Project Scheduler

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

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* The Opportunity:

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* 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.

** Responsibilities:*
* + 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.

** Qualifications** :

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Required:

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+ Bachelor's Degree. Additional four (4) years of relevant experience allowed in lieu of degree

+ Two (2+) years of IMS experience

+ Advanced knowledge…