Senior Integrated Scheduler for Defense Programs

Amro Fabricating Corporation; Gulfport (MS); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

HSA with company contribution

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Company-paid life and AD&D insurance

Short- and long-term disability

Job summary

Karman Space & Defense is seeking an Integrated Scheduler to connect program milestones, production sequencing, capacity forecasts, and cross-functional execution in Gulfport, MS. You will ensure schedule accuracy, integrate ERP data, and provide leadership with visibility into constraints and risks.

The role requires handling master schedules, resource loading, recovery planning, and collaboration with Engineering, Production, Quality, and Finance to deliver mission-ready manufacturing programs

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in project management, business, engineering, operations management, supply chain, construction management, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in project scheduling, project controls, production planning, manufacturing scheduling, or related discipline.
• Experience with Microsoft Project and enterprise scheduling systems.
• Understanding of Project Server or enterprise project management environments.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated master schedules.
• Experience with resource-loaded schedules and manpower planning.
• Strong Excel skills with data analysis, pivot tables, lookups, and reporting.
• Experience with ERP systems and incorporating actual labor hours and costs.
• Ability to analyze complex data and translate findings for leadership.
• Understanding of manufacturing or production environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintains enterprise scheduling standards, templates, calendars, milestones, and work breakdown structures to ensure consistency across programs.
• Oversees schedule development and updates in Microsoft Project and Project Server, ensuring schedules are resource-loaded, logically linked, baselined, and aligned with execution needs.
• Reviews schedules submitted by Program Schedulers and provides corrective guidance to strengthen logic, sequencing, resource loading, and feasibility.
• Supports Program Managers and Program Schedulers with integrated master schedule development, analysis, and recovery planning.
• Translates program schedules into actionable production schedules and partners with Operations to align manufacturing sequences, production rates, and work center requirements.
• Integrates ERP actuals—including labor hours, material costs, and performance data—into schedule analysis to improve forecasting and variance identification.
• Develops and maintains full-time equivalent (FTE) manpower plans and resource-capacity models to forecast staffing needs and identify constraints.
• Performs critical-path and near-critical-path analysis, identifies schedule risks, and develops recovery plans or alternative scenarios.
• Ensures cross-functional schedule integration across Engineering, Production, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, Facilities, and other teams.
• Provides leadership with accurate forecast dates, workload projections, and visibility into emerging risks and capacity constraints.

Skills

Project scheduling

Microsoft Project

Project Server

ERP systems

Excel analytics

Resource loading

Manpower planning

Critical path

Cross-functional

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in PM/Engineering

Equivalent experience

Tools

Deltek Costpoint

Job description

Karman Space & Defense is seeking an Integrated Scheduler to connect program milestones, production sequencing, capacity forecasts, and cross-functional execution in Gulfport, MS. You will ensure schedule accuracy, integrate ERP data, and provide leadership with visibility into constraints and risks.

The role requires handling master schedules, resource loading, recovery planning, and collaboration with Engineering, Production, Quality, and Finance to deliver mission-ready manufacturing programs