Master Schedule Lead: Project Planning & Analysis

Astrion; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Astrion at NASA Ames Research Center in California is seeking a Project Scheduler to lead schedule development and reporting for aerospace projects. You will build integrated master schedules, ingest inputs from multiple teams, and track progress against milestones.

The ideal candidate has strong Microsoft Project skills, excellent time management, and the ability to communicate updates to managers, scientists, and engineers. Travel as needed and prior NASA or spaceflight experience are a plus.

Qualifications

• Project planning or schedule knowledge is a prerequisite for this role.
• Must be flexible in adapting to deadlines, changing schedules, competing priorities, and unpredictable events.
• Thorough, detail oriented, and organized, with excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize tasks.
• Familiar with and able to present data and recommendations to a diverse audience of project managers, scientists, engineers and technical staff.
• Superb verbal and written communication skills.
• Ideal candidate has demonstrated ability to assign work and manage personnel and tasks.
• Self-motivated and independent thinker.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all Project Schedule activities, including overall schedule development, tasking of status work, quality control, customer satisfaction, and performance tracking and reporting.
• Create detailed project integrated master schedules using Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
• Ingest schedules from internal and external project elements
• Perform schedule analysis to review task linking, logic, slack, drivers, and Critical Path analyses
• Produce schedule reports for critical path, milestones, schedule slack and key givers and receivers
• Working with the project managers and technical staff to forecast, track performance, and provide insights
• Identify, communicate, and deconflict tasks, deliverables and schedule impacts
• Responsible for monthly, annual and milestone review schedule assessments and reports
• Interface with Government, contractors and mission partner staff for schedule updates and status
• Some travel may be required to support mission and project partners #NASA

Skills

Project scheduling

Schedule development

Time management

Verbal & written communication

Leadership / task assignment

Data presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in management, business, or engineering

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

Astrion at NASA Ames Research Center in California is seeking a Project Scheduler to lead schedule development and reporting for aerospace projects. You will build integrated master schedules, ingest inputs from multiple teams, and track progress against milestones.

The ideal candidate has strong Microsoft Project skills, excellent time management, and the ability to communicate updates to managers, scientists, and engineers. Travel as needed and prior NASA or spaceflight experience are a plus.