Project Scheduler/ Project Schedule Analyst V

Title: Project Schedule Analyst V

Location: Pasadena, CA - ON-SITE

Duration: 18 months, with possibility of conversion/extension -

Pay Range: $60.85-$100.81 hourly pay with PTO and Holiday Pay

Plan the Work That Helps Shape the Future! We’re hiring a Project Schedule Analyst V/ Scheduler to support complex, high-impact engineering programs and keep critical projects moving from planning through execution.

Summary:

Serves as an integral partner in the project business team. Works with the Project/Program team to schedule the 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 the project/program or institution is compliant with contractual requirements. Analyzes and validates current schedule status against the 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.

Required Skills:

Experience and knowledge in the following areas:

• 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 competing 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.

Desired Skills:

• 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