Schedule Analyst, Senior
About The Position
KAIROS, Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior Scheduler to develop and maintain project schedules using Microsoft Project. The position is contingent upon award and requires a strong understanding of scheduling fundamentals, effective written and verbal communication, and comfort working with groups of stakeholders with varying levels of experience and authority. The role includes integrating project and vendor schedules into master schedules; developing Work Breakdown Structures and Integrated Master Plans; analyzing critical paths, schedule variances, progress, and change impacts; resource loading and leveling; and producing schedule metrics, reports, and trend charts. The Senior Scheduler will also lead schedule development and status meetings, maintain records of scope changes and schedule deviations, and perform related analyst and management activities. The position requires an active Secret security clearance. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and eligible to complete the required government background investigation.
Requirements
- Ten years of experience developing and maintaining project schedules.
- At least two years of project or program analysis of complex systems in a DoD acquisition environment; Department of the Navy experience is preferred.
- A master's degree in a business discipline, or a bachelor's degree plus four additional years of applicable experience.
- Active Secret Security Clearance; must be a U.S. citizen and able to complete the full government background investigation.
- Experience using Microsoft Project in a role and environment comparable to a scheduler at NAVAIR.
- Experience creating and maintaining Microsoft Project tasks and milestones, including durations, constraints, custom fields, and notes.
- Experience maintaining task network relationships, including predecessors, successors, and lead/lag relationships.
- Ability to identify and analyze early and late dates, free float, total float, driving paths, and critical paths.
- Experience establishing schedule baselines and statusing tasks and schedules using the remaining-duration method.
- Ability to calculate and analyze schedule health and integrity metrics and take action to improve schedule quality.
- Intermediate familiarity with one or more of hardware development, systems engineering, software development, and project management lifecycles.
- Demonstrated ability to perform functional duties independently.
- Strong customer relations, analytics, and documentation skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to work in a challenging, fast-paced, team-oriented environment and independently.
- Ability to multitask and meet competing deliverable deadlines.
- Detail-oriented, with strong interpersonal and customer service skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to provide clear status updates and communicate issues.
- Ability to adapt to evolving technology.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with summary schedule software such as OnePager Pro.
- Experience guiding a team through schedule development to produce a baselined Integrated Master Schedule.
- Experience developing and implementing basic scheduling processes, including planning, statusing, reporting, and change control.
- Experience contributing to Work Breakdown Structures, Integrated Master Plans, and other foundational project planning documents.
- Exposure to projects involving engineering, test and evaluation, software development, acquisition, procurement, or logistics.
- Basic knowledge and understanding of the NAVAIR organization and acquisition process.
- DAU Level II Certification or equivalent in Program Management or Business.
- PMI-SP, Microsoft Scheduling Certificate, or PMP.
- Earned Value Management training or experience.
- OnePager Pro proficiency or experience.
- Project Management Office (PMO) experience.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain multiple project schedules using Microsoft Project.
- Integrate project and vendor schedules into a single master schedule.
- Develop Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).
- Analyze critical paths, near-critical paths, schedule variances, and schedule progress against plan.
- Generate reports using industry-standard schedule metrics and develop progress reports, metrics reports, and trend charts.
- Lead schedule development and status update meetings with required stakeholders.
- Maintain records of scope changes and schedule deviations.
- Analyze schedule change orders for impacts.
- Load and level schedule resources.
- Develop Integrated Master Plans (IMP).
- Perform related analyst and management activities required for successful completion of assigned tasks.
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Employer-paid dental, vision, basic life/AD&D, and short-term/long-term insurance
- Health Savings Account with employer contribution
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- Annual discretionary bonuses
- Paid time off
- Eleven paid holidays
- Certification reimbursement program
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Rewards and recognition programs
- Community outreach events through the KAIROS Kares group
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
