Scheduler (Mid Level) with Security Clearance - Chantilly, VA, United States - CONNEXIONS FEDERAL SERVICES

Description

Scheduler (Mid Level)

Start:
April, 2024


Type:
W2/ C2C/ 1099

Location:
Chantilly, VA Active TS/SCI with CI

Polygraph Description:
The Scheduler will support a new Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) program.

Responsibilities:

The individual will be responsible for all aspects of creating and maintaining an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for the enterprise program and multiple individual sites.

They will be required to facilitate meetings and work one-on-one to ascertain project activities, resources, requirements, predecessors, successors, impacts, milestones, etc.

Construct and maintain the MS Project plan daily, distribute weekly, run reports, and generate various views.

Apply scheduling theory to develop and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and related artifacts in compliance with scheduling best practices and applicable standards.

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.

Generate, publish, and maintain an accurate a Master Schedule, using MS Project and the customer's tools, showing the tasks and resources required to deliver on-time, per customer requirements and milestones.

Work closely with PMO, SE&I site and team leads, and external organizations to develop detailed schedules, keep these schedules current and seamlessly integrated into the Master Schedule.

Provide hands-on development of layered schedules detailing how a specific project is progressing including how the project contributes to overarching program requirements and objectives.

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


Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree with 8-12 years of relevant experience
MS Project and/or other schedule management tools (e.g., MS Project Server/Deltek Open Plan)
Understanding of Critical Path, Resource loading/management, Baseline Change Control
Ability to work independently with overall responsibility for the Master Schedule
Proven ability to work well within a team/collaborative environment
Preferred

Qualifications:
Scheduling theory and related best-practices (e.g., PASEG)
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) Certification
Must have a TS/SCI with CI Polygraph