We are looking for an Integrated Product Team (IPT) Planner. You will be part of the Program Management Office function, and you will support a small number of IPTs as part of the Integrated Planning & Scheduling (IP&S) team in defining and maintaining their part of Integrated Master Schedule (IMS). As an IP&S team member, you will be required to develop proposal plans and schedules, baseline execution schedules, maintain the in-work schedules, perform critical path analysis and what-if scenario development, and support the delivery of a number of other IMS-related deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• You will serve as the team planner for a selection of Integrated Product teams in developing, integrating, and maintaining the IMS reporting to the Program Management team
• You will work closely with Integrated Product Team Leads and Product Owners, IP&S team, and program leadership to ensure alignment and integration of the IMS with the high level Master Phasing Plan (MPP), as well as the execution-level Initiatives, Epics and Tasks in Jira.
• You will be accountable for assessment of schedule risk, identification of opportunities (including schedule margin planning), and providing robust/actionable performance reporting from the IMS to support and drive program management understanding and action
• You will drive program execution through quick turn generation of prospective schedule performance analyses, recovery/alternate scenario planning, and improved schedule visibility/visualization.
• You will provide labor and material resources forecasts as an input to yearly company planning 
• You will coordinate across functions and IPTs to identify and resolve schedule performance issues
• You will directly provide input in preparation of the Program Management Review (PMR) every 4 weeks
• You will drive efficiency in program planning and scheduling through continuous process improvement

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in scientific, technical, or business field
• Over 4 years of Planning experience
• Well-rounded, advanced Program Planning skills (budget and schedule development and monitoring, EVM, risk and issue management, program performance metrics and reporting, etc…)
• Experience with all phases of the development life-cycle including planning, conceptual design, requirements definition, preliminary design, prototyping, test and evaluation, detailed design, integration, formal verification, entry into service, etc.
• Outstanding communication & interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively present data and recommendations to executives, peers, and team members
• Exceptional facilitation skills, with the ability to listen carefully and understand in depth the plan of a team in order to translate it into a schedule, and to “connect the dots” in order to identify opportunities to optimize the schedule.
• Demonstrated decision-making skills and ability to effectively manage conflicting tasks and priorities
• Expert knowledge using Integrated Scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project, Open Plan Professional, Primavera, etc
• Working knowledge of tools such as Jira, Confluence, and G-suite

Desired

• Advanced degree in an engineering or scientific discipline, or an MBA
• Over 6 years of specific Program Planning experience
• Experience developing and certifying aircraft from concept through entry into service.
• Exposure to a wide variety of aerospace systems.
• Exposure to Advanced Air Mobility and/or electric VTOL programs
• Experience operating in a hybrid waterfall/agile environment
• Scrum certification (Scrum master and/or Product owner)
• Experience using Microsoft Project Server/Online
• Experience using Milestones Professional
• Experience operating in an Agile program
• Program Management Professional (PMP) certification