Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for applying scheduling theory to develop and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and related artifacts in compliance with scheduling best practices and applicable standards

• Implement program scheduling business rhythms, developing baseline schedules and associated artifacts to meet contractual/project requirements, and monitoring, analyzing, and reporting performance against baseline schedules to ensure that contractual, cost and schedule

• Strong communications skills with the ability to work with the functional areas to identify and maintain all schedule tasks and dependencies.

• In conjunction with the Project Manager, and with input from the cross-functional team, generate, publish and maintain an accurate a Master Schedule, using MS Project, showing the tasks and resources required to deliver on-time, per customer requirements and milestones.

• Work closely with PMO, development, operations and other project teams to develop detailed schedules, keep these schedules current and seamlessly integrated into the Master Schedule.

• Provide hands-on development of layered schedules detailing how a specific project is progressing including how the project contributes to overarching program requirements and objectives.

• Develop resource loaded and level project schedules using the performance work statement (PWS), technical proposal, WBS, and oral directions from senior project managers and technical leads.

• Develop and maintain linkages, dependencies and inter-dependencies with related projects.

• Ensure internal and external dependencies are documented and tracked for risk management.

• Identify major milestones, decision points, project life-cycle and other project events.

• Identify critical path and task dependencies.

• Set and maintain the baseline schedule and track all changes to the baselined schedule on a weekly basis.

• Perform ‘what if’ scenarios within the schedule.

• Develop schedule version control processes, policies, and procedures and ensure they are followed during the development and maintenance of schedules.

• Perform schedule estimating through elicitation of team members and other stakeholders to capture estimations of new work, updated actuals and remaining work.

• Champion and support continuous Risk Mitigation and Issue Management through schedule analysis.

• Generate schedule reports based on planned vs actual work.

Travel: May require occasional travel throughout the continental U.S.

* As a condition of employment, this position requires the candidate pass both a customer required medical and psychological screening

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 12 years of relevant experience, Master’s degree (or equivalent experience) with 10 years

• Must have a TS/SCI with Polygraph

• MS Project and/or other schedule management tools (e.g., MS Project Server/Deltek Open Plan)

• Scheduling theory and related best-practices (e.g., PASEG)

• Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) architecture (e.g., WBS or IMP based)

• Understanding of Critical Path

• Resource loading/management

• Schedule Status/Forecast Management/Business Rhythms

• Baseline Change Control

• Ability to work independently with overall responsibility for the Master Schedule

• Proven ability to work well within a team/collaborative environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.

• Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) Certification.