Engineering Scheduler / JIRA Administrator CTSC
Summary:
Advanced Technology Systems Company (ATSC) is seeking an Engineering Scheduler / JIRA Administrator to join our growing team in Gilbert, AZ. The Engineering Scheduler / JIRA Administrator is responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing engineering schedules, managing Agile workflows, administering JIRA projects, and ensuring accurate tracking of tasks, deliverables, risks, and performance metrics across multiple engineering teams. This position plays a critical role in supporting program execution, integrated master scheduling, engineering coordination, and reporting to both internal leadership and external customers.
Essential Responsibilities:
• Develop, maintain, and update engineering schedules, milestones, and work breakdown structures (WBS) in alignment with program requirements and deadlines.
• Administer and configure JIRA projects, workflows, dashboards, permissions, issue types, automation, and fields to support engineering, test, manufacturing, and program teams.
• Create, manage, and optimize Agile boards (Scrum and Kanban), sprint schedules, backlog organization, and team velocity tracking.
• Maintain the engineering Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), ensuring alignment with procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and test schedules.
• Work with engineering leads to define task durations, dependencies, resource requirements, and critical path elements.
• Develop custom JIRA dashboards and reports for Program Management, Engineering Leadership, PMO, and customer reporting.
• Track engineering deliverables, design reviews, test activities, fixture development, integration events, and verification progress.
• Support configuration control through structured workflow management and traceability of engineering changes.
• Identify schedule risks, resource constraints, slip indicators, and mitigation options; elevate issues to leadership proactively.
• Produce weekly, monthly, and milestone-based schedule reports, burndown charts, risk registers, and status summaries.
• Support engineering readiness for customer reviews including PDR, CDR, TRR, FAI, FAT, SAT, and IPRs.
• Assist technical teams in planning, sequencing, and documenting workflows for design, testing, integration, troubleshooting, and manufacturing activities.
• Train new engineering team members on JIRA usage, workflow policies, and schedule expectations.
• Maintain consistency across engineering schedules, ensuring data integrity and alignment with PMO and Quality processes.
• Support continuous improvement of scheduling, workflow processes, automation rules, and engineering reporting standards.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Project Management, Business, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in engineering scheduling, project coordination, Agile administration,automation within JIRA environments, or JIRA administration.
• Handson experience with JIRA project configuration, workflow design, dashboards, and reporting.
• Strong working knowledge of project scheduling tools (MS Project, Primavera, Smartsheet, or equivalent).
• Understanding of engineering lifecycle processes including design, integration, testing, manufacturing, and configuration management.
• Ability to interpret engineering tasks, dependencies, and technical workflows.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and collaboration tools.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to identify schedule discrepancies and propose solutions.
• Must be able to pass a detailed background investigation and meet criteria for a U.S. Government issued security clearance.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in defense, aerospace, or government contracted engineering environments.
• Experience supporting Agile development teams in a hardware software integrated environment.
• Experience generating engineering KPI reports (e.g., velocity, cycle time, throughput, defect rates).
• Familiarity with configuration management, change control, and design review processes.
• Experience integrating JIRA with Confluence, GitLab, or automated CI/CD pipelines.
Physical Demands & Work Environment:
• Work is typically performed in an office or engineering environment.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, talk, hear, and use computers and office equipment.
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally.
• Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
All job requirements in the job description provided indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills, and abilities deemed necessary to perform the job competently. Job descriptions are an overview of the duties, responsibilities, and requirements of the position. Employees may be required to perform other job related assignments as requested.
