What are the responsibilities and job description for the Master Scheduler - New Product Development position at Cirrus?
Job Summary
The Master Scheduler plays a critical role in the Program Management team, directly supporting Product Development projects working closely with cross-functional team members and the program manager to develop and maintain program schedules, identify critical path, and report program KPIs. Additionally, the Project Scheduler will provide training and standardization for all program scheduling activities.
Duties and Responsibilities/Essential Functions
- Work with program managers, project engineers, and integrated project team members to develop, integrate, and maintain project schedules
- Work closely with resource managers and program managers to assign work, identify resource gaps, and critical path items
- Provides timely reports to communicate upcoming deliverables and resource forecasts
- Acts as Enterprise administrator for MS Project (PWA) to develop and maintain calendars, lookup tables, resource pools, custom fields, templates, reports, filters, KPIs, user profiles/licenses
- Trains team members to program management standards and best practices to ensure consistent and compliant schedules across all projects
- Provides troubleshooting support for MS Project issues
- Develops and integrates scheduling infrastructure with JIRA, Power BI, or other systems for reporting and/or automated synchronization
- Authors and maintains scheduling standards
- Ensures schedule integrity
- Integrates and applies Earned Value methodology to forecast EAC, FTC and other schedule health metrics (CPI, SPI)
- Managing project schedules requires extreme attention to detail with a high level of accuracy required.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) or equivalent
- Minimum 7 years project scheduling experience in a product development, or engineering environment
- Minimum 5 years experience with MS Project (Desktop, & Enterprise)
- Experience with Primavera P6, and/or Deltek OpenPlan (desirable but not required)
- Experience with resource loaded schedules
- Thorough understanding of Earned Valued methodology and ability to apply EVM to program schedules and integrate with other systems (JIRA, ERP) to develop program health dashboards
- Bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.) from four-year college or university. (highly desirable but not required)
- Project coordination or project management experience preferred
- Proficiency in full Microsoft Office Suite including Power BI, and SharePoint
- Excellent communication skills. Ability to effectively communicate to all levels of the organization
- Self-motivated; able to work with minimal supervision
Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Optimize Work Processes
- Financial Acumen
- Customer Focus
Our Benefits: Cirrus provides a range of exciting benefits, including:
- 401(k) Plan: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% after 90 days, with 100% vesting.
- Employer-Paid Coverages: Group term life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, vision, dental, with additional dependent coverage options.
- Free Health Tracking: With rewards for meeting health goals.
- Generous PTO: 160 hours accrued within the first year.
- Employee Referral Bonus: For referring talented candidates.
- Career Development: Tuition reimbursement and professional growth opportunities.
- Exclusive Discounts: Access to partner and marketplace discounts.
- Community & Engagement: Company and employee clubs at various locations.
These benefits are designed to support your well-being, growth, and enjoyment at Cirrus!
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Work beyond 40 hours per week may be required.
Cirrus is dedicated to a drug free work environment promoting equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, national origin, color, age, disability, religion, pregnancy, veteran status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, receipt of public assistance, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.