Program Scheduler - Military veterans preferred

Description

Leidos Defense Systems Sector is seeking an experienced Program Scheduler to support our Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2 program within the Land Systems Business Area.

This exciting role provides direct program scheduling support to critical programs and related portfolios of work. This position is located at our Mid-City Facility in Huntsville, Alabama, where you will be working with various production & manufacturing leads, Integrated Product teams, key program stakeholders, and an EVMS support Team; to improve program planning and execution while ensuring compliance with contractual requirements and company policy and procedures.

The Program Scheduler position will be an integral part of 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:

• Develop Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and related artifacts in compliance with applicable standards and policies such as EVM standard EIA-748 and industry best practices (e.g., PASEG, NDIA) in alignment with the mission of the EVM COE and in support of programs.
• Responsible for implementing practices to align the time phasing and plans for resources with the IMS to provide an integrated technical, schedule, and resource/cost baseline and forecast/ ETC for programs.
• Ability to create “what-if” scenarios within the schedule that inform program leadership
• Serve as a scheduling leader in assisting programs with issue identification & resolution solutions.
• Adherent to program scheduling business rhythms & controls
• Develop scheduling artifacts to meet contractual/project requirements
• Monitor, analyze, and report performance against baseline schedules to ensure that contractual, cost, and schedule objectives are met.
• Provide scheduling support to EVM COE and programs for internal and external audits and reviews and application of resulting corrective actions.
• Significant interface with Program Managers, Contracts, and Senior Technical Personnel, as well as other organizations.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of program scheduling experience. Additional years of program scheduling experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• Requires an understanding of programmatic scheduling theory and practice
• Must have expertise using Microsoft Project scheduling software
• US citizen is required and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.
• Must possess an understanding of scheduling theory including experience with:
  • Schedule status processes
  • Schedule health assessment (e.g., 14-Point Analysis)
  • Resource loading/management
  • Baseline change control processes
  • schedule execution metrics (BEI, CEI, CPLI, SV, SPI etc.)
  • Schedule Risk Assessment (SRA)/Monte Carlo Analysis and tools
  • Critical Path Method (CPM) and Margin/Float management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a Manufacturing/Production/Prototyping environment
• Intermediate expertise using Structured Solutions Inc. (SSI) Tools for Microsoft Project
• Scheduling Professional (SP) certification
• Experience w/ Milestones Professional
• Utilization of MS Project Macros

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Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: 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.

Pay Range:

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.