Principal Planner / Scheduler - San Diego CA

Principal Planner / Scheduler - San Diego CA

Job Description

What's it like working for a company that delivers life-saving products and services to our nation's military? Humbling. At BAE Systems, the work that you will do will help some of the nation's biggest defense programs streamlined and on-time. You will be at the center of a team that works together to keep all the moving pieces running and optimize outcomes. Our Ship Repair team is looking for a Master Planner / Scheduler to join us and to help us keep the U.S. Navy fleet mission ready. We value our workforce, and that means providing our employees with competitive salary and benefit packages. You'll have opportunities to grow your career with training and development resources, as well as from colleagues across the business. Make a difference doing work you can be proud of and be part of a team that shares a passion of helping to protect our nation. As a Planner / Scheduler, you will :

Develop, maintain and analyze schedules, taking the lead to plan, track, analyze and report on project schedules of varying size and complexity, both US Government and Commercial.

Provide key support to project and program management efforts, monitoring work flow, coordinating and tracking schedule and identifying key project delivery risks and issues.

Develop schedules using Deltek Open Plan to meet requirements in support of DoD and / or Commercial Contracts.

Interact daily with program management team members (Finance, Ship Superintendents, Project Managers, Program Managers, Craft Managers, Safety, and Quality Dept.), Subcontractor management team members and Government customer employees.

Create project schedules to establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet completion dates according to production forecasts or customer work specifications and drawing orders.

Maintain and perform validation of project schedule configurations to meet industry standards for quality health check requirements for status and reporting.

Organize and meet with production and subcontractors to gather status and review impact to key milestones and events.

Provide project schedule analysis to Project Team, listing critical path activities to key milestones and events, displaying activities that are behind schedule to baseline.

Ensure compliance with company scheduling procedures to set and maintain baseline schedules.

Maintain continuous communication with Customer, Project Managers and Project Teams on the progress of the project and schedule.

Prepare schedule narratives describing the status of assigned projects with weekly deliverables.

Create "what if" scheduling scenarios based on potential new and growth work.

Ensure that requirements of the safety handbook are properly followed and enforced.