Strategic Planning Director jobs in Pascagoula, MS

Overview

Job Title: Planning Manager

Location: Pascagoula, MS

Type: FTE

Summary

Planning Managers help oversee and perform key Planning and Scheduling activities for a Trident location and may facilitate Planning and Scheduling activities for multiple locations.  This typically involves supporting multiple programs, and the role also leads training, onboarding, and quality checks to promote best practices. The Planning Manager will fulfill the role of planner and/or scheduler for certain projects depending on size, scope and complexity.

The Planning Manager must exemplify excellent organization, resource, and time management. Strong interpersonal and communication skills, problem-solving and analytical abilities, and leadership initiative will all be needed to succeed in this role. Planning Managers and their team members form an integral part of the Project Management Organization (PMO) supporting Trident’s customer base.

Responsibilities

As requirements may differ based on scope, contract and customer, the Planning Manager is expected to:

• Understand the planning process and (work package and cost tracking) requirements by contract and customer and work to stand up supporting processes as needed.
• Define a work breakdown structure (work packages) for budget and cost tracking in alignment with the program manager and larger PMO team.
• Understand the scheduling requirements by contract (with the appropriate Project or Program Manager) and customer. Work with the project functional leads to support scheduling/planning needs by role (engineering, production, quality, procurement, etc.)
• Understand the standard project lifecycle, work breakdown structure, EVMS principles, the roles and interactions across different functional stakeholders (supply chain, engineering, program management, production) and have a clear awareness of contractual requirements and scope definition
• Support reporting requirements internally to Program Management and Senior Management on planning and scheduling strategy, key activities, issues, and opportunities
• Support reporting requirements externally with Program Management to align customer with status or to meet contractual requirements
• Work with location General Managers on manning requirements to support scheduled contractual obligations
• Ad hoc analysis, proposal support, and special projects may also be assigned outside of standard contractual planning and execution

Other duties may be assigned, including special projects.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• 2 to 5 years of management experience overseeing planning/scheduling, resource organization, or equivalent processes
• Familiarity/experience with understanding and monitoring project schedules, financials, and deliverables is required

Preferred

• Resource management on DoD programs
• Manufacturing/construction industry experience
• Maritime industry experience

Language Ability:

• Communicate effectively with both internal stakeholders and external customers, both in written and oral form.

• Effectually present information, write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.

• Read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
• Ability to respond professionally to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.

Math Ability:

• Able to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

• Able to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.

Reasoning Ability:

• Effectively define and resolve problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Can interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Computer Skills:

• Required:

• Microsoft Excel – Minimum of 2 years of experience
• Microsoft – Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, and Teams.
• Oracle – Primavera P6

• Additional experience with any of the following software is a plus:

• Autodesk – DWG TrueView and Navisworks.
• Microsoft Power Apps
• Microsoft Visio
• Any other enterprise scheduling software solutions