Integrated Master Scheduler — Drive Program Timelines & Risk

Peraton; United States; On-site; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

Tuition reimbursement

Fertility treatment

Job summary

Peraton is seeking an Integrated Master Scheduler to develop and manage the program's IMS using Microsoft Project, coordinating with PMO, engineering, and customer teams to ensure schedule integrity.

The ideal candidate will have extensive MS Project experience, schedule analytics capabilities, and a strong understanding of DCMA guidelines to drive milestone and dependency analysis across the program lifecycle, including IPMDAR inputs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience, or Masters and 10+ years experience. Four (4) additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of aBachelor'sdegree.
• Minimum 4+ years of MS Project experience, preferably with a software or system engineering background.
• Experience working with Program leadership, Control Account Managers and Product Owners to identify project slack and dependencies, develop, analyze, and manage schedules that comply with a program's SOO/TPRs/CWBS/CSOW.
• Experience establishing and monitoring the execution of the program towards milestones, key events, and significant accomplishment criteria.
• Experience applying data analytics skills to simplify technical requirements, establish metrics, and apply data visualization through different formats and tools.
• Experience with the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) project management guideline to ensure qualitative and quantitative schedule evaluation.
• U.S. Citizenship required

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and continuously update the program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) in Microsoft Project, incorporating program activities, milestones, deliverables, need dates, system task interrelationships, integration activities, and programmatic interfaces.
• Coordinate regularly with the PMO, program stakeholders, program partners, and the Customer to gather schedule inputs, resource requirements, dependencies, and status supporting the IMS and IPMDAR.
• Identify, monitor, analyze, and report schedule progress, schedule drivers, and first-, second-, and third-tier critical paths, including risks and issues that may impact key milestones or program execution.
• Develop and maintain an integrated Giver/Receiver list within the system-level schedule, coordinating dependencies and need dates across program partners and stakeholders.
• Evaluate stakeholder plans and schedules for disconnects with the program IMS; jointly develop closure plans, coordinate resolution with affected stakeholders, and track issues through closure.
• Integrate System Security activities, security CDRLs/ADRLs, cybersecurity test events, authorization activities, and required need dates into the IMS.
• Integrate PPIP planning, activities, and associated artifacts into the IMS.
• Coordinate with the Chief Engineer and Software Development Technical Lead to ensure software build plans, engineering activities, and associated milestones are aligned with the IMS.
• Coordinate with the MBSE team to ensure applicable IMS changes and dependencies are appropriately captured within the program's model-based systems engineering environment.
• Identify and elevate schedule and resource risks to the Risk Management Team, Business Manager, and program leadership as appropriate.
• Attend PMO and Customer meetings to provide IMS/IPMDAR status, critical-path analysis, schedule impacts, outstanding issues, and recommendations supporting program management decisions.
• Work with the Business Manager to establish repeatable processes for Control Account Managers (CAMs) to provide timely and accurate monthly inputs supporting the IMS and IPMDAR.
• Support Customer schedule reviews, audits, and other program assessments as required.
• Maintain schedule integrity and configuration throughout the full program lifecycle, ensuring changes, dependencies, risks, and progress are accurately reflected in the IMS.

Skills

MS Project

SOO/TPRs/CWBS/CSOW

Milestones tracking

Schedule analytics

DCMA guidance

US citizenship

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Jira

CAMEO

Job description

Peraton is seeking an Integrated Master Scheduler to develop and manage the program's IMS using Microsoft Project, coordinating with PMO, engineering, and customer teams to ensure schedule integrity.

The ideal candidate will have extensive MS Project experience, schedule analytics capabilities, and a strong understanding of DCMA guidelines to drive milestone and dependency analysis across the program lifecycle, including IPMDAR inputs.