Program Planner

Program Planner | Lockheed Martin

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For over 60 years, FBM has delivered on the mission to ensure the safety and security of our nation. We offer unique career opportunities and challenges working with diverse customers such as the United States Navy on a program that is vital to national security. We help keep this nation secure and our adversaries in check. The Lockheed Martin Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) program Program Planning and Documentation (PP&D) Department is searching for an early career Integrated Program Planner to join our Program/Advanced Planning Team located on Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Silverdale, Washington.

Duties include:

• Partnering with program & senior management to drive cost, schedule, and technical performance by facilitating integration across all functions.
• Providing the Program with time-phased critical path predictive analysis and actionable planning data, and developing recommended solutions to programmatic execution conflicts.
• Ensuring all commitments are tracked, monitored and statused.
• Preparing the development of planning artifacts for solicitation response.
• Interfacing with program management, senior management and the customer.
• Ensuring program, cost and schedule integration between all schedules and other program artifacts.
• Devising modeling and measuring techniques to integrate risks and opportunities with schedule and cost baseline, and to perform schedule risk assessments.
• Utilizing performance and health metrics analyses to drive actions resulting in improved program performance.

Additional data analysis, special projects, or duties may also be assigned based on the needs of the program. This job may require travel approximately 10% of the time, or as necessary to support relevant projects.

You will be successful in this position if you:

• Have great relationship management skills and can interface with co-workers and management from different organizations and backgrounds
• Leverage creativity and skill to quickly assemble a professional presentation
• Can take control of an ambiguous situation
• Utilize critical thinking skills to anticipate new planning factors or roadblocks

Desired skills:

• Previous experience in a business unit within the Fleet Ballistic Missile program
• 4-year degree or certification in any Business, Technical, or Project Management field
• Active security clearance
• Experience creating and managing light/medium-weight Integrated Master Schedules
• Ability to correctly prioritize and execute work in an ambiguous environment
• Ability to self-start and drive action to closure
• Great communicator who takes the initiative to communicate
• Ability to maintain a positive attitude and remain flexible while managing multiple priorities and/or handle other potentially unrelated duties, as assigned
• Demonstrated experience in a position requiring a high level of attention to detail and organization

This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.