Senior Schedule Analyst

KAIROS Inc•Saint Inigoes Shores, MD

7d•$120,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

KAIROS, Inc. is seeking an energetic, experienced, and highly motivated Senior Schedule Analyst to join their team. KAIROS, Inc. is a growing Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) specializing in Life Cycle Program Management, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Logistics and Sustainment, Enterprise Platforms and AI, and Additive Manufacturing services. The company focuses on optimizing customers’ program performance and mission through proven methodologies and ethical practices. The headquarters is in California, MD near Naval Air Station Patuxent River. They offer competitive salaries and benefits with outstanding growth potential. This position requires a high-level understanding of scheduling fundamentals and their application within the Microsoft Project scheduling tool. The candidate must be skilled in both written and oral communications and comfortable working in a group setting with multiple stakeholders. Familiarization with Hardware Development, System Engineering, Software Development, and Project Management Lifecycles is expected.

Requirements

Demonstrated ability to perform functional duties independently
Experience using Microsoft Project in a role and environment comparable to being a scheduler at NAVAIR
Experience with schedule development and maintenance using Microsoft Project including activities such as: Adding tasks/milestones and maintaining associated task/milestone information including duration, constraints, custom fields, and notes.
Adding and maintaining schedule elements that network tasks together including predecessors/successors, lead/lags.
Identifying and isolating for analysis & reporting early dates, late dates, free float, total float, driving paths and critical paths.
Establishing schedule baselines.
Statusing tasks and schedules using the remaining duration method.
Calculating and analyzing metrics that indicate the health and integrity of schedule construction, then taking action to improve the health of the schedule.
Experience with software used to develop summary schedules such as One Pager Pro.
Experience guiding a team through the schedule development process resulting in a baselined Integrated Master Schedule.
Experience developing and implementing basic scheduling process such as planning, statusing, reporting, and change control.
Experience contributing to development of Work Breakdown Structures, Integrated Master Plans and other project documents that serve as the foundation of planning.
Exposure to projects involving engineering, test and evaluation, software development, acquisition, procurement, or logistics.
A basic knowledge and understanding of the NAVAIR organization and the acquisition process.
Strong customer relations, analytics, and documentation skills
Self-starter, highly motivated, strong work ethic with a commitment to quality
Microsoft office suite proficiency, i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Ability to work within a challenging, fast-paced, team-oriented environment
Ability to work independently
Ability to multi-task and meet competing, deliverable deadlines
Detail oriented
Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills to provide clear status and/or communicate issues
Ability to adapt to evolving technology
Master's degree in a business discipline. In lieu of a Master's degree, a bachelors degree and four (4) additional years of applicable experience may be substituted.
Ten (10) years of experience developing/maintaining project schedules. At least two of those years must be in project or program analysis of complex systems in the DoD (Department of the Navy (DON) preferred) acquisition environment.
U.S. Citizen and able to complete the full background investigation.
Active Secret Security Clearance.

Nice To Haves

DAU Level II Certification or equivalent – Program Management or Business, preferred
PMI-SP, Microsoft Scheduling Certificate or PMP, preferred
Earned Value Management training and/or experience, preferred
OnePager Pro proficiency or experience, preferred
Project Management Office (PMO) experience, preferred

Responsibilities

Development/maintenance of multiple project schedules
Integration of multiple project schedules including vendor schedules into a single master schedule
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development
Critical Path/Near Critical Path analysis
Perform schedule variance analysis, generate reports using industry standard schedule metrics
Evaluate schedule progress against plan
Lead schedule development and status update meetings with required stakeholders
Maintain record of scope changes and schedule deviations
Analyze schedule change orders for impacts
Resource Loading/Leveling of schedules
Develop schedule progress, metrics reports and trend charts
Integrated Master Plan (IMP) development
Performs other related analyst/management activities required for successful completion of required tasks