Planner / Scheduler - NASA Langley Research Center - ASRC Federal Holding Company

ASRC Federal AFSS is a premier provider of systems engineering, software engineering, system integration and project management services for real-time, mission-critical defense systems. We are seeking a Planner/Scheduler to support a NASA contract in Hampton, Virginia.

 Responsibilities:

• Provide planning and scheduling support to Flight, Space Technology & Aeronautics Research projects being managed and/or built at NASA Langley Research Center in accordance with NASA procedures and guidelines.
• Develop project logic networks and estimate, analyze, and validate activity sequencing, durations, and resource requirements and constraints.
• Status, maintain, and control integrated master schedules (IMS) using scheduling software, i.e., MS Project, Milestones Professional and Primavera.
• Gather activity status and forecast information from technical leads, input data into the IMS, and analyze the data to determine overall project performance, variances, and risk areas.
• Analyze project schedules to determine the critical path and evaluate schedule risks and develop what-if scenarios, work arounds and recovery plans to minimize impacts to the project schedule.
• Maintain the IMS baseline and understand and document all approved revisions and replans.
• Identify key project milestones and activities necessary to achieve project objectives and track progress toward meeting them.
• Identify and document schedule and programmatic interdependencies among both internal and external project activities.
• Prepare and maintain a Schedule Management Plan which defines the requirements for schedule planning, monitoring, and control.
• Interface with project resource analysts to ensure costs and schedule integration of the IMS.
• Develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and schedule hierarchy structure to accomplish vertical and horizontal traceability.
• Prepare presentation charts for monthly project management reviews, major project reviews, and other reporting as required.
• Flexibility and adaptability to changing priorities and assignments.
• Additional duties as assigned.