Program Scheduler

About the Role

As a program integrated master scheduler and coordinator, you will coordinate, plan, schedule, and supervise program tasks and milestones throughout the production process or program lifecycle using Microsoft Project and the Microsoft Suite of tools. You will ensure that all organizational processes and schedules are followed to attain efficiency, providing planning administration including scheduling, performance monitoring, analysis, reporting, personnel planning, resource management, and capacity planning.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage comprehensive project schedules, ensuring all tasks are planned and organized effectively to meet deadlines.
• Assess project length and allocate resources efficiently to optimize productivity and project outcomes; develop resource-loaded schedules as a CDRL deliverable.
• Track program progress, identify potential delays, and implement corrective actions to keep projects on schedule and within budget.
• Lead planning and development of schedules.
• Establish demand and planning time fences.
• Control planning data, lead times, order quantities, etc.
• Ensure the company achieves and maintains the highest possible customer rating for satisfaction for on-time delivery.
• Drive, promote, and develop positive communication with Operations to improve processes.
• Recognize marketplace requirements and create an environment where effective scheduling logic produces realistic master schedules and customer satisfaction.
• Monitor and maintain the accuracy and integrity of MPS input information (forecasts, order reconciliation).
• Develop baseline execution schedules, maintain in-work schedules, perform critical path analysis and what-if planning, and support the delivery of CDRL deliverables.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience developing, managing, and integrating large project schedules to create an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) / Integrated Master Plans (IMP).
• Experience monitoring the execution of milestones, key events, and significant accomplishment criteria, and supporting multiple project and program schedules to effectively communicate across all levels in the portfolio.
• Experience preparing and presenting briefings on schedule status and health to varying levels of management, and performing schedule, scope, and cost risk analyses to determine probabilistic schedule and cost at project completion.
• Demonstrated experience on programs with responsibility for development and execution of the IMS, including setup, baseline management and update/maintenance, schedule analysis, critical path analysis, SRAs, and CDRL deliveries.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite tools to coordinate with the risk management lead, acting as a trusted advisor using both traditional and innovative analysis methods to develop guidance and roadmaps for risk mitigation and opportunity realization.
• Knowledge of common scheduling and data analysis tools and methodologies, including advanced-level operation of Microsoft Excel and Project.
• Knowledge of schedule health metrics, including EVM, DCMA 14 Point Assessment, and statistical testing models.
• Familiarity and experience with Deltek Costpoint.
• Experience with SharePoint and presentation-level schedules, including integration of schedules into PowerPoint briefings.
• Understanding of C5ISR systems and architectures (nice to have).
• Experience in DoD acquisition (or similar) and program management processes.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, team-building, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including presentation skills.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

• Work is performed in an office setting.
• May occasionally be required to lift moderately heavy objects (up to 25 pounds) during the course of the workday.