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SalaryL3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.
About L3Harris Technologies:
L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 47,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.
L3Harris is looking for a Lead, Program Scheduler/Planner for our Space & Sensors organization located in Mason, Ohio, preferred, or virtual. The Lead Program Scheduler performs schedule analysis in support of assigned programs or projects, as well as leads others on the team. Ensures major projects and program schedules and plans are integrated across company functional groups including finance, engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality. Tracks plans and schedules, performs risk analysis, and identifies/resolves critical path and network logic conflicts. Utilizes Gantt, PERT, milestone charts, earned value management and other project management techniques to gauge progress and identify performance variances to facilitate focus and intervention on critical areas. Ensures compliance with internal program procedures and project control system guidelines. May lead or participate in scheduling status reviews.
Essential Functions:
- Responsible for detailed schedule analysis of network logic and critical path.
- Performs "what if" scenarios for individual program management team members.
- Performs schedule variance analysis by comparing baseline to schedule.
- Leads management team in schedule development.
- Resolves critical path and network conflicts.
- Develops new scheduling procedures, methods, and concepts.
- Reviews and develops highly complex schedule network logic for errors and inconsistencies.
- Ensures compliance with internal program procedures as well as PCS (Project Control Systems) guidelines and IMS DID (Integrated Master Schedule Data Item Description).
- Provide leadership functions to other schedulers.
- Provide schedule training to department, engineering, and Controller's organization.
- Ensures management understanding of network logic, Gantt, pert, milestone lists, and resource information in the schedule.
Qualifications:
- BS/BA degree in finance or business and/or with a minimum of 12 years scheduling experience. MA/MS with 6 years of scheduling experience.
- 12 years of MS Project experience is required. 4 years of earned Value experience is required.
- U.S. Citizenship required. Candidate must possess or be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
- Ability to travel 25%
Preferred Additional Skills/Experience:
- Skilled in the use of Microsoft Project Professional, Excel, Excel Pivot Tables, Milestones Professional and PowerPoint, and Deltek OpenPlan, Cobra, and Empower.
- Demonstrated experience on programs with responsibility for development and execution of the IMS, including setup, baseline management and update/maintenance, schedule analysis, critical path analysis, SRAs, managing resources in the IMS, and CDRL deliveries.
- Knowledge and experience of Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) And industry best practices.
- Experience with schedule health metrics (e.g., DCMA 14- Point assessment; DCMA EVMS Compliance Metric (DECM) and Schedule Metric Analysis – such as BEI, CPLI, SPI, etc.
- Ability to interface and influence at all levels of the organization.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with other departments.
- Able to work within tight deadlines and multi-task various projects in an organized manner required.
- Critical thinking and problem solving, attention to detail and quality of product deliverables.
- Knowledge of EVMS Guidelines (EIA 748-D), Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD), and Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR/IPMDAR) strongly desired
- Experience with subcontractors’ schedule integration
- Experience with DCMA Earned Value (EV) Audits
