Scheduler, Management

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.

As a Scheduler with AMERICAN SYSTEMS you will have the opportunity to do the following:

• Develop, maintain, and manage complex Microsoft Project schedules for technical programs.
• Build and maintain integrated master schedules and supporting detailed schedules aligned with program scope, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Ensure schedules are structured to support progress tracking, forecasting, critical path analysis, and earned value management assessments.
• Coordinate with program managers, technical leads, functional managers, and control account managers to define activities, durations, logic, constraints, milestones, and resource assumptions.
• Status schedules on a recurring basis using input from responsible leads and team members.
• Analyze schedule performance, identify variances, assess impacts, and support development of corrective actions and recovery plans.
• Perform schedule quality checks to ensure compliance with scheduling best practices, contract requirements, and organizational standards.
• Maintain schedule baselines and document changes through formal change control processes.
• Support monthly or periodic performance reporting, including schedule metrics, milestone status, critical path analysis, and forecast completion dates.
• Prepare schedule products and data for program reviews, customer briefings, and internal management reporting.
• Support earned value management activities by ensuring schedule data is properly aligned with work scope, status methods, and performance measurement needs.
• Coordinate schedule integration across projects, task orders, subcontractors, and functional work streams, as applicable.
• Identify and communicate schedule risks, logic issues, resource conflicts, and data anomalies.
• Support audits, assessments, and data calls related to schedule performance and schedule quality

THIS HYBRID POSITION REQUIRES 3 DAYS OF WORK IN THE OFFICE AND 2 DAYS REMOTE PER WEEK

• Bachelor's Degree and two (2) to four (4) years of experience; a combination of education and experience can be used in lieu of degree
• Secret Clearance
• Experience scheduling facilities and services for multiple agencies
• Minimum five (5) years’ experience working with Microsoft Office software and Internet usage
• Ability to coordinate several events simultaneously and the ability to multi-task
• Ability to work independently at times and make appropriate decisions under time constraints
• Skills in communication, public speaking, providing constructive feedback and handling complaints