Scheduler, Security

• Location CONFIDENTIAL,Ft. Meade, MD, 20755,United States
• Base Pay $79,000.00 - $85,000.00 / Year
• Job Category Scheduling, Operations , Security Administration
• Industry Security , Facilities Support, Government Contracting
• Employee Type FT Non-Exempt
• Manage Others No

Cen Core Group is seeking a
Scheduler to support a mission-critical security services program at a secure federal customer facility in Fort Meade, Maryland. This on-site role supports a high-tempo, 24/7, multi-site operation by building and maintaining staffing schedules, coordinating personnel assignments, identifying coverage gaps, supporting time and attendance controls, and maintaining accurate project-hour and no-show reporting. Employment is contingent upon contract requirements, funding, customer approval, and successful completion and maintenance of all required security and access processing.

• Receive, review, and process weekly staffing requirements; build complete assignments by project, location, date, time, and staffing level.
• Identify unfilled requirements and
  ** escalate coverage risks
  ** to Program Management and designated customer representatives.
• Support short-notice, emergency, after-hours, weekend, holiday, and out-of-cycle staffing requests.
• Coordinate shift and project transitions to maintain continuous coverage and prevent operational gaps.
• Monitor call-outs, late arrivals, project overruns, cancellations, visitor no-shows, and early releases; reassign available personnel when appropriate.
• Maintain current contact, availability, qualification, training, access, and assignment information for schedulable personnel.
• Coordinate with Site Leads, the Master Scheduler, Program Management, Recruiting, Security, Quality, and payroll/timekeeping support.
• Prepare weekly hours reports that include employee, date, project, labor-hour, remaining-hour, no-show, and call-out data.
• Ensure hours are captured in required billing increments and assigned to the correct project or funding line.
• Document schedule changes, notifications, approvals, cancellations, reassignments, and unresolved coverage risks.
• Support weekly on-call rosters and emergency notification lists.
• Protect employee, customer, project, and operational schedule information.

• Active
  Top Secret clearance with Full Scope Polygraph
  .
• U.S. Citizenship and ability to provide a valid U.S. Passport Book or Passport Card.
• Minimum of two years of experience in workforce scheduling, dispatching, operations coordination, timekeeping, call-center scheduling, security scheduling, or a related field.
• Ability to manage frequent changes, competing priorities, and short-notice staffing requests in a 24/7 operational environment.
• Strong spreadsheet, scheduling, data-entry, and written communication skills.
• High attention to detail when matching personnel qualifications, availability, location, project, and shift requirements.
• Availability to support assigned early-morning, evening, weekend, holiday, or on-call coverage as required.
• Ability to meet and maintain all customer, security, access, suitability, badging, briefing, training, and conduct requirements for the position.

• Experience scheduling 100 or more employees across multiple sites or projects.
• Experience in federal contracting, physical security, facilities support, construction support, logistics, or another shift-based operation.
• Experience using workforce management, timekeeping, dispatch, or scheduling software.
• Knowledge of overtime, cancellation, no-show, shift-transition, and project-hour controls.
• Experience supporting cleared personnel and access or training eligibility constraints.
• Precision and attention to detail
• Urgency and responsiveness in a 24/7 environment
• Resourcefulness and problem solving
• Schedule discipline and follow-through
• Customer service and professional communication
• Ability to manage multiple priorities
• Clear documentation and recordkeeping
• Cross-functional coordination and teamwork

• Primarily office-based role requiring sustained computer, telephone, and scheduling-system use.
• May require extended or nonstandard work hours during emergencies, surge requirements, weather events, transition periods, or other operational needs.
• Must be able to work on site in a secure facility and comply with restrictions on personal electronic devices.
• Must comply with all company and customer security, safety, information-protection,…