Program Analyst, Senior

Spectraforce Technologies
United States, California, San Diego
Apr 12, 2025
Job Title: Program Analyst Shift Time: 8-5pm PST, could vary, depending on program needs. Location: San Diego, CA 92121 (Hybrid, 4 days) Duration: 7+ Months Job Description Overview Assists with program development and implementation through managing processes, procedures, and tools that improve efficiencies. A Program Analyst coordinates HW logistics across teams, including support of Chipset Program managers on timelines, budgets, risks, and priorities to achieve program progress. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: Regularly coordinates internal customers for large, complex programs to identify and meet hardware needs, track and communicate program status updates, and ensure compliance with processes and guidelines. Regularly coordinate with hardware logistic teams to plan and execute to program hardware needs. Prepares and discusses agenda for review board meetings under guidance of the Program Manager and documents key discussion points, project plan changes, and stakeholder needs. Contributes to and updates project plans to support Program Managers or Leads on large programs that include priorities, timelines, critical tasks, stakeholder identification for each task, and forecasted resource allocation. Collects, compiles, monitors, and maintains budget data, identifies potential issues, and communicates to the Program Manager. Tracks the progress and execution of complex deliverables to ensure deadlines are met, and identifies and escalates issues that may impact deadlines. Coordinates schedules and task assignments for complex projects by following proper project management practices with some guidance from the Program Manager. Identifies risks and issues in limited capacity that occur throughout the program lifecycle, communicates issues to the Program Manager, and identifies team members needed to determine a solution. Gathers, analyzes, and interprets data and program metrics using advanced tools and resolves inconsistencies. Maintains and updates databases using advanced aspects of data management tools (e.g., Excel, agile). Synthesizes moderately complex data and metrics into a summary of key trends, risks, and changes, and presents results into a report that can be easily understood by key stakeholders. Gathers feedback and implements improvements to assigned planning processes, tools, and methods. Level of Responsibility: Working under limited supervision. May help providing some supervision/guidance to others. Making decisions that may have moderate in impact to project and operations. Using verbal and written communication skills to convey information clearly and accurately to stakeholders May require basic negotiation and influence, cooperation, tact, and diplomacy, etc. Completing most tasks with multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; some planning and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively. Exercising creativity to draft original documents, imagery, or work products within established guidelines. Using deductive problem solving to solve moderately complex problems; most problems have defined processes of diagnosis/detection; some limited data analysis may be required. Able to work in a fast paced environment. Top 5 Required Skills: Planning / Scheduling Assess hardware demands and plan supply to meet them. Work within the program schedule milestone requirements Ability to work independently Be able to work effectively with minimal or no supervision. Self motivated to get the required tasks done independently Interpersonal Skills / Able to communicate effectively Be able to present updates and ideas as needed to blended team members. Be able to work with people of various personalities and cultures. Critical thinking Take initiative to resolve problems/issues. Be able to assess the situation and come up with solutions or seek help as needed Proficient in MS Office Excel - for common reporting metrics PowerPoint - for presentations Technologies: * Semiconductor Chip development * SW development Education Requirement * AA degree and above. B.S. degree in technical engineering field preferred. Required Years of Experience * 3-5 years of experience in Engineering development environment