Sr. Program Master Scheduler

The Army Mission partners Division at Leidos currently has an opening for a Sr. Program Master Scheduler. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to help manage the Army Global Unified Network (AGUN) program. In this mission we support the United States Army to ensure their infrastructure and networks are scalable, accessible, flexible and defensible in alignment with the Army's Network Modernization Strategy and Army Unified Network Plan (AUNP).

Leidos is seeking a Master Scheduler. The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of creating and maintaining a resource loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) schedule to provide the basis for the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) time phased budget and estimate to complete cost data for this project. In depth IMS Project skill will be required to facilitate meetings and work one-on-one to ascertain project activities, resources, requirements, predecessors, successors, impacts, milestones, etc. They will construct and maintain the MS Project plan daily, run reports, and generate various views.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for applying scheduling theory to develop and maintain a resource loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) schedule as the basis for the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) in compliance with EVM standard EIA-748 and best practices as in the Planning and Scheduling Excellence Guide (PASEG).
• 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
• Strong communications skills with the ability to work with the functional areas to identify and maintain all schedule tasks and dependencies.
• In conjunction with the Project Manager, and with input from the cross-functional team, generate, publish and maintain an accurate a Master Schedule, using MS Project, 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of scheduling theory and related best-practices (e.g., PASEG), Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) architecture (e.g., WBS or IMP based)
• Proven working knowledge of Critical Path
• Proven working knowledge of implementing and managing a resource loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) schedule to provide the basis for the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) time phased budget and estimate to complete cost Schedule Status/Forecast Management/Business Rhythms
• Strong experience with Baseline Change Control and IMS configuration management.
• Ability to work independently with overall responsibility for the Master Schedule
• Advanced expertise using Microsoft Project
• Proven ability to work well within a team/collaborative environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience working on Army Global Unified Network (AGUN) initiatives
• Program Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Scheduling Professional (SP) certification
• Experience using tools like Microsoft Project Web App (PWA), Structured Solutions Inc. (SSI) Tools for Microsoft Project, OPDEC Integrated Program Manager (IPM), Deltek Cobra, Deltek CostPoint, and other Scheduling and EVMS tools.
• Advanced Excel skill set including Power BI, pivot tables, macros, lookup tables

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.