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Job Description:
Parsons is seeking a skilled Integrated Master Scheduler to join our growing team!
In this role you will be joining a small, fast-moving program team supporting a classified space portfolio. You will be responsible for building, maintaining, and analyzing an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) across multiple projects, ensuring schedule integrity, resource alignment, and program fidelity to key milestones. This role requires a detail-oriented critical thinker and self-starter who can pull in data from various data sets independently and make recommendations enabling program management decisions.
What You'll Be Doing:
Develop, maintain, and status the program IMS in Microsoft Project, ensuring fully networked logic, dependencies, and alignment with program milestones.
Perform critical path analysis, resource loading, and schedule performance tracking.
Ensure integration of schedules across IPTs, suppliers, WBS elements, and subcontractors.
Apply resource loading to support realistic staffing plans and capacity assessments in coordination with program leads and business management.
Prepare and deliver schedule reports, metrics, and forecasts.
Support schedule risk assessments and “what-if” analyses to evaluate alternatives, quantify schedule risk, and inform risk mitigation strategies.
Maintain configuration control of the baseline schedule, documenting changes, rationales, and impacts.
Ensure schedule activities and logic reflect technical baselines, interfaces, and dependencies across space, ground, software, integration, and test activities.
Contribute to acquisition and program planning (e.g. IMS deliverables, CDRLs, proposal volumes, Integrated Master Plan, RFP responses, and task order proposals).
Contribute to preparation and review of acquisition documents, technical reviews, and schedule-related contract deliverables and proposals.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
Active TS/SCI required
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, or related field, with additional years of experience counting in lieu of a degree.
5+ years of experience in program scheduling in a program office or large system development environment, preferably in space, defense, or aerospace.
Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Project for building and maintaining fully networked schedules, including dependencies, constraints, and resource assignments.
Experience supporting Integrated Master Schedules for complex, multi-discipline programs with multiple IPTs and subcontractors.
Understanding of EVM principles.
Experience conducting critical path analysis and communicating schedule status, risks, and impacts to program stakeholders.
Project management principles
Ability to communicate technical and programmatic information clearly across diverse teams
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
Prior experience supporting a space system program in a government or industry program office.
Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and methods and ability to align schedule activities with system models and architectures.
Familiarity with systems engineering (requirements, design, integration, verification, validation) and their translation into schedule logic and milestones.
Experience with configuration management processes and tools, including maintaining traceability between the IMS, baselines, and program documentation.
Experience writing or contributing to acquisition and program documents (e.g. IMP, RFPs and proposals) for DoD or intelligence community customers.
Security Clearance Requirement:
An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.Salary Range: $103,500.00 - $181,100.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 30 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, or related (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of experience in program scheduling in a program office or large system development environment (preferably space/defense/aerospace)
- Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Project for building and maintaining fully networked schedules
- Experience supporting Integrated Master Schedules for complex, multi-discipline programs with multiple IPTs and subcontractors
- Understanding of Earned Value Management (EVM) principles
- Experience conducting critical path analysis and communicating schedule status, risks, and impacts to stakeholders
- Knowledge of project management principles
- Ability to communicate technical and programmatic information clearly across diverse teams
- Prior experience supporting a space system program in a government or industry program office
- Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and methods
- Familiarity with systems engineering and translating requirements into schedule logic and milestones
- Experience with configuration management processes and tools, maintaining traceability between IMS and program documentation
- Experience writing or contributing to acquisition and program documents (IMP, RFPs, proposals) for DoD or intelligence community customers
Parsons Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
