Integrated Master Scheduler

Leidos•San Antonio, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Leidos is seeking a highly qualified candidate for Integrated Master Scheduler role to work in our San Antonio, TX office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the Integrated Defensive Cyber Systems mission. The ideal candidate will have experience working on complex systems. This position is located near Lackland Air Force Base; all work is onsite. Primary Tasks: Responsible for applying scheduling theory to develop and maintain a resource loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) as the basis for the Integrated Defensive Cyber System (IDCS). 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 Generate, publish and maintain an accurate Master Schedule, 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.

Requirements

BA degree and 8 – 12 years of prior project / program management experience or Masters with 6 – 10 years of prior relevant experience.
Must be a US citizen and possess a minimum of a Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
Strong communications skills with the ability to work with the functional areas to identify and maintain all schedule tasks and dependencies.
In depth IMS Project skill is required to facilitate meetings and work one-on-one to ascertain project activities, resources, requirements, predecessors, successors, impacts, milestones, etc.
Proven working knowledge of MS Project and/or other schedule management tools (e.g., MS Project Server/Deltek Open Plan)
Strong knowledge of scheduling theory and related best-practices (e.g., PASEG)
Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) architecture (e.g., WBS or IMP based) experience
Proven working knowledge of Critical Path Baseline Change Control and IMS configuration management.
Ability to work independently with overall responsibility for the Master Schedule
Proven ability to work well within a team/collaborative environment.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience supporting Air Force Cyber or USCYBERCOM
Prior experience with defensive cyber
Prior experience with Confluence and Microsoft Project

Responsibilities

Responsible for applying scheduling theory to develop and maintain a resource loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) as the basis for the Integrated Defensive Cyber System (IDCS).
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
Generate, publish and maintain an accurate Master Schedule, 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.