Job ID: 729347BR Date posted: Jun. 03, 2026
Description:WHAT WE'RE DOING
At Lockheed Martin, we are passionate about innovation and integrity. We believe that by applying the highest standards of business ethics and forward-thinking, everything is within our capacity – and yours as a Lockheed Martin employee. Lockheed Martin values your skills, training, education and background.


THE WORK
As a Sr. Staff Level Integrated Program Planner you will work in a cross-functional team, collaborating with the business and delivering real-time solutions to our clients. You will interface with program management, finance, our customers, functional leads, and control account managers (CAMs). This career advancing role will give you exposure within the aerospace industry and promote career growth within the field. This position will also serve as a proposal planner, new award/baselining planner, and quality/compliance lead. This position will also serve as a lead planner guiding and mentoring other members of the planning team.

Key Responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to:
• Ensure status progress is collected, input, analyzed, and reported on accurately and timely
• Ensuring the Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) are networked in order to perform Critical Path analysis and reconciliation.
• Contribute to the completion of weekly/monthly detailed analysis for major Program Events.
• Assist in analyzing key intermediate milestones in order to provide status updates to the Integrated Master Plan (IMP).
• Coordinating with major suppliers to collect and deliver current schedule information.
• Being responsible for schedule baseline management and control as well as assisting in weekly/monthly variance analysis.
• Assist in proposal generation, costing and cost/schedule integration. Building IMS's for proposal submissions. Generating BOEs for proposals.
• Performing required schedule assessments (SRA's) using Risk Management tools.
• Preparing and presenting briefing materials to management and customers in an efficient and professional manner.
• Reviewing IMS's for quality issues and DDM metrics to ensure compliance with best practices and DCMA standards.


WHO YOU ARE
- Program planning provides an outstanding perspective on the challenges of building helicopters.
- In this position the candidate will acquire insight into the inner workings of helicopter manufacturing through interactions with Finance, Contracts, Proposals, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Supportability.
- Ideal candidates have UH/HH-60 Aircraft planning experience and are able to step in quickly and provide scheduling analytics and expertise to the program team.
- This position is located in Stratford, Connecticut and will serve as a Sr. Staff planner on our Aerostructures Product Center team supporting the operations and logistics of manufacturing of our UH/HH-60 Helicopter.


WHO WE ARE
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, is a world leader in the aerospace industry. We pride ourselves on our commitment to innovation, excellence, and delivering cutting-edge solutions to our customers. Our team is passionate about aviation and dedicated to creating advanced helicopters and aircraft that meet the highest standards of quality and performance.


WHY JOIN US
Do you want to be part of an environment that encourages and supports employees to think big, perform with quality and build incredible products? We provide the resources, inspiration and focus - if you have the resourcefulness and courage to work hard, Then we want to build a better tomorrow with you. Come and experience your future!

Benefits: In addition to the responsibilities highlighted above we offer extensive benefits to include competitive 401k, insurance and a new 4/10 schedule. We remain an equal opportunity company.
Basic Qualifications:
- Extensive Program Performance Management knowledge, EVMS experience and integrated cost & scheduling tool implementation.

- Schedule Metrics generation & reporting.

- Previous experience in either parts or aircraft scheduling

- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university

- Previous planning experience required
Desired Skills:
- Ability to prepare and present various types of reports to all levels of Management. Strong communication & presentation skills.
- Strong Organizational skills. Detail oriented.

- Excellent command of written and verbal communication skills.

- Ability to apply organizational, planning, management, problem solving & execution skills to multiple projects simultaneously.

- Effectively interface w/ senior leaders in the organization.

- UH/HH-60 program experience.

- Extensive knowledge of developing & maintaining Integrated Master Plans (IMP) & Integrated Master Schedules (IMS).

- Experience on full criteria reportable programs. (IPMR, IPMDAR).

- Experience with DCMA Compliance and Surveillance.

- Ability to consolidate detailed schedule data into management level reporting.

- Expertise with Data Driven Metrics (DDM)

- Open Plan, PM Compass, Acumen, and Viper Skills

- Excel skills (V-Lookup, Pivot Tables, etc.)

- Cost and Schedule integration w/ regard to EVMS

- Risk & Opportunity Management

- Ability to multi-task and willingness to take on additional responsibilities as needed.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, work complex issues, and meet deadlines.

- SAP Work order management/MRP Experience
Clearance Level: None
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: RMS
Relocation Available: No
Career Area: Program Planning
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First