Program Master Scheduler

Our New Product Development team is seeking a Master Scheduler. This role plays an essential role on a team that builds and maintains comprehensive program plans and schedules. This includes Integrated Master Plans and Integrated Master Schedules that guide program execution and provide the baseline from which performance is measured. In this position, you will collaborate closely with Program Managers and cross functional partners, engaging with team members as needed to support successful program delivery. Working alongside the Program Finance Manager, the Master Scheduler communicates program status and performance in both schedule and cost and provides thoughtful forecasts for future performance.

Key Responsibilities

Create horizontal and vertical integration of program plans and schedules across company functions including finance, engineering, procurement, operations, manufacturing, and quality

Develop, validate, and maintain schedules for assigned projects and programs. Provide resource management, support schedule process and procedure development for PMO activities, and assist with desktop metric oversight and reporting

Support Work Breakdown Structure configuration and IPT assignment. Ensure schedule alignment with Responsibility Assignment Matrix requirements for both summary and detailed control account planning

Update the Contract Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary when required

Build and maintain the Program Master Schedule for post award activities

Update and maintain project schedule fields as defined by the company Field Definition table

Maintain and adjust the baseline through the Baseline Change Review process

Perform schedule health analyses, generate schedule quality metrics, and identify and resolve issues

Prepare Schedule Analysis Reports including critical path, top level summaries, resource management, milestones, and slack trend reports

Ensure management understanding of network logic, Gantt views, pert charts, milestone lists, and resource information

Validate schedules as assigned to meet DCMA fourteen-point criteria, defined field configurations, CDRL and SDRL requirements, and earned value standards. Provide guidance and instruction to project teams to strengthen performance

Establish a schedule development calendar for assigned projects, capturing status cycles, report generation, required deliveries, and archival of the Integrated Master Schedule

Provide technical support for work package breakdown across programs and help oversee PMT assignments

Support Integrated Baseline Reviews and Schedule Resource Analysis reviews as needed

Deliver schedule training to department colleagues, functional groups, and program teams

Develop and maintain Earned Value analyses and reports. Assist Program Management and Finance with analysis and corrective actions related to Earned Value data

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Minimum of 4 years in a related role/function

Strong expertise with MS Project, including integration of multiple resource loaded schedules into a single master schedule

Proficiency with MS Office and MS Teams, using data driven variance analysis and resource tracking to inform stakeholders

Ability to assemble and present data and complex subjects in a clear and meaningful way to audiences outside the Master Planning and Scheduling team

Strong functional management skills, including clear expectation setting with internal and external customers

Commitment to challenging and advancing knowledge of industry practices, standards, and company policies

Clear communication skills and the ability to explain issues and resolutions in both written and verbal formats

Experience preparing presentations for senior leaders that include metrics and clear explanations

Ability to collaborate with engineering, procurement, operations, and other functions to understand and reflect how and when scope will be performed

Ability to build productive relationships with schedule stakeholders including internal and external customers

Experience with program schedule forecasting and analysis, especially in a United States Department of Defense program environment

Interest in expanding professional skills and capabilities

PMI Scheduling Professional certification or PMI Project Management Professional certification

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