Senior Project Controls Analyst

Description

Must have an active DOD Top Secret or active DOE Q clearance. Active, meaning the individual granted a clearance is briefed and currently occupies a position for which the clearance is required.

Leidos has an immediate opening for a Senior Project Controls Analyst that has earned value experience to support a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Modernization Program within the Office of Stockpile Modernization. This individual will lead the development of the NNSA integrated master schedule (NIMS) and also provide programmatic earned value support. The individual will support the Federal Program Manager (FPM), as well as liaise with other Defense Programs (DP) offices, the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Laboratories, Plants, and Sites (LPS). The work performed is extensive in scope and requires an experienced individual with demonstrated project controls expertise, earned value experience, is a self-starter, possess the ability to work in a highly dynamic environment, and capacity to interface with a broad range of federal and military senior staff and leadership.

This is a full-time contractor-support position located on-site at the NNSA offices in Albuquerque, NM.

Project Controls compiles and analyzes the deliverables from the LPSs. Prepares monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, annual, and ad-hoc reports to support the program and program operations. Identifies and delivers data products to the Federal Program Office (FPO) and Federal Program Manager (FPM) to support programmatic deliverables. Works with the FPO to review LPS deliverables and provides feedback on data quality and identifies errors for adjudication on subsequent cycles. A key element is developing and maintaining the NIMS for the FPO from individual site project summaries and detailed schedules. This position requires advanced knowledge in the field of nuclear weapons programs and Primavera/P6 expertise. Additionally, the earned value management (EVM) work includes gathering project performance data, including actual costs, earned value, and planned value and analyzing this data to identify variances and trends. Also includes calculating key EVM metrics such as Cost Variance (CV), Schedule Variance (SV), Cost Performance Index (CPI), and Schedule Performance Index (SPI) as well as forecasting Estimates at Completion (EAC) and Estimates to Complete (ETC) based on current performance and projected future work.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining project management policies and procedures.
• Coordinating, scheduling, analyzing client summary schedules and detailed schedules.
• Comparing and evaluating possible courses of conduct with respect to scheduling and making scheduling decisions after considering the relevant possibilities.
• Using EVM principles, terms, and concepts to evaluate LPS progress.
• Exercising independent judgment to perform as a role model for the team, being self-motivated professional, demonstrating good interpersonal and communications skills, and passing on the working details of the Nuclear Security Enterprise.
• Researching relevant materials to maintain knowledge of EVM Standards.
• Working as part of the Team to produce regular reports and surge/special products that clearly and accurately represent the status of the Program.
• Work in classified environments to analyze sensitive schedule and program data.
• Team with derivative classifiers to extract appropriate elements for integration into unclassified integrated master schedules and other products.
• Collaborate with technical staff and project leads and managers to make recommendations to key decision makers within the scope of project controls and EVM.
• Researches, assembles, and evaluates project information or data and recommends sound, practical solutions to project related issues.
• Assists with customer interactions, including arranging and documenting periodic reviews and tracking integration and analysis of the individual project schedules and presenting status to internal or external customers.
• Assemble and analyze the NIMS. Provide schedule health assessments as well as critical path analysis for the components and systems and provide necessary inputs to all program reports.
• EV data analysis

• Compile and assemble EV data and reports from the LPSs in support of the Program.
• Analyzes EV trends, forecasts, and areas needed for further analysis and attention needed by the FPO.
• Consolidate and provide the monthly/quarterly/annual and ad hoc reporting utilizing NIMS data.
• Provide necessary inputs to all program reports.

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years' related experience or Master's degree with 6+ years' related experience
• Active DOE Q clearances or active DOD Top Secret clearance
• Demonstrated expert level experience with Primavera P6
• Staff experience in military, government, or corporate enterprise
• Knowledge of/or experience with project management best practices and principles
• Experience with project controls practices and principles, including work breakdown structure development, duration management, schedule logic and dependencies, critical path analysis, change control, EVMS, status reporting, and what-if analysis
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite with particular emphasis on word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet applications (MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Excel) required and proficiency may be tested
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience in developing briefings for senior and executive management.
• Knowledge of project life cycles and the impact of scope, schedule and budget changes on the execution of projects.
• Willingness to travel, estimated 10-15%.

• PMP certification
• Project management tools; MS Project, Primavera, and EVM tools
• Skill in using Microsoft applications, email and various database project tracking software packages, scheduling software, and the electronic project management system, e-Builder
• Nuclear weapons experience and Interagency experience
• Knowledge of MS SharePoint project sites and Microsoft Access databases