Master Scheduler

Job Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and manage the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for multiple complex projects using Microsoft Project or other government-approved scheduling tools.
• Integrate schedules from multiple projects, engineering teams, subcontractors, and functional organizations into a comprehensive program-level schedule.
• Establish and maintain schedule logic, dependencies, milestones, critical paths, resource loading, and schedule baselines in accordance with program requirements.
• Monitor schedule performance, identify variances from the approved baseline, perform schedule health assessments, and recommend corrective actions to maintain program objectives.
• Conduct critical path, schedule risk, resource utilization, and what-if analyses to support program planning, execution, and decision-making.
• Analyze schedule performance data to identify opportunities for process improvement, schedule optimization, resource balancing, and risk reduction.
• Collaborate with program managers, project managers, technical leads, finance, contracts, and government stakeholders to develop realistic schedules, milestones, dependencies, and execution strategies.
• Support program planning activities including baseline development, schedule updates, change management, integrated baseline reviews (IBRs), and contract modifications as required.
• Develop executive dashboards, schedule metrics, visualizations, and performance reports that communicate program status, schedule health, milestone achievement, and forecasted impacts.
• Support risk and opportunity management activities by identifying schedule risks, evaluating mitigation strategies, and assessing potential impacts to cost, schedule, and technical performance.
• Provide scheduling expertise and recommendations to program leadership regarding resource allocation, task prioritization, execution strategies, and program performance.
• Ensure scheduling processes comply with customer requirements, contractual obligations, organizational standards, and applicable industry best practices.
• Support customer meetings, program management reviews (PMRs), Integrated Product Team (IPT) meetings, technical interchange meetings, and executive briefings.

Qualifications

• Active Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Project Management, Engineering, Information Technology, Operations Management, or a related discipline. Equivalent experience may be considered.
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience developing and managing Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) supporting complex government, defense, aerospace, or enterprise technology programs.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience developing and maintaining resource-loaded Microsoft Project schedules for large, multi-disciplinary programs.
• Demonstrated experience integrating schedules across multiple projects, engineering teams, subcontractors, and functional organizations.
• Experience supporting complex information technology, enterprise networking, communications, space, or mission systems programs.
• Strong understanding of scheduling principles, critical path methodology (CPM), schedule risk analysis, dependency management, baseline management, and change control.
• Experience preparing executive-level schedule reports, dashboards, metrics, and program performance analyses.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, program leadership, government civilians, and military personnel.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high degree of accuracy.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, and Outlook.
• Ability to travel approximately 25% to support customer locations, mission partner engagements, and program execution activities.

Pay

$142,000.00 - $177,000.00

Schedule

Not specified