Scheduler

Stellar Solutions Inc • Los Angeles, CA

5d • $115,000 - $143,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Stellar Solutions, a nationally recognized “Great Place To Work,” delivers engineering solutions across commercial space and national security missions—from innovative new entrants to established space systems organizations.We bring talented, energetic, and immediately productive professionals to meet critical customer needs in systems engineering and integration, mission operations, program management, and strategic planning—helping teams deliver resilient capability to the mission with speed, quality, and focus.
Stellar Solutions is seeking a Scheduler to support the SN SE&I program in planning and managing integrated schedules for resilient remote sensing and national security space capabilities. This role supports complex acquisition efforts across space, ground, software, and hardware systems and helps provide the program with actionable schedule insight, risk visibility, and decision support. The position requires close collaboration across program stakeholders and disciplined execution in a dynamic mission environment.
This role helps establish and maintain integrated scheduling rigor across major defense acquisition activities. The Scheduler will work with technical and programmatic data from multiple sources to develop actionable schedules, identify risks, and support customer planning and execution.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience with systems engineering or project management, schedule planning, and development efforts on Major Defense Acquisition Programs, including space, ground, software, or hardware systems
• 1+ years of experience creating, maintaining, and updating project-based schedules including critical paths and comparing actual progress against the baseline
• Experience developing, documenting, and executing a Lean-Agile process to establish and manage Integrated Master Schedules and technical baselines
• Experience identifying scheduling risks or conflicts and implementing remediation and mitigation plans
• Experience applying Critical Path Methodology to identify dependencies, calculate float, and expose schedule risks
• Experience with scheduling tools, including MS Project, Milestones Professional, One Pager Pro, SharePoint, and Excel
• Ability to gather data from multiple sources and stakeholders across the program and display it in a useful manner for the customer
• Ability to communicate and establish collaborative relationships with government clients, FFRDCs, and partner teammates to achieve program goals
• Ability to identify, document, and integrate technical and programmatic data describing systems, segments, and external drivers to review and provide input to the Integrated Master Schedule
• Bachelor’s degree
• Active Secret clearance

Nice To Haves

• Experience performing systems engineering, program management, and schedule development activities on space-based remote sensing systems
• Experience using a model-based systems engineering approach to manage system definitions and technical baseline
• Experience managing annual schedule activities for remote sensing sustainment programs, working with large amounts of data, and utilizing metrics to improve processes and ensure consistency and standardization across the organization
• Knowledge of DoD 5000.01 and 5000.02
• Knowledge of space systems and their corresponding design, development, manufacturing, integration and testing, deployment, operations, and decommissioning activities
• Ability to communicate, coordinate, and concurrently manage several program-level, enterprise, and integrated master schedules
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Business, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, or a relevant field
• Active TS/SCI clearance is desired

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update project-based schedules, including critical paths and baseline comparisons
• Support planning and development efforts on Major Defense Acquisition Programs involving space, ground, software, or hardware systems
• Develop, document, and execute Lean-Agile processes to establish and manage Integrated Master Schedules and technical baselines
• Identify scheduling risks or conflicts and implement remediation and mitigation plans
• Apply Critical Path Methodology to identify dependencies, calculate float, and expose schedule risks
• Use scheduling tools including MS Project, Milestones Professional, One Pager Pro, SharePoint, and Excel to support program planning
• Gather data from multiple sources and stakeholders and present it in a useful manner for the customer
• Build collaborative relationships with government clients, FFRDCs, and partner teammates to achieve program goals
• Identify, document, and integrate technical and programmatic data describing systems, segments, and external drivers
• Review and provide input to the Integrated Master Schedule in support of program execution

Benefits

• In addition to salary, this position is also eligible for a discretionary annual performance bonus, profit sharing / retirement plan and other benefits (all in addition to annual base salary).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees