Project Scheduler

Project Scheduler

At Areté, we are on the forefront of utilizing innovative solutions, with great minds from all backgrounds, to help solve the nation's most complex security challenges. We strive for an inclusive, collaborative team environment that approaches differences as opportunities for innovation and excellence. As an employee-owned company, we foster an atmosphere that propels diverse career opportunities and professional growth.

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Areté has an immediate opening for a Project Scheduler in the Maritime Airborne Systems Sector. The Project Scheduler will work closely with program managers, technical staff, finance, and others on the team to plan, create, and manage project schedules to enable program decision-making and support delivery of quality products and capabilities to our customer(s). This will include preparation of program plans, risk management, monitoring program execution, reviewing labor and materials costs, operational budgets, and schedules;

tracking program deliverables and inventory; and recommending corrective actions such as schedule revisions, manpower adjustments, funding allocations, and work requirements as necessary. In partnership with the Program Finance team, the Project Scheduler will communicate schedule status and performance to the program team. The successful candidate will work in a fast-paced environment and must maintain a high level of accuracy. This position is based in our Northridge, CA office and is an exempt, non-supervisory, full-time position.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for providing guidance and training to planning / scheduling employees.
• Develop integrated master schedules using IMP, SOW, and WBS.
• Creates and tracks plans and schedules, performs risk analysis, identifies and resolves critical path and network logic conflicts.
• Working knowledge of Planning & Scheduling Excellence Guide (PASEG), Version 5.0, EVMS Standard (EIA 748-D), Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD), and Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR), and Integrated Program Management Data and Analysis Report (IPMDAR) strongly desired.
• Capability to perform Critical Path Analysis, Schedule Risk Analysis, and Schedule Metric Analysis - such as BEI, CPLI, SPI, etc.
• Experience with subcontractor schedule integration.
• Manages complex projects or processes with general oversight.
• Perform regular analysis of program schedules to evaluate program and enterprise wide resource needs through the integration of all program schedules including metrics on schedule status, critical path analysis, schedule variance analysis, network logic validation and program baseline maintenance including support of Earned Value Management performance metrics.
• Utilizes Gantt, PERT, milestone charts, earned value management and other project management techniques to gauge progress and identify performance variances to facilitate focus and intervention on critical areas.
• Ensures projects and program schedules and plans are integrated across company functional groups including finance, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality.
• Ensures compliance with internal program procedures and project control system guidelines.
• Work consists of making significant improvements of processes, systems, solutions, or products to enhance performance of job area.
• Provides measurable input of new products, processes or standards in operational plans that will have some impact on the achievement of overall functional results.
• Communicates within and outside of own function or business area and has responsibility for communicating with parties external to the organization (e.g., customers, vendors, etc.) when necessary.
• Conducts extensive investigation to understand root cause of problems. Problems span a wide range of difficult and unique issues across the function and/or business area.
• Attend and lead scheduling status reviews and conduct briefings with senior leaders which requires ability to communicate matters of importance to the function or business area.
• Works to support both large and small program needs in variable levels of scheduling involvement.

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