Senior Project planning & Controls

MDA

$80K — $110K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Commerce (or equivalent) with 4+ years of related experience.
  • Strong planning and scheduling abilities.
  • Expertise in cost accounting practices.
  • Proficient PC skills for handling detailed documentation.
  • Basic understanding of contract law.

Responsibilities

  • Plans contractual activities with Program and Product Line Managers according to the work breakdown structure.
  • Conducts detailed cost and schedule analysis to highlight variances for corrective actions.
  • Inputs cost and schedule data into divisional level reports for compliance.
  • Prepares program forecasts for resource loading and revenue projections.
  • Offers contractual administrative support to Business Administrators.
  • Develops and maintains a program performance measurement baseline following MDA PMCS guidelines.
  • Documents scope changes and ensures their timely implementation within the performance measurement baseline.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health care benefits including extended healthcare and flexible drug plans.
  • Dental and vision benefits for employees and dependents.
  • Disability income protection and life insurance coverage.
  • Access to group retirement savings plans.
  • Employee and family assistance program for wellness support.
Full Job Description
Summary:

Satellite Systems: As the leading global independent commercial supplier of antennas, payloads, and electronics for communication and radar satellites, our team has successfully contributed to hundreds of missions in the past 60 years. With an extensive heritage in a wide range of solutions delivered to customers globally, our Satellite Systems team continues to grow and evolve on the ground and in the stars.

Role:

To develop and maintain a contractual program performance measurement baseline to ensure that timely and accurate cost and schedule analysis is performed and detailed corrective actions are taken when necessary.

Responsibilities/Tasks:

  • In conjunction with Program and Product Line Managers, plans the contractual effort in accordance with the work breakdown structure.
  • Provides detailed cost and schedule analysis and summarizations of variances to the program performance baseline tin order to identify program areas where corrective action is required.
  • Provides cost and schedule inputs into program/divisional level reports to meet reporting requirements.
  • Provides program forecasts to operations and finance for man loading and revenue projection requirements.
  • Provides contractual administrative support to Business Administrators.
  • Developing and maintaining a program performance measurement baseline within MDA PMCS guidelines. An accurate baseline is fundamental in performance analysis. This is accomplished by maintaining detailed documentation of scope changes and ensuring timely implementation of these scope changes within the performance measurement baseline.
  • A combination of other relevant experience/education will be considered


Minimal Qualifications Required:

  • Bachelor of Commerce (or equivalent) with 4+ years of related experience.
  • Strong planning and scheduling abilities.
  • Strong cost accounting abilities.
  • PC skills and the ability to deal with detailed documentation.
  • Basic understanding of contract law.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate PMCS requirements to the program team. Some presenting skills required.


Comments/Special Considerations:

Successful candidates must obtain and hold security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.

Benefits Statement:

MDA provides competitive compensation and benefits packages for its employees at all locations. As a team member of MDA, you and your qualified dependents are eligible to participate in a benefit plan that ensures a comprehensive level of protection through competitive health care including; extended healthcare and flexible drug plans, dental and vision benefits, disability income protection, life insurance, group retirement savings plans; and an employee and family assistance program.

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