Senior Program Scheduler

Trident Systems, Inc.

$100K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years in program/project planning and scheduling (4+ years with a Master's degree)
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Project and Excel
  • Strong organizational and time management skills
  • Excellent professional communication skills with cross-functional teams
  • Self-motivated with minimal oversight required
  • High attention to detail and accuracy

Responsibilities

  • Prepare compliant EVMS baseline schedules
  • Interface with cross-functional teams to establish performance measurement baselines
  • Update and monitor schedule status and performance
  • Conduct critical and driving path analysis and provide recommendations
  • Support Business Development with proposal schedule creation
  • Present planning and scheduling metrics to program team and leadership
  • Assist in preparing program review and customer-required documents

Benefits

  • Health benefits including medical, dental, and vision
  • Basic life insurance with AD&D
  • Short term and long term disability coverage
  • Voluntary ancillary benefits options
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • Leaves for parental, maternity, and military
  • Annual discretionary bonus for eligible roles
Full Job Description
Position Title: Senior Program Scheduler
Requisition ID: 1752
Position Location: Fairfax, VA
Position Reports To: Associate Manager, Scheduling
Supervises Others: No

Position Summary

Trident Systems Space Electronic Systems (SES) division has an immediate opening for a Senior Program Scheduler. As a Senior Program Scheduler at Trident SES, you'll prepare resource-loaded Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) and provide detailed schedule, work, and resource analysis in support of multiple Space Electronics Systems programs. You will aid in implementing an Earned Value Management System (EVMS)-lite process for baselining and statusing the programs, performing analysis to ensure proper control. To be successful, you must have a background in program planning as it relates to the development and maintenance of complex program schedule networks.

Duties and Responsibilities
  • Prepare EVMS baseline schedules compliant with program planning, execution, performance measurement, and reporting.
  • Interface with Program Management, Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering and Operations to establish the performance measurement baseline to meet customer requirements.
  • Work with cross-functional teams to update and monitor schedule status and performance.
  • Perform regular critical and driving path analysis, review results, and interface with program management to make schedule recommendations.
  • Support the Business Development department with proposal schedule creation.
  • Maintain, publish, and present planning and scheduling information and metrics to program team and leadership to ensure program visibility.
  • Assist in the preparation of program review documents and customer required documents.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience/combined education)
  • 6+ years of professional experience in program/project planning and scheduling or 4+ years of related experience with a Master's degree (10+ years in lieu of a degree)
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word.
  • Strong organizational, analysis, time management skills, attention to detail and accuracy, and ability to multi-task high priorities while dealing with some ambiguity.
  • Ability to demonstrate professional written and oral communications, and work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders and customers.
  • Self-motivated and able to perform tasks with minimal oversight.
  • High degree of professionalism and attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in Earned Value Management processes using MS Project.
  • DoD and/or government Program Planning Experience
  • Experience with proposal activities (WBS Development, IMS development).
  • PMI-SP Certification desired.


Benefits

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to:
  • Health benefits
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Basic life with AD&D
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Ancillary (Voluntary life with AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital, and pet)
  • Spending accounts (HSA, FSA, and DCFSA)
  • Paid time off
  • Holidays
  • 401(k) (including company match)
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Leaves (Parental, maternity, and military)
  • Annual discretionary bonus (for eligible roles)


Trident Systems reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

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