Program Planning and Control Expert Program Engineer

Program Planning and Control Expert Program Engineer

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or advanced degree from an accredited program in a technical discipline
• 6+ years’ experience working in technical disciplines across large government programs
• Excellent teaming and leadership skills with an ability to multi-task across various issues/disciplines simultaneously
• Excellent presentation and communications skills, including development of and briefing of decision packages and complex information in a succinct and polished manner.
• Experience working across various teams and many different engineering disciplines.
• Strong project management skills and exceptional interpersonal skills
• Ability to work within a team environment, where the team is distributed across multiple NASA and Aerospace Corporation organizations, projects and programs.
• Ability to identify and communicate concerns to leadership in a diplomatic manner
• Superior analytical, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple concurrent tasks and provide direction on competing priorities.
• Extensive knowledge of scheduling principles, tools, and analysis techniques.
• Experience performing probabilistic schedule risk analysis and schedule health analysis.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.
• Extensive experience using commercial schedule management tools such as Microsoft Project or Primavera.
• Experience with implementation and management of integrated scheduling tools.
• Willing to travel approx. 10%
• This position may require the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Developing Integrated Plans: Creating comprehensive program plans with detailed cost, schedule, and technical baselines, including Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), to guide project execution.
• Performance Monitoring: Continuously tracking project progress against the baseline using metrics, identifying deviations, and initiating corrective actions.
• Risk Management: Identifying and assessing potential program risks, developing mitigation strategies, and monitoring their effectiveness.
• Cost Control: Managing program budgets, forecasting future expenditures, and identifying cost-saving opportunities.
• Information Technology: Supporting IT topics from a program perspective as well as export control and other program security matters
• Schedule Management: Analyzing critical path activities, managing dependencies, and implementing schedule recovery plans when necessary.
• Data Analysis: Utilizing data analytics tools to generate insights into program performance, identify trends, and inform decision-making.
• Stakeholder Communication: Regularly reporting program status to senior leadership, project teams, and external stakeholders.
• Process Improvement: Identifying opportunities to enhance program planning and control processes, implementing best practices, and ensuring compliance with NASA standards.
• Serve as a highly proactive technical specialist, understanding issues and formulating options/recommendations, while working closely with the headquarters and program teams across other offices, working groups and panels.
• Lead forums and venues to formulate and prepare recommendations on improving the mission integration and operations process and drive an outcome.
• Perform other duties for the customer as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+years’ experience with NASA or on NASA commercial systems and international partners
• Understanding of specific NASA Human Spaceflight topics
• Extensive project management expertise
• Demonstrated experience with collaborations supporting multiple disciplines/specialties