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Description: How to be part of our F-35 Sustainment Operations - Join Program Planning!

F-35: The Centerpiece of 21st Century Global Security

The F-35 strengthens national security, enhances global partnerships and powers economic growth. As the most lethal, survivable and connected fighter jet in the world, the F-35 gives pilots the critical advantage against any adversary, enabling them to execute their mission and come home safe. Learn more about the F-35 here!

This Senior level position provides planning/scheduling support for the Sustainment Operations team on Joint Strike Fighters Program.

What is Program Planning to Lockheed Martin?

Integral to Lockheed Martin's Program Management & Enterprise Performance, it organizes tasks for mission success, scheduling design, development, and sustainability of products. It breaks down products into tasks, sets sequences & durations, ensuring on-time, in-budget, desired quality outcomes. Aeronautical program planning is an exciting process that combines creativity, science, and technology to create amazing machines that enable humans to explore and travel in the air and beyond!

Summary of Key Duties

The F-35 Integrated Program Planning Senior Team member for this position is a self-starter and relationship builder supporting an integrated team within the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) platform to ensure successful F-35 program execution and performance, including all aspects of a validated Earned Value Management system. This position has shared responsibility for schedule baseline management and control as well as assisting in monthly variance analysis.

Responsibilities include the development and maintenance of schedules. Candidate will also integrate and assess schedule impacts of proposed work on both existing and future plans. Candidate will develop/refine knowledge of Critical Path Methodology and how to apply it in schedule network development and analysis. Position interacts across a variety of program functional organizations such as engineering, procurement, contracts, business management, production and quality control. This position will be an active participant in the evaluation of program and project planning and scheduling products and practices and will be instrumental in the resultant remediation activities upon identification of gaps.

Primary Tools Used:

1. Deltek Open Plan Scheduling Tool

2. Milestones Professional

3. Microsoft Excel

Secondary Tools Used (Not limited to):

1. Microsoft Project

2. SAP

What’s In It For You:

From onsite to remote, we offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security, Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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Our global commitment to diversity and inclusion reflects our values of doing what's right, respecting others and performing with excellence. Learn more here: Global Diversity and Inclusion.

Further Information About This Opportunity

*Must be a US Citizen. Must obtain a Secret Clearance as part of employment, but no clearance is required to start.

*This role may have occasional travel to suppliers or other facilities

*Although this position does support some teleworking, the selected candidate will need to be located near our Lockheed Martin facility in Forth Worth, TX and is expected to work in the office as needed.

Basic Qualifications:

- Experiences with networked schedules, integrity checks, and critical path methodology.

- Experiences delivering leadership project briefings

Management

-Bachelors degree

Desired Skills:

- Degree in Construction Management, Program Management, Business Administration

- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications

- Experience with networked schedules, integrity checks, and critical path methodology.

- Experience with Schedule Performance Management Techniques, e.g. Earned Value Management

- Demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving abilities

- Previous experience with Deltek OpenPlan

- Excellent Communication and Organizational skills

Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Clearance Level: Secret

Other Important Information You Should Know

Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

Ability to Work Remotely: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.

Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.

Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week

Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.

Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.

Experience Level: Experienced Professional

Business Unit: AERONAUTICS COMPANY

Relocation Available: Possible

Career Area: Program Planning

Type: Full-Time

Shift: First