Project Scheduler Point, NC,

Job Title:

Project Scheduler

Job Category:
Project and Program Management

Time Type:
Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
None

Employee Type:
Regular

Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Type of Travel:
Continental US

Responsible for supporting the Program Manager in establishing a resource-loaded integrated master schedule (IMS) and maintaining / updating the schedule for the program period of performance.

• Develop, maintain, status, and analyze the program's resource-loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) in Microsoft Project.
• Integrate schedules across multiple projects, technical disciplines, geographic locations, and program work streams into a consolidated program-level IMS.
• Establish and maintain logical predecessor/successor relationships, dependencies, constraints, milestones, calendars, WBS structures, and schedule coding.
• Lead recurring schedule status cycles with project managers, technical leads, and task owners to validate actual dates, remaining durations, forecast dates, percent complete, and upcoming activities.
• Perform critical path and near-critical path analysis and identify activities that may affect contractual or program milestones.
• Analyze baseline-to-current schedule variance and communicate significant changes, trends, and forecast impacts to program leadership.
• Evaluate schedule impacts resulting from technical issues, customer dependencies, logistics, site readiness, resource constraints, or changes in program execution.
• Conduct schedule health assessments using industry-standard scheduling practices and metrics, including DCMA 14-point schedule assessment criteria, as applicable.
• Identify schedule risks, issues, assumptions, and external dependencies and assess their potential impact on program execution.
• Develop what-if analyses, Courses of Action (COAs), schedule recovery options, and mitigation strategies to support management decision-making.
• Support formal schedule change-control processes, including evaluation and documentation of proposed schedule changes and impacts to approved baselines.
• Maintain schedule configuration management and version control to ensure traceability of approved changes.
• Track contractual deliverables, customer milestones, technical milestones, site-level milestones, and other key program commitments.
• Prepare schedule reports, milestone summaries, schedule variance analyses, look-ahead reports, and executive-level schedule briefings.
• Participate in internal and customer schedule reviews and communicate schedule status, risks, dependencies, and required decisions to Program Management and Government stakeholders.
• Coordinate across cross-functional teams to identify schedule conflicts, monitor action items, and support timely resolution of issues affecting program execution.
• Maintain schedule-management standards, including WBS integrity, naming conventions, calendars, status dates, logic, and other IMS governance requirements.
• Create, monitor, and analyze project schedules in accordance with standard of best project practice
• Track, analyze, and report information appropriately to allow the project teams to manage their projects and evaluate weekly reports
• Maintain the program’s resource loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and provide updates to the customer.
• Ensure accuracy of project schedules and performed version control
• Co-ordinate project schedules, tasks, meeting updates, and efficient distribution of reports
• Prepare, implement, and monitor scopes of work using Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for control and integrity
• Monitor projects’ progress, including identifying critical activities and reviewing forecasts and progress achieved to date
• Track baselines, perform what-if analysis, and develop contingency plans
• Perform coordination of cross-functional departments to identify project issues, monitor action items, and work with the project manager to ensure resolution.

• Bachelor’s Degree. Additional four (4) years of relevant experience allowed in lieu of degree
• Two (2+) years of IMS experience
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Project with Microsoft Project certification(s) preferred
• Demonstrated…