The Joint Operations Scheduler is responsible for creating, maintaining, reporting, and managing a comprehensive program schedule that captures planning and execution progress. The scheduler will develop timelines, identify resource conflicts, monitor progress, perform critical path analysis, and support multi-service experimentation planning, resourcing, and execution.
Responsibilities- Capture planning details in the scheduling tool, including tasks, activities, deliverables, timelines, event-level requirements, and levels of effort.
- Ensure schedule structure aligns with government and industry best practices (GAO-16-89G, Schedule Assessment Guide).
- Engage with engineering, operations, logistics, and service stakeholders to collect planning data and maintain situational awareness across product development, capability deployment, and joint experimentation activities.
- Coordinate information across geographically dispersed teams to maintain synchronization.
- Identify and schedule resources to ensure balanced capacity and minimize conflicts across development, deployment, experimentation, and joint exercises.
- Identify required systems, equipment, cloud/on-prem resources, networks, and infrastructure needed to support experimentation, and integrate them into the IMS.
- Identify and report cost and schedule risks; propose mitigation strategies beyond simple schedule adjustments.
- Develop, integrate, and manage scheduling activities that comply with program or product requirements.
- Perform schedule updates, recovery planning, and "what-if" analysis for development, deployment, and event execution.
- Monitor execution toward milestones, technical readiness criteria, integration timelines, and key events.
- Develop schedules that effectively communicate across all levels of the project team and leadership.
- Support data collection and timeline interpretation for leadership briefs and program reviews.
- Conduct critical path, schedule slack, and predecessor/successor analyses
- Perform Schedule Risk Assessments.
- Develop schedule metrics aligned with the Requirements Verification Traceability Matrix (RTVM) and recommend updates to improve program monitoring and reporting.
Required Experience- 18+ years of experience.
- 5+ years of experience providing program management services within a PMO.
- 3+ years of experience developing schedules within project management services.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, JIRA, and related scheduling tools.
- Experience developing and applying Work Breakdown Structures (level 4).
- Experience developing and managing Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS).
- Ability to learn and apply technical concepts, including integration environments and cloud/on-prem resources.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, data-mining, and communication skills.
- Highly organized, self-motivated, and able to coordinate across military, government civilian, and contractor personnel.
Desired Experience- Prior military or government experience in joint planning or technical operations.
- Experience supporting or employing JFN, CJADC2, or other advanced joint C2/fires systems.
Required Education- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, operations research, national security studies, or a related field.
Work Schedule- Ability to work within JMIE PM schedule requirements; schedule varies based on task criticality.
- Ability to perform onsite work in secure facilities at least 75% of the time.
Required Clearance• TS/SCI
The pay range for this position in is $150,000/year to $180,000/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on established government contract ranges, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, and other factors. MTSI also offers a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Base pay information is based on market location. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis. This posting will be renewed periodically until the position is filled.
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