Senior Program Planning & Scheduling Analyst

Sr. Program Planning & Scheduling Analyst

Are you ready to get in on the ground floor of Amazon's long-term initiative to design, launch and maintain a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites to provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world? The Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) business is looking for an entrepreneurial minded Sr. Program Planning & Scheduling Analyst to work in a start-up environment who is passionate about technology, who thinks / acts globally, and has the ability to create and implement solutions, processes and controls with a focus on the public sector. The KGS team is focused on Government customers around the world, including U.S. DoD and other national security customers.

The successful candidate will be responsible for executing day to day program planning & scheduling tasks within KGS, providing qualitative and quantitative data analysis for program performance management, ensuring the business meets critical deliverables, program schedules (Integrated Master Schedule), as well as risk and opportunity tracking, management, and mitigation. This leader will work cross functionally alongside the program finance team, as well as the program management and engineering teams to ensure Government funded programs are tracked and performed on cost and schedule. As KGS grows and takes on more complex contract types, the successful candidate will be responsible for performing Earned Value Management (EVM) activities. While still in the start-up phase, KGS will be tracking EVM "lite" metrics from an internal management perspective for program performance. The program planning organization will have responsibility for aligning our product roadmaps with Kuiper availability, ensuring we have products Government customers can use when Kuiper service comes online. The Sr. Program Planning & Scheduling Analyst will also be responsible for creating integrated schedules that lay in both government program commitments as well as internal deadlines, and then align with Kuiper commercial on product availability and dependencies.

Key job responsibilities include : working with KGS program managers, engineering staff, and finance to standardize development of KGS program schedules (resource loaded); supporting KGS program managers and capture managers on development of proposal schedules in an ambiguous environment (outlining tasks, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables); working with KGS program managers and engineering staff on scheduling approaches for program dependencies; developing processes that automate program planning & scheduling in support of RFx responses, new program stand-up, and annual budget submission; developing integrated KGS portfolio schedule that tracks key milestones and dependencies across all KGS programs; and building "what-if" scheduling tools / processes that support KGS program risk and opportunity assessments and program trade studies. Security clearance is required for this position, and candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a US Government security clearance of TS / SCI.