Senior Project Scheduler

Key Responsibilities

• Provide advanced level scheduling support for a customer test area.
• Maintain an overview of all projects on the site and provide guidance to improve and enhance schedules.
• Participate in training junior staff schedulers and overview of scheduling principles to both Contract and DoD personnel.
• Identify add-on software that will enhance Project reporting.
• Maintain, status, and control project schedules using MS Project to include documenting changes and revisions to the project schedule, gathering status information and inputting the data into the project schedule.
• Identify project milestones and activities necessary to achieve project objectives.
• Meet with all layers of support to ensure the schedules are tracking.
• Identify and document schedule and programmatic interdependencies among project activities and related external projects.
• Develop project logic networks and estimate, validate and analyze project activity sequencing, duration and resource requirements.
• Interface with project resource analysts to ensure correlation of project schedules.
• Conduct analyses of project schedules.
• Monitor contractor schedules and scheduling systems to ensure compliance with the Schedule Management Plan, SOW, and CDRLs.
• Perform schedule analysis to determine overall project performance, variances and risk areas.
• Follow Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and schedule hierarchy structure.
• Provide what-if scenarios, work around and recovery plans, critical path, and vertical and horizontal traceability.
• Compliance with AFRL regulations and procedural requirements is mandatory.
• Support test operations by receiving communications from the Test Area concerning their status in testing.

Qualifications

• Education: BS/BA + 5-7 years of experience or equivalent.