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Top Secret - Project Engineer
Bailey Information TechnologyAlexandria, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Jun 2025
About the role
Position: Project Engineer
Location: St. Louis, MO. Alexandria, VA, Chantilly VA
Clearance: Top Secret Security Clearance with ability to obtain SCI post hire
Level: T3
Job Description:
Bailey Information Technology, LLC is seeking a Project Engineer who is motivated by variety, is seeking a challenging environment for professional growth, and is interested in running large information technology projects. The Engineer uses critical thinking techniques that are applied to project planning process and across multiple projects where necessary. The Engineer ensures the project has reliable schedule estimates and achieves project goals on time and budget. The Engineer ensures projects have schedule, scope and risk controls implemented in accordance with Project Delivery Standard and in line with the requirements of our client’s processes. Additionally, the Engineer will provide our client’s management with quality, forward looking data and reporting.
Responsibilities:
Core Qualifications:
Location: St. Louis, MO. Alexandria, VA, Chantilly VA
Clearance: Top Secret Security Clearance with ability to obtain SCI post hire
Level: T3
Job Description:
Bailey Information Technology, LLC is seeking a Project Engineer who is motivated by variety, is seeking a challenging environment for professional growth, and is interested in running large information technology projects. The Engineer uses critical thinking techniques that are applied to project planning process and across multiple projects where necessary. The Engineer ensures the project has reliable schedule estimates and achieves project goals on time and budget. The Engineer ensures projects have schedule, scope and risk controls implemented in accordance with Project Delivery Standard and in line with the requirements of our client’s processes. Additionally, the Engineer will provide our client’s management with quality, forward looking data and reporting.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with Product Owners and Leads for the creation and maintenance of project / program schedules, including (but not limited to) tasks, dependencies, dates, milestones, resources and costs
- Understands boundary effectivity for systems and dependencies within and bordering project scope
- Performing schedule analysis on projects
- Responsible for scheduling and dependency management within and across assigned portfolios and providing follow-up checks
- Lead / participate in schedule audits
- Interfaces with Product Owners / Leads to gather data and adjust scheduling parameters
- Interface as required with all stakeholders on a project level and program level
- Create and maintain the scheduling database for all schedule templates and historic/completed, proposed, and active schedules for projects and programs
- Advise management on best use of coding / templates / reports within the scheduling software (Microsoft Project)
- Provides forward looking schedule analysis to leadership
- Evaluate project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas (Risks, Issues, Opportunities)
- Conduct analysis to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules
- Establish, maintain and report baseline and current schedule status in efforts to communicate clear, accurate and objective project and program progress updates
- Proactive communication of scheduling impacts to major milestones and critical path activities in accordance with the project/program timeline commitments
- Partner with project manager and leads in preparation for the project’s estimate-to-complete (ETC)
- Provide earned value support
- Perform schedule analytics and critical path management reviews to determine and communicate the quality and accuracy of the schedule
- Analyze and report anticipated and current schedule status for communication to proactively focus management’s attention of known or potential areas of concern or risk
- Attend meetings, assist in taking and relaying meeting notes, action items
- Adhere to our client’s Project Scheduler Standards
Core Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, MIS, Engineering or related with 4+ years of scheduling experience using Microsoft Project. May consider more years of relevant experience in lieu of degree
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