Senior Enterprise Schedule Analytics & OR Leader

Peraton; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton in Herndon, VA is seeking a Principal Enterprise Schedule Analytics & Operations Research Analyst to lead analytical resources for enterprise IMS, schedule intelligence, and decision analytics in FAA BNATCS programs.

The role applies AI-enabled analytics, optimization, and what-if modeling to improve enterprise execution, identify constraints, and support leadership decisions. On-site work, collaboration across disciplines, and delivering executive briefings.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain/maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Experience with large, complex government, aerospace, or defense programs.
• Experience analyzing Integrated Master Schedules using scheduling tools.
• Experience with analytics, optimization, predictive analytics, simulation, or operations research.
• Experience developing executive-level briefings and decision-support products.

Responsibilities

• Analyze enterprise Integrated Master Schedules containing hundreds of thousands to millions of activities.
• Assess schedule health using critical path, total float, free float, logic density, open-end analysis, constraints, baseline variance, and schedule integrity metrics.
• Identify missing predecessors/successors, out-of-sequence progress, resource conflicts, hidden dependencies, and enterprise schedule risks.
• Perform trend analysis, milestone forecasting, and cross-program dependency assessments.
• Develop optimized Courses of Action (COAs) to improve enterprise schedule performance.
• Perform what-if analyses, trade studies, predictive modeling, simulation, and sensitivity analyses.
• Quantify impacts of proposed schedule changes before implementation.
• Develop recovery strategies and recommend optimal sequencing of work.
• Conduct independent studies assessing vendor production capacity, raw material availability, manufacturing throughput, installation sequencing, workforce utilization, resource constraints, and supply chain impacts.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Written communication

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Associate's Degree

HS diploma/equivalent

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Power BI

Tableau

Acumen Fuse

Acumen Risk

Safran Risk

Primavera P6

Job description

Peraton in Herndon, VA is seeking a Principal Enterprise Schedule Analytics & Operations Research Analyst to lead analytical resources for enterprise IMS, schedule intelligence, and decision analytics in FAA BNATCS programs.

The role applies AI-enabled analytics, optimization, and what-if modeling to improve enterprise execution, identify constraints, and support leadership decisions. On-site work, collaboration across disciplines, and delivering executive briefings.