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Description: L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do. About L3Harris Technologies: L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 47,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries. Job Description: The Program Management Excellence (PMX) organization within the Integration Missions Solutions (IMS) Segment is seeking an experienced PMX Project Manager to help advance and drive segment program performance and execution excellence. This position enables business performance and growth, and facilitates setting the vision, leading change efforts, and focusing and motivating the Program Management community to deliver on expectations and requirements by leveraging Program Management best practices and processes. In addition, this role partners with segment program management leadership to maximize use of PM tools and to accelerate deployment.The successful candidate will possess Program Management expertise to provide direction on consistent cross enterprise processes, tools, best practices, technical consulting, analysis and training in development of Program Management talent. This candidate will serve as the Earned Value (EV) expert (will develop and deploy EV training) - supporting, initiating, and conducting EVMS Scheduling surveillance audits to sustain internal EVMS compliance metrics as well as customer System Surveillance Reviews and Integrated Baseline Reviews. It requires the ability to drive/guide a program team toward best business practices utilizing standard tools and processes in an Earned Value Management environment; therefore, a working knowledge of the EVMS ANSI-748 Standard and governing EVMS policies/procedures, along with integrated budgeting / scheduling tools is expected. This position requires significant analytical skills to perform data traces and analysis in order to determine EVMS compliance to the Standard, System Description and associated company policies/procedures.The candidate must be a self-directed thinker with the capability to navigate through complexities and drive closure to complex programmatic challenges. Must have the ability to work independently and objectively to assess the performance and risk of a wide variety of program types and establish and drive closure to mitigating actions that will ensure long-term success of the programs and the business.Essential Functions:
Knowledge of EVMS EAI-748 Standard, Government contracting and reporting requirements
Knowledge of MS Project and P6 Primavera
Understanding of EVMS concepts with application to company policy/documentation to include cost/schedule integration, risk identification and change management
Develop and deploy EV Program Templates and training
Conduct EV Analysis/Standard Reporting.
Standardize DECM/CP/SRA/SMART Metric Analysis
Management of audit activities to include surveillance initiation, data traces, interviews, corrective action notifications, and assessment reporting through to program compliance completion
Ability to utilize earned value criteria and analysis experience to determine system compliance
Ability to effectively communicate earned value concepts and non-compliances
Must possess excellent writing and verbal communication skills
Familiarity with Scheduling and EVMS tools, along with MicroSoft office products
Must be self-motivated and able to work independently under limited supervision
Ability to meet critical deadlines
Must have strong analytical and problem solving skills
Provide collaborative support to program management teams along with Program Planning and Project Controls departments
Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task effectively
Participates in surge team projects and performs other duties as assigned by the Vice President, Program Management.
Leadership with ability to influence/cultivate EV practices within program teams
Ability to Travel – up to 20%
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 12 plus years of applicable experience in the aerospace and defense industry; Or, Graduate degree and a minimum 10 plus years of applicable experience. In lieu of a degree, minium of 16 years of prior related experience
Experience with visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI)
Self-starter with experience leading projects to completion and coordinating across numerous cross-functional customers and stakeholders
Prior experience implementing, rolling out EVMS tools
Demonstrated working knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)
Ability to obtain Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Clearance
Preferred Additional Skills:
Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance.
Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally, across geographically-disbursed teams.
Knowledge of / experience with Corporate reporting and oversight processes, including Program Reviews and other Program Management requirements.
Experience in organizations and situations requiring a combination of strategic vision, practical project management, and execution skills.
Strong knowledge and skills with the ability to apply recognized Project Management and Risk Management methodologies.
Significant experience with and mastery of Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.
Knowledge of and ability to apply Lean Six Sigma process improvement methodology.
L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.
Full-time