Sr. Program Scheduler

The Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) and Missile Defense mission area at Leidos currently has an opening for a Sr. Program Scheduler. Are you ready to take on a challenge in helping protect the U.S. through Missile Defense?  In this mission we support trade studies, system engineering, model-based system engineering, software development and product testing and deployment.

Leidos is seeking a Sr. Program Scheduler who will be responsible for all aspects of creating and maintaining a resource loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) schedule to provide the basis for the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) time phased budget and estimate to complete cost data for this project.   In depth IMS Project skill 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, run reports, and generate various views.

This role reports through the Sector Scheduling Manager the larger enterprise-wide Leidos Corporate Earned Value Management (EVM) Center of Excellence (COE).  The Leidos Corporate EVM COE is a team leading and executing the core responsibilities of scheduling, planning, EVMS, the associated infrastructure and tools, implementations, training and surveillance for Leidos. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for applying scheduling theory to develop and maintain a resource loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) schedule as the basis for the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) in compliance with EVM standard EIA-748 and best practices as in the Planning and Scheduling Excellence Guide (PASEG).
• 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.
• In conjunction with the Project Manager, and with input from the cross-functional team, generate, publish and maintain an accurate a Master Schedule, using MS Project, showing the tasks and resources required to deliver on-time, per customer requirements and milestones
• Work closely with multiple industry and government performers to develop detailed schedules, keep these schedules current and seamlessly integrated into the Master Schedule.
• Develop and maintain linkages, dependencies and inter-dependencies with related projects.
• 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.
• Generate schedule reports based on planned vs actual work.

Required Qualifications:

• Candidate must be a US Citizen and possess and ability to obtain a Secret Clearance
• Bachelor's degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience in Earned Value Management (EVM) and IMS (Integrated Master Schedule)
• Advanced expertise using Microsoft Project
• Strong working knowledge of scheduling theory and related best-practices (e.g., PASEG), Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) architecture (e.g., WBS or IMP based)
• Proven working knowledge of Critical Path
• Proven working knowledge of implementing and managing a resource loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) schedule to provide the basis for the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) time phased budget and estimate to complete cost Schedule Status/Forecast Management/Business Rhythms
• Baseline Change Control and IMS configuration management.
• Ability to work independently with overall responsibility for the Master Schedule
• Experience with Scheduling for EVM + Agile and linking Microsoft Project and Jira.
• Proven ability to work well within a team/collaborative environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Scheduling for EVM + Agile and linking Microsoft Project