Program Planner II - Military veterans preferred

Job Description: Seeking a program management/planning professional to join the Program Planning & Support (PPS) directorate within Missile Systems (MS). The Program Planner position will be a member of the Program Management Excellence organization, supporting all MS programs. The successful candidate will be responsible for the development, maintenance and analysis of the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and familiarity of Integrated Master Plan (IMP) for LRSO.
Partners with the program team to ensure the cost, schedule and technical requirements are fully integrated and executed as planned. Provides weekly and monthly planning metrics on schedule status, baseline maintenance, critical path analysis, and schedule variance analysis and network logic validation.
Familiar with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) processes and in the discipline of program planning and scheduling. The candidate will contribute to ensuring compliance with governmental and customer requirements. Duties will include: creating and maintaining compliant Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) that achieves necessary cost and schedule integration.
Will assist in the integrated planning and budgeting of tasks, perform analyses and prepare reports to provide the programs with the visibility to make management decision to ensure that programs meet or exceed schedule commitments.
Must be able to ensure the IMS is used as a predictive model and as a valued management tool for the program. The candidate will incorporate contractual and programmatic changes into the IMS in order to maintain realistic current contract schedule baselines. The weekly and monthly business rhythms will require communication (electronically and verbally) of schedule status including but not limited to, results of critical path analysis, schedule variance analysis and the results of ‘what if’ exercises to the Program Manager, the customer and potentially to senior management. To be successful in this role the candidate must be able to develop strong relationships with Program Management, Finance, IPTs, CAMs and customer.
Required skills:

• 2+ years of applicable experience that included Program Planning and Scheduling or equivalent educations
• Experience using software designed for creating and maintaining industry related schedules. (MS Project, Primavera, Open Plan, or similar scheduling software)
• Ability to obtain a security clearance

Desired skills:

• Knowledge and experience in assisting IPTs in planning, scheduling and cost estimating tasks
• Familiar with the integration of schedule and cost in an Earned Value environment
• Raytheon Six Sigma Specialist or similar certification
• Demonstrated ability to deliver customer focused solutions

Required Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Accounting, Finance, Business or related field of study

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Raytheon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.