Business Analyst - Planner Scheduler
US Citizenship Required - 1 position
SRNS @ SRS, Aiken, SC
RFQ# 1270 / contract: 1 year w/ 2 opt years / Deadline 12/19/2024

SUMMARY:
Responsible for assisting or directly organizing, developing, analyzing, and maintaining project controls, financial analysis and estimating applications required to monitor established objectives, and to prepare status and management reports that identify variances in the work execution strategy along with recommending solutions. Provide management with the required cost and schedule analysis (including recommended corrective actions) to maintain cost and schedule control throughout the life cycle of the project or work activity.

Under limited supervision, performs basic Planning & Scheduling activities. Those activities include, but are not limited to:
-Identify critical path activities and recommend to management modifications needed to work plans to maintain schedule and to meet or improve milestone dates and other completion dates or mitigate potential problems or constraints to continued progress.
- Develop comprehensive information that defines general work requirements for a performing organization and unit. Develop broad activity logic and any required interfaces between activities on schedules.
- Implement and maintain division maintenance schedules with the designated work management system. Review the planning and scheduling of preventative maintenance activities to ensure equipment and system performance and optimal allocation and utilization of resources.
- Integrate schedule/status information into schedule software and develop visually oriented presentations that aid in communicating operational/project/maintenance status.
- Establish and/or implement standards and techniques for updating and monitoring schedule data needed for effective schedule control.
- Identify, analyze, and report potential or actual schedule deviations and recommend corrective action solutions for management consideration.
- Applies basic knowledge of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Cost Elements, and General Ledger to work activities.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Education/Experience:
A Master's degree in business/construction management / technical / engineering or a related area.
OR A
A Bachelor's degree in business/construction management / technical / engineering or a related area and 2 years of practical experience would be considered equivalent.
OR A
An Associate's degree and 6 years of practical experience would be considered equivalent. OR A
A high school diploma and 10 years of relevant experience would also be considered equivalent. Possesses considerable personal computer skills.
Requires proficiency in the use of automated accounting, budgeting, cost schedule
management and estimating systems as tools for performing required duties.
Entry level knowledge and understanding of cost and schedule control at the tactical level is necessary, along with a working knowledge of operations, maintenance, project management, project startup, construction and engineering.
Knowledge of materials planning, time and cost estimating may be required depending on the specialty assigned.
Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE “Q” security clearance.
Candidates who can perform system administration functions, including imports, exports, maintaining global dictionaries, user permissions, and creating new projects in Primavera P6 are preferred.
The Candidate should be able to provide application usage support to users of all skill levels. Preferred.
Understanding Acumen Fuse and knowing to administer the system and run custom reports is also Preferred.