Project Management & Schedule Specialist (Job ID:3409) - Chicago Illinois

Company: Valkyrie Enterprises
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posted On: 01/22/2025

Project Management & Schedule SpecialistPurpose:

• 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.
  • 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 of experience in scheduling and program management tasking (will consider education in exchange for years of 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.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.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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