Senior Integrated Master Scheduler

Amentum company; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Educational reimbursement

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Amentum seeks a Senior Integrated Master Scheduler to lead the development and maintenance of an IMS for a Fort Meade program. You will integrate plans, resources, milestones, and dependencies to enable leadership to track execution and manage risk.

The role requires close coordination with program management, technical leads, and Government stakeholders, with a focus on agile execution in a dynamic defense environment. Candidates must hold TS clearance eligibility and a bachelor’s degree.

Qualifications

• Experience as primary/senior scheduler for an IMS integrating multiple workstreams and dependencies.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Project and resource loading.
• Familiarity with WBS maintenance, baseline control, risk mgmt., schedule reporting.
• Experience with IMS principles per DoD/MIL-STD 881 and reporting standards.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and leadership skills for cross-team alignment.
• Ability to support non-standard hours and up to 10% travel.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update the program’s IMS baseline and forecast using MS Project or approved tool.
• Create a logically networked, resource-loaded schedule with tasks, durations, dependencies, and milestones.
• Decompose work into measurable activities with proper logic, resources, and status methods.
• Ensure IMS traceability to WBS, data dictionary, contract requirements, and program artifacts.
• Maintain baselines, forecasts, calendars, coding structures, and configuration controls.
• Prepare monthly IMS updates and executive reports for leadership and Government stakeholders.
• Analyze critical path, total float, schedule margins, and forecast impacts.
• Identify risks and develop mitigations with functional leads.
• Provide schedule data for reviews, IPT meetings, and planning events.
• Coordinate inputs across technical, operations, logistics, staffing, and management.

Skills

Microsoft Project

Resource loading

WBS development

Schedule risk management

Critical-path analysis

Agile integration

Earned value integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, systems engineering, information technology, or related discipline

Tools

Jira

Power BI

Job description

Are you ready to apply your leadership to shape the Cyber, Security, & Intel landscape?

Amentum is seeking a Senior Integrated Master Scheduler to support a mission-focused program at Fort Meade, Maryland. In this role, you will develop, maintain, analyze, and report the program’s resource-loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).

Supporting DISA, Amentum’s Intel and Cyber Division is expanding a proven team of highly skilled engineers and architects to design, deploy, and sustain an innovative IT enterprise solution. The successful candidate will integrate program plans, work breakdown structures, resources, milestones, dependencies, and performance data into a logic-driven schedule that enables leadership to monitor execution, assess risk, manage dependencies, and make informed decisions. The role requires close coordination with program management, technical leads, functional teams, and Government stakeholders.

Our team delivers secure, mission-critical capabilities where system integrity and rapid deployment are paramount. We are seeking a Senior Integrated Master Scheduler who combines meticulous organizational discipline with strategic foresight. In this role, you will lead efforts to establish and maintain highly efficient agile execution in a rapidly evolving operational environment. Success requires the ability to navigate complex, cross-functional dependencies independently while fostering collaborative solutions across integrated engineering teams. To excel, you must possess a proactive leadership mindset and the agility to rapidly master and govern the delivery of next-generation systems and services.

Work Schedule: 8 Hours per day, Monday thru Friday

Essential Responsibilities:

The duties and responsibilities of the Senior Integrated Master Scheduler include but are not limited to the following:

