Integrated Program Planner Sr - E3

About the role

Partners with Program & Senior Management to drive cost, schedule, and technical performance by facilitating integration across all functions. Responsible for developing compliant Integrated Program Schedules which accurately validate the flow, budget, and resources required to execute contractual scope and overarching program strategy. Provides the program with time-phased critical path predictive analysis and actionable planning data, and develops recommended solutions to programmatic execution conflicts. Ensures all commitments are tracked, monitored, and statused. Prepares and coordinates the development of planning artifacts for solicitation response. Interfaces with program management, senior management, and the customer as the program's planning integrator. Ensures vertical and horizontal integration, and cost/schedule integration between all schedules and other program artifacts. Devises 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.

The F-16 Planning Team supports a true symbol of American pride and excellence. This fighter jet has served the United States Air Force and its allies for decades, protecting freedom and democracy with its unparalleled speed, maneuverability, and advanced technology.

Program Planning at Lockheed Martin organizes tasks for mission success, scheduling design, development, and sustainability of products. It breaks down products into tasks, sets sequences and durations, ensuring on-time, in-budget, quality outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Support an integrated team to ensure successful program execution and performance, including all aspects of a validated Earned Value Management system.
• Shared responsibility for baseline management and control, and assisting in variance analysis.
• Develop and maintain schedules, integrating and assessing schedule impacts of proposed work on existing and future plans.
• Refine knowledge of Critical Path Methodology and apply it in schedule network development and analysis.
• Interact across functional organizations such as engineering, procurement, contracts, business management, and production.
• Actively participate in the evaluation of planning products and practices, and instrumental in remediation activities upon identification of gaps.

Primary tools used: Deltek Open Plan Scheduling Tool, Milestones Professional, Microsoft Excel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) including Cost/Schedule Integration.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams, projects, or programs.
• Experience presenting to leadership, customers, or other stakeholders.

Desired Skills

• Degree in Construction Management, Program Management, Business Administration.
• Experience with networked schedules, integrity checks, and critical path methodology.
• Experience with Schedule Performance Management Techniques, e.g., Earned Value Management.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Previous experience with Deltek OpenPlan.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Experience as a planning team lead and/or contract planner.
• Proposal experience.
• Strong knowledge of LM Program Performance Management (PPM) Command Media.
• Supplier integration experience, performance analysis, and corrective action recommendation skills.
• Familiarity with Risk and Opportunity Management, including identification, integration, and mitigation.
• Deep knowledge of Deltek Open Plan Schedule Risk Assessment (SRA).
• Prior Aerospace experience.

Schedule

The position is primarily remote, with more than 50% of the work performed from home. Occasional on-site visits will be required based on program needs, and workspaces will be reserved through our “hotel” system and conference rooms. Candidates must reside within reasonable proximity to the Fort Worth, TX site to commute and accommodate these ad-hoc requirements.

Pay

Full-Time Salary Range: $72,500 - $134,600.

Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, as well as market (work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision.
• Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10).
• 401(k) match.
• Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Education Assistance.
• Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.

For Washington state applicants only:

• Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays.
• Represented full-time employees: accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays.
• PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.