Technical Project Scheduler

Overview

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!  We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States. Our long-term client relationship with NASA has led to a need for a Technical Project Scheduler on the Mission Technical Integration Contract (MTIC) contract at Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX).

 

Building on more than four decades of experience in providing innovative integration solutions for government and commercial space programs, Barrios offers an extensive range of engineering, software, and related technology integration services in support of the aerospace community. As a woman-owned and operated small business, we are a people-focused company that supports professional development, while working to ensure that you maintain a healthy work-life balance. 

 

Barrios employees actively participate in the growth of the commercial spaceflight industry through our partnerships with companies leading commercial space development, as well as successfully supporting NASA as our primary government customer. Our long history supporting Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on the International Space Station, and now Commercial LEO, lays the groundwork for future missions to the Moon through our work on Orion, Gateway, and the Space Launch System. 

 

Responsibilities

The Technical Project Scheduler will:

• Support a highly skilled project team directly contributing to the NASA Gateway Program mission of providing a lunar orbiting platform in support of Beyond-Earth-Orbit Human Spaceflight and Lunar Exploration
• Coordinate with NASA contractor/technical leads and project management personnel to develop an
• maintain technical schedules
• Conduct schedule analysis and assessments to ensure schedules are structured properly with complete network logic that are capable of reporting critical path(s)
• Provide guidance and recommendations on schedule workarounds and recovery plans that enable effective decision making
• Perform Schedule Risk Assessments (SRA) and provide guidance and recommendations to NASA management
• Track schedule progress and develop custom reports/metrics
• Attend key project meetings, reviews, and present schedule status/metrics
• Conduct cost and schedule integration, ensuring budget and resource requirements for programs/projects are achievable
• Assess the impacts resulting from changes to project cost, schedule, or technical baselines
• Perform other duties as required

 

Qualifications

This position is posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate’s experience, position requirements and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised. 

 

Required Education/Experience/Skills:

• BS/BA degree from an accredited college or university

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• BS/BA degree from an accredited college or university, plus five (5) years of applicable experience

                                                                                -OR-

• BS/BA degree from an accredited college or university, plus five (10) years of applicable experience
• Excellent communication skills (in both written and verbal) and the ability to interface with various customers
• Demonstrated ability to work well in a team and independently on a dynamic development program
• Excellent data gathering, attention to detail, analytical and critical thinking skills
• Must be a self-starter, highly motivated and able to take initiative in completing tasks with minimal management direction
• Proficient in MS Office and MS Project
• Advanced MS Excel understanding
• Ability to understand technical concepts and designs and relate them to schedule inputs and impacts.
• Ability to create and analyze integrated master schedules (IMS)

 

  Preferences:

• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) f