Schedule Manager

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Gather data, establish, and maintain a Project Master Schedule for an Army Aviation Acquisition Program utilizing Primavera.
• Coordinate and align inputs from participating groups.
• Conduct schedule analysis and assessments to ensure schedules are structured properly with complete network logic, are capable of reporting critical path(s), and follow industry scheduling best practices.
• Conduct trend analysis, baseline vs current, margin assessment, cost/schedule risk assessments, duration compression and health checks.
• Track schedule progress and developing custom reports/metrics.
• Provide guidance and recommendations on schedule work-arounds and recovery plans for customers to make effective decisions.
• Conduct cost and schedule integration, ensuring budget and resource requirements for programs/projects are realistic and achievable.
• Assess the impacts resulting from changes to project cost, schedule or technical baselines.
• Update at specified intervals the current status of the project, variances and related actions.
• Obtain from participating groups monthly progress updates to schedule activities and consolidate into the project master schedule.
• Interpret the results of the subsequent analyses, identifying critical activities and their effects on the schedule and validate that remedial actions will meet customer requirements.
• Report the project status to the Stakeholders and develop “what if” scenarios and recovery plans as needed.
• Maintain and operate change control process.
• Participate in the Risk Management process and manage schedule related mitigation and avoidance actions.
• Conduct Earned Value Management reporting and monitoring on a monthly basis.
• Analyze performance data and prepare Estimates at Completion (EACs).
• Support the annual PPBE process internal to the Project Office.
• Provide expert guidance and implementation and management of integrated scheduling tools.
• Preparation of written and verbal reports to management regarding cost schedule variances.
• Conduct weekly IMS reviews.
• Participate in change control boards and other meetings as required to ensure proper resource planning and forecasting.

Required Skills/Experience

• 8 years of experience in developing and executing Master Schedules for acquisition programs.
• Must be fully trained/experienced in Primavera as a scheduling tool.
• Must be experienced in EVM and establishing EACs.
• Experience in managing life cycle support strategies and the required acquisition documentation.
• Knowledge and experience managing, planning, and executing complex projects.
• Ability to support complex acquisition development projects.
• Work effectively with others and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Teamwork focused on conducting studies, logistics and technical projects, or problem resolution.
• Strong interpersonal relations skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Expert level of familiarity with Microsoft Office products.