Integrated Program Planner - Level 4

Basic Qualifications

• 5-8 years of previous planning/scheduling experience
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Open Plan, One Pager Pro, and Excel
• Experience with Proposal Planning
• Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) concepts
• Prior team lead or leadership experience

Job Description

Protecting what matters most is the mission that matters most. Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more— we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.

At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.

Our Enterprise Performance organization seeks a level 4 Program Planner to join our mission supporting New Business working proposals and various strategic initiatives within in our Commercial Civil Space line of business.

In This Role You Will:

• Partner with Program, Capture & Senior Management to drive cost, schedule, and technical performance by facilitating integration across all functions
• Develop compliant Integrated Program Schedules which accurately validate the flow, budget, and resources required to execute contractual scope and overarching program strategy
• Provide time-phased critical path predictive analysis and actionable planning data, and develop recommended solutions to programmatic execution conflicts
• Ensure all commitments are tracked, monitored and statused
• Prepare/coordinate the development of planning artifacts for solicitation response
• Interface with program management, senior management and the customer as the programs planning integrator
• Ensure vertical and horizontal integration, and cost/schedule integration between all schedules and other program artifacts
• Devise modeling and measuring techniques to integrate risks and opportunities with schedule and cost baseline, and to perform schedule risk assessments
• Utilizes performance and health metrics analyses to drive actions resulting in improved program performance

Desired Skills

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 8+ years of previous planning/scheduling experience
• Understanding of the end-to-end lifecycle of a spacecraft/satellite program
• Understanding of the Program Performance Management Process
• Demonstrated competency in integrating cost/schedule
• Ability to work independently as well as part of an integrated team
• Strong sense of follow-up and closure with attention to detail
• Self-starter able to operate with minimal guidance
• Desire and willingness to support dynamic proposal activities
• Strong influencing and relationship management skills
• Excellent problem solving skills to identify and resolve challenges arising in dynamic situations
• Makes sound decisions quickly and efficiently, even with limited information or under time constraints
• Able to communicate and work effectively across multiple disciplines
• Thrives in fast-paced environments and demonstrates a willingness to adjust to changing priorities
• Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills