Master Scheduler

cheduling 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 customer’s 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, Master’s degree with 10-13 years
• Must have a TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
• MS Project and/or other schedule management tools (https://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 (https://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:

Pay Range $105,https://300.00 - $190,https://350.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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.