Staff Engineering Planning Analyst- Program Planning and Operations

About the role

The ideal candidate will Lead and coordinate staffing and operational activities, including hiring, redeployment, and resource management across Vehicle Engineering/Software, Systems Engineering/Avionics, Test & Evaluation, and Product Support. Additionally, maintain operational cadences and monitors direct and indirect budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Leads staffing/hiring/redeployment administrative tasks.
• Represents the AISR&T Vehicle Engineering/Software, Systems Engineering/Avionics, Test & Evaluation, and Product Support departments in Weekly Staffing Meetings.
• Strategizes with the Program Leadership Team to implement solutions for all staffing challenges.
• Organizes and facilitates weekly functional and program staffing meetings.
• Tracks the start dates of incoming candidates.
• Pulls data, prepares charts, affirms status, projects status and devises go forward plan.
• Supports University Relations and Recruiting (UR&R) activities with UR&R POC.
• Led development and implementation of employee development strategies and the associated tracking of training activities.
• Analyzes Training currency (who, what, when) to ensure that training certifications do not lapse.
• Tracks ASTAR certifications and LX mandatory training compliance metrics and sends out e-mails to employees who are overdue.
• Covers and reserves training facilities for training classes.
• Led development and implementation of EI&E processes, including the collection, reporting, and analysis of staffing, performance, quality, and other engineering metrics.
• Drive common people processes across AISR&T Engineering teams; ensure execution of human resource management functions inclusive of staffing fulfillment, redeployment, and release processes; report status including analysis of program staffing, growth, skills projections, and direct labor rates (DLR).
• Coordinate with EI&E leadership team, program, and other functional counterparts to achieve the AISR&T EI&E annual operating plan (AOP) and long-range goals and objectives.
• Supports technical training and skills development requirements through coordination and collaboration with CoTE and EI&E teams across AISR&T Engineering.
• Coordinate skills development initiatives across all Engineering to influence outcomes.
• Coordinate proposal functional reviews and approval sign offs by all required AISR&T and EI&E stakeholders, as applicable.
• Execute projects in support of AISR&T EI&E as tasked by the AISR&T EI&E Leads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 12 years’ experience; Master’s degree with 10 years’ experience, PHD with 8 years’ experience related professional/military experience.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government clearance and Special Access Program (SAP) within a reasonable amount of time as determined by business needs prior to employment.
• Experience in developing and managing processes across large organizations. Execute projects in support of AISR&T EI&E as tasked by the AISR&T EI&E Leads.
• Experience interfacing effectively with all levels of employees and Leadership.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (PowerPoint, Word, Excel).

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong Atlassian suite skills (Jira, Confluence).
• Proven experience supporting an Engineering Section, Department, Assistant Department Manager and/or Staffing Lead.
• In-depth knowledge of the NGAS Engineering organization and its operation.
• In-depth knowledge and experience with the NGAS resource management process inclusive of staffing, redeployment, and release processes.
• Previous experience supporting broad initiatives led by VP, Director or DM.
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills, as well as project management, analytical, planning and presentation skills.
• Experience developing and executing executive-level presentations and briefings.
• Microsoft Teams experience.
• Current and active DoD Secret Clearance and the ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access.