Project Scheduler

Founded in 1918, Kearfott Corporation is a global Aerospace and Defense supplier with over a century of expertise in designing and manufacturing precision motion control products and inertial navigation components. Kearfott is a trusted leader, known for innovation, excellence, and reliability, serving customers worldwide in sea, land, air, and space navigation and guidance.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Project Leadership team to develop and maintain valid and effective schedules per the Generally Accepted Scheduling Principles (GASP) using MS Project.
• Request, collect, and update schedules including actual work, new work, and remaining work at a defined cadence.
• Generate Earned Value Management reports including Schedule Performance Index (SPI), Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled (BCWS), and Budgeted Cost of Work Performed (BCWP).
• Generate projected schedule impacts due to recovery plan or mitigation options.
• Generate project staffing plans.
• Support the Project Leadership team with critical/driving path analyses, staffing analyses, and PowerPoint reports on deliverable and/or phase gate performance as required.
• Create What-If schedules.
• Identify major milestones, phase gates, deliverables, decision points, and other project events.
• Perform continuous auditing of project schedules.
• Troubleshoot scheduling problems.
• Author planning documents which capture how each project’s schedule management is executed.
• Drive consistency of project schedules using established department processes and procedures.
• Maintain multiple schedules concurrently.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, or other relevant major or equivalent.
• 3+ years of project scheduling experience.
• Extremely proficient in MS Project, MS Excel, and MS Office.
• Experience with Earned Value Management methodologies.
• Experience in managing highly technical product developments preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills to foster a positive and collaborative team environment.
• Flexibility in work style to respond to multiple requests/tasks and handle sudden changes in priorities.
• Strong organizational, analytical, verbal, and writing skills.
• Must be a US Citizen.

Pay

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in New Jersey is $81,000 - $115,000. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal consistency.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Tuition assistance.
• Paid vacation and sick days.
• Paid holidays.
• 9/80 work week with every other Friday off.
• Monthly employee events celebrating workplace culture.