Defense-Integrated Master Scheduler

Spirit AeroSystems designs and builds aerostructures for both commercial and defense customers. With headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, Spirit operates sites in the U.S., U.K., France and Malaysia. The company's core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components for the world's premier aircraft. Spirit AeroSystems focuses on affordable, innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions to support customers around the globe.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Work with all program team members to ensure that program schedules reflect reality, and that programs and key deliverables will be completed on time.
• Work with product managers, engineers, manufacturing, and supply chain to develop logic linked resource loaded integrated master schedules.
• Experience with running and resolving Schedule Health Metrics, including DCMA 14-point assessment.
• Maintain, communicate, and present critical path schedules to stakeholders.
• Facilitate and drive weekly schedule reviews with responsible functions engineers, ensuring up to date and accurate forecasts.
• Quickly understand existing and future products and sequences in order to actively mitigate/de-conflict issues.
• Maintain and improve scheduling tools and processes that identify, analyze, and brief potential constraints on a monthly, weekly and daily basis.
• Maintain and perform schedule risk analysis to identify program criticality and uncertainty.
• Able to work and communicate well with others in a team environment.
• Able to be diplomatically persuasive or demonstrate assertive leadership when necessary.
• Strong organizational, analytical, verbal and written communication skills including public speaking.
• Experience with medium to large sized project (2,000-8,000+ lines).
• Ability to work with limited supervision to develop and manage many levels of program plans and schedules simultaneously.

REQUIREMENTS

• • • • 3-5 Years experience with BA or 1-3 Years with MBA
      • 3+ years of experience with building, analyzing, and managing schedules in Open Plan Professional or Microsoft Project.
      • 3+ years of experience with Program Management for a large-scale acquisition program.
      • 3+ years of experience with providing schedule and critical path analyses, including slip and risk mitigation strategies.
      • Must hold a DoD Secret clearance, or able to obtain one post-employment.
      • Assists in the preparation, coordination, scheduling and change management activities of maintaining an integrated plan to meet program requirements in accordance with Spirit Aerosystems Program Management best practices.

Spirit AeroSystems is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law.