Scheduler

Leidos; Winchester; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

33 days Annual Leave

Flexible benefits

Flexi-Time Working

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Project Scheduler to shape and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for a complex programme. You will consolidate plans from multiple teams into one schedule with clear links and manage risks and critical paths.

Proficiency in Microsoft Project and integrated planning will help you deliver accurate forecasts and support informed decision-making across project managers, PMO teams and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in scheduling, planning, or project controls within complex programmes or portfolios.
• Knowledge of integrated planning, dependency management, schedule assurance, and critical path analysis.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project and the creation/maintenance of integrated schedules.
• Ability to analyse complex information and provide constructive challenge.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Collaborative approach and willingness to work across teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and manage the programme's Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
• Bring together plans from multiple teams into a single, integrated schedule with clear logical links.
• Identify critical paths, dependencies, and scheduling risks, highlighting potential impacts and mitigation options.
• Review project plans, providing constructive challenge to ensure schedules are realistic and aligned to objectives.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, PMO teams, and programme stakeholders to keep plans accurate and up to date.
• Produce meaningful schedule reporting, analysis, and forecasts to support decision-making.
• Help maintain consistent planning standards, baselines, and governance processes.

Skills

Scheduling

Microsoft Project

Integrated planning

Dependencies

Critical path

Stakeholder communication

IMS

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Description

SCHEDULER

Location: Hybrid, Whiteley, Hampshire
Security Clearance: This role requires the ability to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance (SC). Eligibility will be discussed during the recruitment process.

We’re looking for a Project Scheduler to play a key role in shaping and maintaining the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for a complex, high-profile programme. You'll help provide clear planning insight across multiple workstreams, ensuring dependencies, risks, and key milestones are understood, managed, and communicated effectively.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys bringing structure to complexity, influencing programme delivery, and supporting informed decision-making. You'll work closely with project and programme teams, using your expertise in Microsoft Project and integrated planning to help keep delivery on track.

What You'll Be Doing

• Develop, maintain, and manage the programme's Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
• Bring together plans from multiple teams into a single, integrated schedule with clear logical links.
• Identify critical paths, dependencies, and scheduling risks, highlighting potential impacts and mitigation options.
• Review project plans, providing constructive challenge to help ensure schedules are realistic, achievable, and aligned to programme objectives.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, PMO teams, and programme stakeholders to ensure plans remain accurate and up to date.
• Produce meaningful schedule reporting, analysis, and forecasts to support decision-making.
• Help maintain consistent planning standards, assumptions, baselines, and governance processes.

What We're Looking For

We're interested in hearing from people who can demonstrate some or all of the following:

• Experience in scheduling, planning, or project controls within complex programmes or portfolios.
• Knowledge of integrated planning, dependency management, schedule assurance, and critical path analysis.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project and the creation or maintenance of integrated schedules.
• Ability to analyse complex information and provide constructive challenge where appropriate.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• A collaborative approach and a willingness to work across teams to achieve shared outcomes.

What we do for you

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme and much more!)
• Flexi-Time Working

Commitment to Diversity

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are

Leidos UK & Europe – we work to make the worldsafer,healthier, andmore efficient through technology, engineering andscience. Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Pay Range

£58,400.00-£74,900.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.