Maintenance Project Scheduler; NWS

Job Title:
Maintenance Project Scheduler (NWS 00858)

North Wind Services is actively seeking individuals who can contribute to national security within the science, technology, and engineering fields as part of our supplemental labor team at vital federal research and development installations supporting the Department of Energy. NWS has an established history of contributing to the success of their customer's mission. Available employment opportunities may range from administrative and logistical support to advanced technical positions.

Qualified applicants must be a US citizen, at least 18 years of age, and able to meet pre-employment requirements including any required physical, drug screen, and/or background investigation to satisfy clearance requirements from the Department of Energy.

Successful candidates will be employees of NWS, a premier government contractor charged with employing highly motivated and well-qualified personnel who can advance the missions of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. Though employed by NWS, the employee will take day-to-day directions from technical personnel employed directly by the research laboratories. Pay, benefits, Human Resource, and Employment Management functions are provided by NWS.

The Work Planning & Control Office within the Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) Directorate are seeking multiple Maintenance Project Schedulers. The successful candidate will work with supervisors and managers from across the Laboratory to provide advanced scheduling of complex programmatic and maintenance projects. The Scheduler ensures alignment of the workweek plan with business performance goals, priorities, and objectives. As part of the training curriculum the selected Scheduler will be trained and qualified as a Maintenance Work Planner.

These positions will be filled at either level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level.

• Review work requests and prepare job scope definitions and schedule. Collaborate with and lead planning teams.
• Plan advanced facility and infrastructure-related work activities, including maintenance, repairs, replacements, minor modifications, construction.
• Optimize resources to allow for emergent workload with minimum impact to schedule.
• Determine critical and near critical path activity sequences based on a variety of factors and planning inputs.
• Apply trend analysis in the master schedule to identify resource needs, work delays, and propose solutions.
• Build project schedules using milestones, timelines, and applying schedule logic and constraints.
• Lead meetings to negotiate and mediate timelines and schedule discrepancies between key stakeholders for a mutual desired outcome.
• Manage the scheduling process from start to finish and report the progress using scheduling metrics, delay codes, and resource histograms.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, engineering technology, project management, or an equivalent combination of education and related technical experience.
• Experience working as a workweek manager, scheduler, project manager, work planner and/or operational experience.
• Significant knowledge of work scheduling theories and practices with experience in schedule set up, baselining, monitoring, and reporting.
• Advanced experience in Primavera P6 or other scheduling/planning tools (MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities, and to apply project management principles to organize, coordinate, sequence, and accomplish work.
• Advanced analytical and technical writing skills with experience developing technical documents such as work procedures, work instructions, specifications, Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) procedures, Interlock procedures. Experience drafting work packages, including Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs).
• Excellent facilitation, leadership, and communication skills necessary to lead and facilitate multi-disciplinary teams of technical experts through technical discussions, including conflict resolution skills necessary to resolve differing opinions.

• Prior experience in Work Management, which includes scheduling, coordination, work sequencing, and resource loading.
• Advanced knowledge of technical work with extensive nuclear and/or explosive safety/safety basis requirements.
• Experience applying various Human Performance Improvement tools for both individuals and work teams, (e.g. procedure use and adherence).

• Pre-Placement Medical Exam: A job-related pre-placement medical examination may be required.
• Pre-employment drug test:
  External applicants selected for this position will be required to pass a post offer, pre-employment drug test.
• Anticipated Government Clearance Level: Q (position will be cleared to this level). The selected applicants…