Master Scheduler

Peraton•Herndon, VA

4d•$135,000 - $216,000

About The Position

The Master Scheduler will support the Program Manager in communicating program plan and status. Working in this role, you'll be responsible for providing guidance to the program manager and team members regarding all aspects of program schedules. You’ll work closely with clients to develop and maintain an Integrated Master Schedule to understand and visualize numerous project and program dependencies and complexities. You’ll move quickly in a fluid environment to guide Agile development of a project roadmap, establish project milestones, and implement metrics to track progress. You'll thrive in this role if you consistently deliver high quality work, anticipate program needs, and independently drive projects to completion. Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and participation in an attractive bonus plan.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience, or a Master's degree with 6+ years of experience, or a PhD with 3+ years of experience. In lieu of a degree, 4 additional years of experience can be substituted.
Active Top Secret clearance required must be able to obtain SCI and polygraph.
Expertise using Microsoft Project and add-on software such as SSI Tools and audit software.
Ability to identify, track, and integrate risks into the IMS.
Ability to develop high level schedules and graphics utilizing MS Project to deliver to senior leaders and stakeholders.
Ability to facilitate client-facing meetings to review the IMS and discuss potential schedule slips and mitigation plans.
Experience tracking multiple high priority information technology projects.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues to groups outside of your team or those who are unfamiliar with the topic.
Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions and come up with out-of-the-box solutions.
Be proactive in providing feedback and be enthusiastic in sharing your knowledge with others.
Capable of prioritizing your own tasks and potentially the tasks of others while making sure deadlines are met.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Information Technology and Cyber projects.
Experience with traditional waterfall and Agile project management methodologies.
Project Management Institute (PMI) Scheduling Professional (SP) certification
Active TS/SCI with Poly

Responsibilities

Build and maintain a program-level IMS which includes major milestones and deliverables
Coordinate and maintain an integrated project and activity schedule across all offices.
Develop the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
Lead cross functional team members in the definition of project tasks, establish task durations, define relationships, impose constraints, collect weekly status
Propose processes that will aid Integrated Scheduling and understand the impacts of any changes to program delivery
Design and implement WBS coding structures and IMS coding structure
Define methodology and approach for implementing giver/receivers
Develop tier-one schedule (SSI Tools) tier-two schedules, and master schedule from a single database using Microsoft Project
Develop process, procedures, and strategy for implementing scheduling best practices
Provide on-the-job training and mentorship to the program staff with regards to scheduling
Support requests for ad hoc scheduling efforts for proposals, and programs “in need”