Project Management & Schedule Specialist
Purpose:
- Hill Technical Solutions, a Valkyrie company, is hiring for a Project Management & Schedule Specialist in Huntsville, AL.
- The work is mission critical for keeping the program management, planning, and schedule management. The qualified candidate will be a proactive, motivated contributor supporting the Space & Missile Defense Command (SMDC).
Job Description:
- Support development and coordination of the overarching Systems Engineering Directorate (SED) program and multi-project schedules; support review and coordination in support of various laboratory efforts, creation of roadmaps, and executive level briefings.
- Coordinate with team members regarding external scope of work and schedule to support lab establishment, operations, projects in a customer reimbursable organization. Details will include schedule for hardware / software upgrades, engineering documentation / reviews, development, system accreditations / cyber requirements, test events, fielding decisions, etc.
- Capable of interpretation of requirements and decomposing them in a logical manner.
- Support multiple projects and labs simultaneously with the ability to triage tasks.
- Support Program and Technical Management Reviews.
- Establish standing operations procedures and deliberate communications internally and externally.
- Coordinate with team members to identify internal and external support tasks and associated schedules for networks, communications, logistics, deployment of element node / interface equipment, etc. to support integration of sensors and external systems.
- Audit the contractor schedules for logical dependency relationships relating to systems and capability development and identify any associated risks.
- Coordinate with team members to resolve internal and external schedule disconnects, identify task successors / predecessors, and address impacts due to schedule delays associated with related / dependent tasks.
- Support budget and spend plans to align with schedule and project plans.
- Support Army Rate Board requirements.
- Coordinate and conduct frequent IMS Quantifiable Backup Data (QBD) Traces in order to ensure availability and traceability.
- Ensure the contractor plans, utilizes, and reports resources with appropriate experience and timely team assignments IMS tasks; evaluate contractor resource status reports / delays at monthly reviews.
- Track/facilitate Government Furnished Equipment (GFX), identify appropriate Action Officers, obtain status updates, and provide consolidated status to the team and JEMINI Program Manager.
- Support Risk and Opportunity Management reviews and ensure mitigation plans are in place when required.
- Coordinate support tasks and associated schedules for networks, communications, logistics, deployment of element node / interface equipment, etc. to support integration of sensors and external systems. Review Contracts documentation (SOW, Tech Evaluations, etc.), as required, from a technical schedule performance perspective.
Qualifications:
- Must have 6+ Years experience in scheduling and program management tasking (will consider education in exchange for years experience).
- Must have a BS/BA, will consider well qualified candidate's experience exchanged for education.
- Must have DoD program experience.
Desired Qualifications:
- MS/MA in applicable business degrees, preferred.
- Knowledge of MS Project, Milestones Professional, EVMs tools, preferred.
- Knowledge of Jira software.
- Formal Program Management training preferred.
- Directed Energy, High Altitude, Digital Analysis, Air & Missile, Space industry, Modeling & Simulation program experience, preferred.
- Army Multi-domain operations (MDO) specific experience preferred.
Security Requirements:
- Must have an Active DoD Secret clearance and the ability to maintain that clearance.
Travel Requirements:
- Occasional Travel- less than 10%
- If position requires travel by domestic flight or access to secure federal facilities/military bases, candidate must be able to obtain (no later than position start date) and maintain appropriate identification credentials, such as REAL ID. (More information regarding REAL ID can be found: https://www.dhs.gov/real-id ).
Physical Requirements:
- Remaining in a stationary position, often standing, or sitting for prolonged periods.
- Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another.
- Communicating with others to exchange information and repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
- Subject to outside environmental conditions (extreme cold/heat), subject to noise, vibration, hazards, atmospheric conditions (affect the respiratory system), frequently work in close quarters and/or function in narrow aisles or passageways (areas that could cause claustrophobia).
Valkyrie strictly adheres to a policy of equal employment opportunity. This policy is based on Valkyrie's commitment to hire and retain qualified employees consistent with position requirements; and to seek, employ, promote and treat all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status or protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition, genetic information or sexual orientation or other protected characteristics.
Please note: The annualized pay range referenced is a general guideline. Valkyrie Enterprises considers factors such as (but not limited to) the following when determining base pay: scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's related work experience, education/training/certifications, key skills, internal peer equity/external market competitiveness, as well as other business considerations.
Additionally, Valkyrie Enterprises provides a variety of benefits to support your best health, wellness, and future, to include medical/dental/vision options, company paid life and disability insurances, 401k with match, education reimbursement, as well as company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).
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