Master Scheduler

Master Scheduler

Description

Leidos is seeking a Master Scheduler and Planner for a new Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) program. The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of creating and maintaining an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for the enterprise program and multiple individual sites. The Scheduler must have high-level MS Project skills. They will be required to facilitate meetings and work one-on-one to ascertain project activities, resources, requirements, predecessors, successors, impacts, milestones, etc. They will construct and maintain the MS Project plan daily, distribute weekly, run reports, and generate various views.

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
• Generate, publish and maintain an accurate a Master Schedule, using MS Project and the customers tools, showing the tasks and resources required to deliver on-time, per customer requirements and milestones
• Work closely with PMO, SE&I site and team leads, and external organizations 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
• 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

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 12-15 years of relevant experience, Masters degree with 10-13 years
• Must have a TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
• MS Project and/or other schedule management tools (e.g., MS Project Server/Deltek Open Plan)
• Understanding of Critical Path
• Resource loading/management
• 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:

• Scheduling theory and related best-practices (e.g., PASEG)
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) Certification
• Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test (SEIT) using the NSIS process framework

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.