Scheduler

Leidos, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

33 days annual leave

Flexible benefits

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Project Scheduler to shape and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for a complex, high-profile programme. You will coordinate across workstreams, identify critical paths, and communicate risks and milestones to stakeholders.

You will work with project managers and PMO teams to keep schedules based on integrated planning, ensuring governance and baselines are maintained. Proficiency in Microsoft Project is essential.

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 or maintenance of integrated schedules.

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.

Skills

Scheduling

Microsoft Project

Integrated planning

Dependency management

Critical path analysis

Stakeholder communication

Team collaboration

Tools

Microsoft Project

PMO tools

Job description

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.
  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.
  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., Leidos UK & Europe (http://www.leidos.com/company/global/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., 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 .

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, 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 .