• Develop, maintain, and update the program’s baseline and forecast Integrated Master Schedule using Microsoft Project or an approved scheduling tool.
• Build and maintain a logically networked, resource-loaded schedule that includes all authorized program work, including both discrete tasks and level-of-effort activities.
• Decompose program work into measurable, manageable activities with appropriate durations, logic ties, dependencies, milestones, resource assignments, and status methods.
• Ensure schedule traceability to the program Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), data dictionary, charge-code structure, contract requirements, and applicable program-management artifacts.
• Establish and maintain schedule baselines, forecasts, calendars, coding structures, and configuration-control processes.
• Conduct monthly schedule updates and prepare recurring IMS reports for program leadership and Government stakeholders.
• Analyze critical and near-critical paths, total float, schedule margin, milestone performance, dependencies, constraints, overdue activities, and forecast impacts.
• Identify schedule risks, issues, and emerging execution concerns; develop actionable mitigation options with responsible functional leads.
• Perform schedule-health assessments and recommend corrective actions to improve schedule logic, realism, completeness, and forecast credibility.
• Support program reviews, integrated product team meetings, status meetings, milestone reviews, and planning events by providing current schedule data, analyses, and clear, actionable briefings.
• Coordinate schedule inputs across technical, operational, logistics, staffing, and management functions; resolve schedule conflicts and integration issues.
• Ensure IMS products conform to applicable contract data-item requirements and program standards, including requirements associated with Integrated Program Management reporting, as applicable.
• Support development and maintenance of schedule documentation, including basis-of-estimate information, schedule narratives, assumptions, data dictionaries, change logs, and reporting procedures.
• Mentor program personnel on schedule discipline, status collection, dependency management, and schedule-quality practices.
• Employee will work in a SCIF on a daily basis.

Minimum Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience serving as the primary or senior scheduler responsible for an IMS that integrates multiple workstreams, organizations, dependencies, milestones, and resource requirements.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Project, including resource loading, fixed-work task types, schedule baselining, logic development, critical-path analysis, calendars, constraints, custom fields, coding, and reporting.
• Working knowledge of WBS development and maintenance; schedule traceability; baseline control; risk management; milestone management; and cost, schedule, and performance integration.
• Experience applying IMS principles consistent with DI-MGMT-81861 Format 6 / comparable Integrated Program Management reporting requirements and MIL-STD-881 work-breakdown-structure practices.Experience aligning Microsoft Project and Jira data to connect IMS activities, milestones, dependencies, and status with Agile work items and program execution reporting.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and leadership skills, with a track record of resolving cross-team conflicts, removing organizational impediments, and driving collaborative solutions.
• Ability to support non-standard hours, including scheduled maintenance windows, deployment surges, and emergency planning sessions.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Security Clearance Required: Must have active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, systems engineering, information technology, or a related discipline. Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

Minimum Years of Experience:Ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience developing, maintaining, and analyzing integrated program schedules for complex Government, defense, technology, systems integration, engineering, or similarly complex programs.At least five years of experience serving as the lead or primary scheduler for a resource-loaded Integrated Master Schedule.

Preferred Certifications and Qualifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)
• AACE Earned Value Professional (EVP), or comparable certification.
• Demonstrated experience applying GAO, DCMA, or equivalent schedule-quality and schedule-health assessment practices.
• Active DoD 8140/8570.01-M Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level II certification (e.g., CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent) to meet secure environment requirements.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Power BI, or comparable reporting and collaboration tools.
• Experience conducting or supporting schedule-risk assessments and implementing risk-informed mitigation actions.
• Experience integrating schedule data with earned value management, cost reporting, integrated baseline reviews, or similar performance-management processes.
  

This position is designated as a safety sensitive position. As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and compliant work environment, Amentum is a drug-free workplace and requires all personnel to comply with company drug and alcohol policies as a condition of employment. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the drug screening process. Please note that this may include pre-hire screening for marijuana, as well as other federally controlled substances due to Amentum’s role as a federal contractor and trusted partner to the US Government.

Other Responsibilities:

Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.

Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.

Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

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Compensation Details:

$150,000.00 - $195,000.00

The compensation range or hourly rate listed for this position is provided as a good-faith estimate of what the company intends to offer for this role at the time this posting was issued. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as job responsibilities, education, experience, skills, internal equity, market data, applicable collective bargaining agreements, and relevant laws.

Benefits Overview:

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to support you and your priorities. Offerings include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off and holidays
• Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching)
• Educational reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Tax-saving options
• Disability and life insurance
• Pet insurance

Note: Benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and applicable agreements. Positions governed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), or other employment contracts may include different provisions/benefits.

Original Posting:

10/01/2026 - Until Filled

Amentum anticipates this job requisition will remain open for at least three days, with a closing date no earlier than three days after the original posting. This timeline may change based on business needs.

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