Senior Scheduler IV

ARES Corporation; Cleveland (OH); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

HSA/FSA Accounts

Life & Disability Insurance

Critical Illness & Accident Insurance

ESOP

401(k) Plan

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Job summary

ARES Corporation seeks a Senior Scheduler to join the NASA CPSS team, supporting Artemis missions. Location options include Huntsville, AL, Houston, TX, and Cleveland, OH with onsite requirements.

The role focuses on developing, maintaining, and integrating complex schedules aligned with the NASA Handbook, delivering timely status, risk assessments, and data-driven recommendations. Ideal candidates have 13–15+ years of scheduling experience, strong MS Project, Milestones, Acumen Fuse, and PMP

Qualifications

• Experience performing probabilistic schedule risk analysis and schedule health analysis.
• Experience using Milestones Professional and schedule risk tools (Full Monte, Acumen Fuse, etc.)
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.
• Advanced experience using Microsoft Project. Experience with implementation and management of integrated scheduling tools.
• Basic understanding of EIA-748 standard earned value management (EVM) principles
• 13-15+ years of experience
• Experience using software like Acumen Fuse, Milestones Professional, Onepager Professional, and Sharepoint is desired.
• PMP certification or other related certifications

Responsibilities

• The Senior Scheduler is responsible for developing, managing, and optimizing project schedules in alignment with NASA Schedule Management Handbook.
• This role supports projects of varying size and complexity by ensuring schedule accuracy, integrity, and visibility across the program lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain detailed, logic-driven project schedules that comply with NASA Schedule Management Handbook standards.
• Create proposal schedules, full project life cycle schedules, and closeout schedules to support program planning and execution.
• Integrate multiple project schedules to enable cross-project resource analysis and inform decision-making.
• Perform routine schedule health assessments, generate performance metrics, and conduct trend analysis on a weekly to monthly basis.
• Participate in project meetings and collaborate with technical points of contact to plan tasks and milestones, gather status updates, and present schedule progress.
• Prepare and deliver schedule status packages, including summary reports, milestone updates, and critical path assessments.
• Conduct what-if analyses to evaluate schedule workarounds and provide data-driven recommendations.
• Perform recurring schedule risk assessments, including uncertainty and sensitivity analyses.
• Integrate contractor and contributor schedules into comprehensive Integrated Master Schedules (IMS).
• Provide expert scheduling guidance in response to rapidly evolving programmatic requirements.
• Support optimization of project schedules and resource allocations to improve overall program performance.

Skills

Probabilistic schedule risk analysis

Schedule health analysis

What-if analysis

MS Office suite

Microsoft Project

Acumen Fuse

Milestones Professional

SharePoint

PMP certification

Education

PMP certification

Job description

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Full Time Professional Cleveland, OH, US

Senior Scheduler

Join the NASA CPSS team at Marshall Space Flight Center as a Senior Scheduler supporting the Science and Technology Office (STO). This is your opportunity to contribute to the Artemis missions and shape the future of space exploration. This position is located in Huntsville, AL, Houston, TX, and Cleveland OH. Due to contractual requirements, this role requires onsite support.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• The Senior Scheduler is responsible for developing, managing, and optimizing project schedules in alignment with the NASA Schedule Management Handbook.
• This role supports projects of varying size and complexity by ensuring schedule accuracy, integrity, and visibility across the program lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain detailed, logic-driven project schedules that comply with NASA Schedule Management Handbook standards.
• Create proposal schedules, full project life cycle schedules, and closeout schedules to support program planning and execution.
• Integrate multiple project schedules to enable cross-project resource analysis and inform decision-making.
• Perform routine schedule health assessments, generate performance metrics, and conduct trend analysis on a weekly to monthly basis.
• Participate in project meetings and collaborate with technical points of contact to plan tasks and milestones, gather status updates, and present schedule progress.
• Prepare and deliver schedule status packages, including summary reports, milestone updates, and critical path assessments.
• Conduct what-if analyses to evaluate schedule workarounds and provide data-driven recommendations.
  Perform recurring schedule risk assessments, including uncertainty and sensitivity analyses.
• Integrate contractor and contributor schedules into comprehensive Integrated Master Schedules (IMS).
• Provide expert scheduling guidance in response to rapidly evolving programmatic requirements.
• Support optimization of project schedules and resource allocations to improve overall program performance.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Experience performing probabilistic schedule risk analysis and schedule health analysis.
• Experience using Milestones Professional and schedule risk tools (Full Monte, Acumen Fuse, etc.) desired.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.
• Advanced experience using Microsoft Project. Experience with implementation and management of integrated scheduling tools.
• Basic understanding of EIA-748 standard earned value management (EVM) principles
• Desired qualifications/non-essential skills required:
• 13-15+ years of experience
• Experience using software like Acumen Fuse, Milestones Professional, Onepager Professional, and Sharepoint is desired.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or other related certifications

ARES offers a competitive compensation and benefit package. Full time employees may participate in:

• Medical Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• HSA/FSA Accounts
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Critical Illness & Accident Insurance
• ESOP
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid Time Off & Holidays

ARES is an equal opportunity employer and complies with E-Verify. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and fostering an inclusive culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law. ARES shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a).