Leidos Defense Systems Sector has an immediate opening for a Senior Program Scheduler to support our Enduring Shield - Indirect Fire Protection Capability Portfolio within the Land Systems Business Area.
In this role, you will work onsite from our Mid-City Facility in Huntsville - AL facility to provide direct scheduling leadership and contribution to critical programs and related portfolios. You will work with various production & manufacturing leads, Integrated Product teams, key program stakeholders, and EVMS support Team to improve program planning and execution while ensuring compliance with contractual requirements and company policy and procedures.
The Senior Program Scheduler position will be an integral part of the larger enterprise-wide Leidos Corporate Earned Value Management (EVM) Center of Excellence (COE). The Leidos Corporate EVM COE is a team-leading and executing the core responsibilities of scheduling, planning, EVMS, the associated infrastructure and tools, implementations, training, and surveillance for Leidos.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Responsible for implementing practices to align the time phasing and plans for resources with the IMS to provide an integrated technical, schedule, and resource / cost baseline and forecast/ ETC for programs.
- Ability to create “what-if” scenarios within the schedule that inform program leadership
- Participate in new business proposals through scheduling functional support.
- Serves as a scheduling leader in assisting programs with issue identification & resolution solutions.
- Implement program scheduling business rhythms & controls
- Develop scheduling artifacts to meet contractual/project requirements
- Monitor, analyze, and report performance against baseline schedules to ensure that contractual, cost, and schedule objectives are met.
- Provides scheduling support to EVM COE and programs for internal and external audits and reviews and application of resulting corrective actions.
- Significant interface with Program Managers, Contracts, and Senior Technical Personnel, as well as other organizations.
- Responsible for applying scheduling theory/practice to develop the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and related artifacts in compliance with applicable standards and policies such as EVM standard EIA-748 and industry best practices (e.g., PASEG, NDIA) in alignment with the mission of the EVM COE and in support of programs.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of program scheduling experience. Additional years of relevant program scheduling experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Must have advanced expertise using Microsoft Project scheduling software
- Requires a high-level understanding of programmatic scheduling theory and practice
- Required program management and EVMS knowledge.
- US citizenship is required and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.
- Must possess an understanding of advanced scheduling theory including experience with:
- Schedule status processes
- Schedule health assessment (e.g., 14-Point Analysis)
- Resource loading/management
- Cost and Schedule Integration w/ OPDEC IPM and/or COBRA EVM tools
- Baseline change control processes
- schedule execution metrics (BEI, CEI, CPLI, SV, SPI etc.)
- Schedule Risk Assessment (SRA)/Monte Carlo Analysis and tools
- Critical Path Method (CPM) and Margin/Float management
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in a Manufacturing/Production/Prototyping environment
- Intermediate to advanced expertise using Structured Solutions Inc. (SSI) Tools for Microsoft Project
- Program Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Scheduling Professional (SP) certification
- Experience w/ Milestones Professional
- Strong skills with MS Project, including Macros
Please note that actual pay for this job is closer to the middle of the posted pay range.
Original Posting:April 18, 2025
For U.S. Positions: 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:Pay Range $80,600.00 - $145,700.00
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.
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