Program Planner, Launch Vehicles

As an end-to-end space transportation company, Firefly Aerospace is on a mission to enable our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the surface of the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

SUMMARY

Firefly seeks a highly talented Program Planner to join our fast-paced team. In our Launch Vehicles group, you will develop and maintain program plans for our Alpha & MLV launch vehicle systems. You will work with our Launch Vehicle Program Managers, Launch Operations Team and Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to successfully plan, coordinate and execute our Launch Vehicles from design to production, integration, test, and all the way through liftoff.

A capable candidate could naturally transition into a deputy program manager or product owner in a few years' time.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for the Integrated Master Schedules of both the Alpha and MLV Programs by concatenating the ancillary department specific schedules into the higher-level program IMS.
• Active coordination between the technical leadership to ascertain activity dependencies and analyzing resource loading to support program milestones.
• Supports identification of possible capacity constraints between the Alpha and MLV Programs utilizing common resources and works with the Program Managers to find resolutions.
• Perform splinter scenario simulation and any associated schedule risks to support strategic planning efforts.
• Eager, self-starter that is service-oriented to help the team drive efficient execution in a fast-paced environment.
• Management of diligent change control and change communication to all levels involved with the Alpha and MLV Programs to ensure extreme transparency.
• Lead intermittent schedule status reviews with the Program Managers and executive leadership showing progress, forecast and schedule metrics.
• Encourage iterative improvements in corporate schedule management and program planning.
• Support the Program Managers in the overall program budget management.
• Visiting the production and test site in Briggs, Texas frequently to coordinate with the production and test teams to align on schedule and deliverables.
• Plan and schedule readiness reviews for the Alpha and MLV programs to meet customer needs, both internal and external.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Data Science, Business Intelligence, Project Management, or Engineering.
• Experience developing integrated master schedules with resource loading using Smartsheet, MS Project, Primavera or comparable scheduling software.
• Great understanding of and implementation of scheduling best practices.
• Experience in a manufacturing/product fulfillment based environment.
• 3+ years of experience in program scheduling/planning and/or production controls.
• Comfortable communicating information or data in a concise manner (verbally, graphically, visually).
• Experience with cost/schedule integration and analysis tools.
• Strong communication skills in technical work environments.
• Experience with Atlassian products like Confluence & Jira.
• Comfortable writing macros and leveraging API data from Smartsheet, MS Project, equivalent.
• Familiarity with version control systems like SVN, Bitbucket, etc.
• Experience in financial and scheduling model validation techniques.
• Certified Scrum Master or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of data viewing tools in Python, win/SQL, Power
  
  BI, Tableau or Grafana.
• Experience in development and/or operations of launch vehicles.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  Budgeting, cost analysis, and financial reporting.
• USG and Commercial launch proposal support including translation of estimates into IMSs upon award.
• MBA, or Project Management certification (PMP/Certified Project Manager).

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental…