Manager, Program Scheduling

Manager Of Program Scheduling

Continental Electronics Corporation is a leading provider of RF technologies and innovative solutions with 80 years of proven performance. CEC has experienced significant recent growth and has established itself as the go-to supplier for a diversified product line supporting a wide spectrum of markets from commercial products, military customers, to space research laboratories.

The Manager of Program Scheduling oversees the development, adherence to, and continual improvement of CEC program scheduling processes and manages all scheduling personnel responsible for development, maintenance, analysis, and reporting of CEC program schedules.

Responsibilities

• Manages a small team of schedule personnel who perform schedule development, maintenance, and dissemination of schedule data and reports
• Manages scheduling processes, seeking continual process improvement, and ensuring all program schedules accurately and consistently reflect how the work is accomplished on CEC programs
• Ensures schedule team members provide both consistent and accurate schedule updates and related data in a format that aids the PMO and customers in making sound decisions
• Develops and maintains integrated master program schedules, supporting the execution of CEC programs and ensuring all projects are tracked consistently through the life cycle of the program and delivered on time
• Both statuses schedules and manages personnel who status schedules that are currently in execution, and works with senior leadership, functional leads, program managers and department managers to obtain accurate schedule and performance data monthly
• Administers and develops schedule risk analysis processes and performs schedule risk and critical path analysis as required; and assists schedule team members in resolving critical path and logic conflicts
• Directs the development of and distribution of schedule data reporting to include presentation material that consists of Gantt; PERT; Critical Path; earned value management metrics, schedule health status, and related schedule performance data
• Assists the PMO in assessing schedule performance and identifies and facilitates resolution or mitigation planning for critical schedule risks and issues
• Ensures compliance with DCMA, DFAR/FAR, and contractual deliveries as dictated by data item description (DID) and contract data requirements list (CDRL) or similar customer requirements
• Uphold the company's core values of Integrity, Innovation, Accountability, and Teamwork
• Demonstrate behavior consistent with the company's Code of Ethics and Conduct. Ensure that direct report(s) are trained and evaluated on their knowledge and adherence to the company's values, Code of Ethics and Conduct, and applicable compliance policies
• It is the responsibility of every employee to report to their manager or a member of senior management any quality problems or defects in order for corrective action to be implemented and to avoid recurrence of the problem
• Duties may be modified or assigned at any time to meet the needs of the business

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (B.S. or B.A.) in Program Management, Business, Engineering, or related field and 5 years of relevant project planning and scheduling experience; or 7 years of project planning and scheduling experience without a degree
• Experience in Program Management, Program Planning or Scheduling departments, preferably in the defense industry sector
• At least 3 years of experience building and statusing schedules in Microsoft Project

Desired Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in MS Project and MS Project add-ons for risk analysis, health status and reporting
• PMI scheduling or project management professional (PMI-PMP) (PMI-SP)
• SECRET clearance or the ability to obtain a SECRET clearance

Competencies

• Proven leadership abilities inclusive of successful change management, mentoring, career development, training, succession planning, holding people accountable, and conducting employee reviews
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills: Ability to effectively communicate with team members, management, and other departments
• Proactive, analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, influencing and attention to detail skills
• Results-oriented and organized with the ability to plan and deliver against deadlines

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Responsible for supervision of schedule team members in a team environment