Project Planner

Description

The Defense Systems Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Project Planner to work in our Ridgecrest California office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping with the AEWTTR mission. In this mission we provide engineering support for design, modification, and maintenance of ground radar and associated devices for the Navy's Aircrew Electronic Warfare (EW) training capability. Our organization designs, manufactures, integrates, and provides depot level support for a wide variety of EW threat simulation systems that are part of the training infrastructure that ensures our Navy Aircrews are the most effective.

The AEWTTR Project Planner will utilize project management tenets to control, manage, and support AEWTTR projects for the Program Manager and senior leadership in support of the AEWTTR program's mission. You will coordinate project execution by defining objectives, creating project timeline & WBS, identify resources, monitoring progress, and ensuring project success.

• Interfacing with project stakeholders to maintain the project schedule and ensure mission milestones are achieved.
• Maintain project and integrated Master Schedule (s) for ongoing projects and technical documentation.
• Develop new schedules based on mission requirements, coordinating and integrating related requirements to support operational needs
• Identify project risks and opportunities and enter items in program's Risk Management Tool (RMT)
• Host the monthly Risk and Opportunity Review, update risk status, and track associated actions to closure
• Create comprehensive documentation across a project which may include a timeline, a budget, key information, tasks, and resources.
• Develop program plans, briefs, procedures, and processes
• Exercise judgment within generally defined practices and policies
• Deliver CDRLs and maintains program's Integrated Data Environment
• Perform administrative duties in support of program objectives, as needed

Basic Qualifications:

• Requires high school diploma or equivalent and 2-3 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience working with teams in a dynamic, complex operational environment.
• 2+ years of prior experience with Project Management which includes managing technical projects, project planning, project proposals, financial analysis, etc.
• Ability and willingness to work onsite in Ridgecrest CA.
• Ability and willingness to obtain & maintain a DoD Secret clearance in the future. (U.S. Citizenship is required)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with outlook, teams, and excel, but not required.
• Active & current DoD Secret clearance is preferred.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.