Senior Project Scheduler

Applied Research Solutions (ARS) is seeking a Senior Project Scheduler to support the Hanscom National Integration (HNI) team under the EPASS contract at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, MA. This role will provide project scheduling and planning expertise across complex Air Force programs, helping teams develop, maintain, and analyze integrated schedules while tracking milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and overall program progress.

This is a full-time, on-site position located at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Why Work with us?

Applied Research Solutions (ARS) is respected as a world-class provider of technically integrated solutions as we deliver premier talent and technology across our focused markets for unparalleled, continuous mission support.

Awarded a Best Places to Work nominee since 2020, ARS recognizes that without our career- driven, loyal professionals, we would not be able to deliver state-of-the-art results for our mission partners. We firmly believe that prioritizing our employees is of the upmost importance. We provide a culture where our employees are challenged to meet their career goals and aspirations, while still obtaining a work/life balance.

ARS employees are motivated through our industry competitive benefits package, our awards and recognition program, and personalized attention from ARS Senior Managers.

Duties include, but not limited to:

• Develop, maintain, and manage integrated project schedules supporting complex Department of Defense and Air Force programs.
• Work closely with program managers, government stakeholders, technical teams, functional leads, and subcontractors to develop realistic and executable project schedules.
• Establish and maintain schedule baselines, milestones, activities, dependencies, resources, and critical path information.
• Monitor schedule performance and identify potential delays, schedule conflicts, resource constraints, and risks that may impact program objectives.
• Perform schedule analysis to identify critical and near-critical activities, logic gaps, float erosion, and other indicators of potential schedule impacts.
• Track program milestones, deliverables, contract requirements, and major activities to ensure commitments remain aligned with established program objectives.
• Develop and maintain Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), Integrated Master Plans (IMP), and supporting detailed schedules as required.
• Coordinate schedule updates with program teams and incorporate progress, changes, and approved adjustments into the program schedule.
• Provide schedule status reports, briefings, metrics, and analysis to program leadership and government customers.
• Support development of schedule-related inputs for program reviews, management briefings, acquisition documentation, and other program deliverables.
• Analyze the potential schedule impact of program changes, emerging requirements, technical issues, and resource constraints and communicate findings to program leadership.
• Support risk and opportunity management by identifying schedule-related risks and developing mitigation strategies and recovery plans.
• Coordinate with cost, financial, engineering, logistics, configuration management, and program management functions to ensure schedule information remains consistent with overall program planning.
• Maintain schedule data integrity and ensure schedules are developed and updated in accordance with established program and contract requirements.
• Support Earned Value Management (EVM) activities by coordinating schedule information and ensuring alignment between schedule progress, planned work, and program performance data.
• Participate in Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBRs), program reviews, milestone reviews, and other customer meetings as required.
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