Master Scheduler

Job Summary

This position will provide scheduling support for the acquisition planning, controlling, and organizing of Air and Missile Defense Systems. Specific duties include developing, organizing, analyzing, and presenting a detailed Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) using industry standard tools (e.g., MS Project and Milestone Professional) for complex weapons systems.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Developing, organizing, and analyzing Integrated Master Schedules using industry standard tools like MS Project and Milestone Professional.
• Implementing integrated master scheduling best practices and working with program/project managers and multiple Integrated Project Teams to capture and sequence efforts, assign resources to activities, establish duration of activities, verify schedule horizontal and vertical traceability, confirm critical path validity, conduct schedule risk analysis, update status and progress of projects, provide metrics, and maintain the schedule baseline.
• Briefing Program Managers and the management board on schedule performance, calculating metrics, identifying critical paths, and providing recommendations.
• Interacting with a multitude of entities to cross-pollinate IMS data and identify resource deficiencies/gaps.
• Initiating and directing program plans using industry standard tools while providing project-coordinating expertise in support of complex activities supporting the US Warfighter, cross-program initiatives, new business (proposals), and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programs.
• Participating in defining requirements, elaborating work tasks, identifying milestones and logic relationships, creating “what-if/impact” scenarios within the schedule that inform program leadership.
• Performing (schedule) risk analysis, identifying and presenting options to resolve critical path issues and network logic conflicts; developing detailed and overarching schedules; and participating in analyzing effects upon various areas such as Engineering, Risk Management, Test, and Program Management.
• Attending meetings, working groups, and conferences to support schedule development or analysis.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, business administration.
• Five plus years’ experience developing schedules utilizing MS Project and Milestone Professional is required.
• Candidate must be a US Citizen and possess a Final Secret Clearance or meet the eligibility to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Scheduling, Weapons System Acquisition, Foreign Military Sales and Program Management and familiarity with Department of Defense Instruction 5000.02.
• Experience with MS Project Server.
• Knowledge of DCMA 14-point schedule assessment.
• Microsoft Office Master Certification is highly desirable.