EVMS & Scheduling Analyst

Position Description Summary:
The Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and Earned Value Management System (EVMS) Surveillance Support position provides on-site project management, scheduling, earned value management, analysis, reporting, and production surveillance support for the U.S. Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter Project Resident Office in Mobile, Alabama. The role supports the Project Manager Representative and Business Manager by analyzing shipbuilder schedules, monitoring EVMS compliance, validating cost and schedule performance data, identifying program risks, preparing reports and presentations, and supporting schedule, cost, performance, and milestone tracking for the OPC program.

Responsibilities:
• Provide on-site project management support services to the Project Manager Representative.
• Plan, organize, and conduct EVMS surveillance activities to assess shipbuilder management control system compliance with EVMS guidelines.
• Develop and maintain processes and timelines for reviewing shipbuilder deliverables related to EVM and IMS.
• Review, assess, and consolidate findings related to shipbuilder EVM and IMS deliverables in a clear, cohesive, and concise manner.
• Analyze the shipbuilder’s Integrated Master Schedule and related mini-network or supplemental schedules for OPC production and delivery.
• Assess schedule compliance with contract requirements, DCMA standards, and ANSI-EIA 748 guidelines.
• Identify existing or potential cost, schedule, performance, and milestone risks.
• Assess the probability of the shipbuilder meeting contract milestones.
• Analyze IMS changes and provide assessments to Government customers.
• Perform quality assurance and monitoring of the OPC event-based IMS developed by the prime contractor.
• Maintain a copy of the shipbuilder-provided IMS for use as a planning and tracking tool.
• Monitor and validate key schedule elements, including baseline start, baseline finish, actual start, actual finish, duration, percent complete, predecessors, successors, and critical path.
• Maintain OPC physical progressing models using Microsoft Project, SharePoint, and Power BI.
• Audit shipbuilder-reported physical progress as directed.
• Assist in validating EVM variance reports, including Contract Performance Reports, Contract Funds Status Reports, Contractor Cost Data Reports, and IMS submissions.
• Reconcile cost, schedule, and performance reports against supporting data.
• Support Performance Measurement Baseline compliance reviews and Estimate at Completion analysis.
• Analyze conflicts, delays, and schedule difficulties and propose corrective actions or recovery approaches.
• Provide input to risk management efforts, including risk planning, identification, analysis, and mitigation.
• Develop reports and presentations detailing findings, issues, potential problems, and risks to cost, schedule, or performance goals.
• Provide recommendations related to project control, corrective action, and recovery methods.
• Support responses to assigned Task Manager and COR tasking.
• Evaluate data submittals, engineering change proposals, and requests for waiver/deviation for production impact.
• Conduct CDRL reviews and report findings to the COR.
• Generate contract correspondence, including letters and reports, for COR review.
• Conduct production surveillance at shipbuilder facilities and aboard OPC cutters under construction.
• Compare actual production status against the shipbuilder-submitted IMS.
• Prepare narrative reports, trackers, lists, spreadsheets, IMS analysis excerpts, and other documentation as required.
• Create and update the annual USCG OPC PRO program plan, including schedules, work packages, task books, WBS elements, milestones, and time-phased cost data.
• Track actual cost data, including labor and non-labor commitments, obligations, and expenses.
• Analyze planned versus actual cost and schedule data by program, funding document, cost account, work package, cost category, labor, and non-labor.
• Prepare scheduling materials, including Gantt charts, tables, milestone charts, and ad hoc scheduling reports.
• Notify appropriate project leads of upcoming schedule events and milestones.
• Attend meetings related to assigned tasks and prepare or present IMS/EVM status materials as required.

Skills & Experience:
• Minimum of five years of experience supporting project management and shipbuilding processes.
• Comprehensive knowledge of shipbuilding processes.
• Knowledge and skill in applying analytical and evaluative methods to organize, plan, conduct, evaluate, and administer EVMS surveillance activities.
• Ability to produce EVM reports, briefings, and presentations using contractor-provided EVM data.
• Ability to forecast and communicate current EVM and IMS status.
• Proficiency with stand-alone and enterprise versions of Microsoft Project and Primavera scheduling software.
• Knowledge of Integrated Master Schedule analysis, critical path methodology, baseline tracking, milestone analysis, and schedule risk assessment.
• Knowledge of Earned Value Management principles, EVMS surveillance, variance analysis, Performance Measurement Baseline compliance, and Estimate at Completion analysis.
• Familiarity with DCMA standards and ANSI-EIA 748 guidelines applicable to IMS and EVMS practices.
• Knowledge of economic, statistical, accounting, fact-finding, and financial analysis principles and techniques.
• Ability to analyze historical cost and schedule data, contractor performance reports, audit findings, and technical inputs.
• Ability to project cost and schedule performance trends, isolate disruptive factors, and estimate final contract cost.
• Knowledge of acquisition processes and contract administration service organizations such as DCMA and DCAA.
• Experience preparing reports, trackers, spreadsheets, presentations, contract correspondence, and analytical products.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Power BI.
• Ability to work in an active shipyard environment and conduct moderate walking and movement aboard OPCs under construction.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate with Government leads, technical stakeholders, shipbuilder representatives, and program personnel.

Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field or related technical/business field required.
• Substitution may be accepted with five or more years of relevant experience in addition to the required minimum years of experience, or EVM certification such as Earned Value Management Professional, Earned Value Management Director, or Earned Value Management Officer.

Security Clearance Required:
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required background investigation and access credentials necessary to perform work under the contract.
• Must be eligible for Common Access Card issuance.
• Must comply with DHS/USCG security, suitability, confidentiality, and non-disclosure requirements.
• Secret-level clearance eligibility is preferred based on the sensitive business, financial, and proprietary information associated with the requirement.