risk Analysis results to program teams, understands SRA concepts and theory, with ability to interpret results to the program team and integrate mitigation plans into the IMS and schedule risks into the Risk Management process with the assistance of a Scheduled Risk Analysis SME.

• Provides weekly and monthly planning metrics on schedule status, baseline maintenance, critical path analysis, and schedule variance analysis and network logic validation, employing appropriate Earned Value Management System processes and deliverables for an IPMDAR CDRL.

• Manage a team of Planner/Schedulers. Hire, fire, complete annual performance evaluations.

Skills/Abilities

• Experience using software designed for creating and maintaining industry related schedules. (MS Project, Open Plan, or similar scheduling software)

• Experience developing Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) and/or evaluating critical path and/or workflow.

• Experience with Earned Value Management System (EVMS) or similar business process.

• Demonstrated ability to facilitate the effective integration and maintenance in the IMS of technical, schedule and cost in an EVMS environment.

• Demonstrated ability to understand the program technical and programmatic solution and lead integration and modelling of that solution into the IMS.

• Demonstrated ability to interpret/analyze SRA results, program schedule risk/opportunity drivers and schedule probability of success.

• Understanding of hardware and software development life cycle, exposure to agile methodologies

• Demonstrated ability to manage/lead/teach and support proper scheduling and EVMS techniques, principles for project personnel or teams of varying size and backgrounds.

• Demonstrate the ability to understand different perspectives and ask right questions ensuring IMS integrity.

• Be able to identify and drive process improvement, ability to work with the team to develop solutions and solve problems.

• Familiarity with APEX financial systems

• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of Cost Estimating/BOE generation.

• Project Management Professional - Scheduling Professional (PMP-SP)Certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI) or equivalent

Education

• Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree in STEM, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field of study

Experience

• A minimum of 8 years of Program Planning or Scheduling or Project Management experience, or with an Advance Degree in a related field a minimum of 5 years' experience is required.

Additional Job Description:

Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.

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