Description: Job Title: Lead Program Scheduler Job Code: SAS20231901-95914 Job Location: Palm Bay, FL Job Description: This position is responsible for detailed analysis of the master program schedule, including status, performance, network logic, and critical path. Essential Functions: * Creates and tracks plans and schedules, performs risk analysis, identifies and resolves critical path and network logic conflicts. * Senior professional with strong knowledge of job area and in-depth knowledge of project management. Manages complex projects or processes with general oversight. * Typically, responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees. * Communicates within and outside of own function to gain cooperation on operational processes, practices, and procedures. * Makes moderate to substantial improvements to systems and processes. * Contributes to achievement of departmental goals and operating plans with direct impact on the departmental results. * Performs schedule analysis in support of assigned programs or projects. * Utilizes Gantt, PERT, milestone charts, earned value management and other project management techniques to gauge progress and identify performance variances to facilitate focus and intervention on critical areas. * Prepare, develop and coordinate integrated master plan and integrated master schedule (IMP/IMS) using MS Project, Excel and PowerPoint * Ensures projects and program schedules and plans are integrated across company functional groups including finance, engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality. * Ensures compliance with internal program procedures and project control system guidelines. * Work consists of making significant improvements of processes, systems, solutions, or products to enhance performance of job area. * Provides measurable input of new products, processes or standards in operational plans that will have some impact on the achievement of overall functional results. * Communicates within and outside of own function or business area and has responsibility for communicating with parties external to the organization (e.g., customers, vendors, etc.) when necessary. * Explains, interprets, and gains cooperation on policies, procedures and practices. * Contributes to the development of goals for the department and planning efforts (budgets, operational plans, etc.). * Establishes short-term operational plans with measurable contribution to function or business area results. * Conducts extensive investigation to understand root cause of problems. Problems span a wide range of difficult and unique issues across the function and/or business area. * Develop new concepts or standards. * Attend and lead scheduling status reviews and conduct briefings with senior leaders which requires ability to communicate matters of importance to the function or business area. * Works to influence others to accept individual or team's views or practices and changes to concepts, practices, and approaches. * Participate in schedule training, engineering and program excellence organization. * Works to achieve operational targets within job area with some impact on department results. Qualifications: * BS/BA Degree in Finance or Business with 4 years' relevant experience or an MA/MS with 2 years of relevant experience. Associates Degree and a minimum of 8 years of prior related experience. * Three years of MS Project Experience. * Experience creating and/or maintaining an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and any Supporting Schedules on assigned projects/programs; creating and presenting project-level reports, presentations and deliverables that reflect risk and status to program management and senior management relating to the IMS is required. Preferred Additional Skills: * Monte Carlos Risk Analysis (Schedule Risk Analysis) * Structured Solutions - SSI tools management * Program management and or Coordination, SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle) process * Critical thinking and problem solving, attention to detail and quality of product deliverables. * EVMS - Earned Value Management Systems. Security Clearance: 2, TS/SCI