Project Scheduler

a.i. solutions is seeking an experienced Project Scheduler to develop, maintain, and assess a program Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) based on customer requirements, program manager’s program plan/input, and program’s project lead’s plan/input with a high level of accuracy.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the Program Manager during all phases of a program in monitoring program’s day-to-day state-of-health assessment and, as required, support team leads to mitigate program cost/schedule issues.
• Expected to build, baseline, and maintain schedules consistent with the National Defense Industrial Association’s Planning & Schedule Excellence Guide (PASEG)
• Expected to assess schedule health and analyze plan’s risk and resource using Structured Solutions Inc (SSI) tools (or equivalent)
• Responsible for providing weekly program reporting to the Program Manager.
• Communication (verbal and written) to program manager, customer, and senior management of schedule status through the results of key analysis.
• Provide support to program reviews that demonstrate thorough cost and schedule integration.
• Participation in program’s daily standups, weekly status, and other program status tracking activities
• Work with program’s engineering, operations, test, and suppliers to directly input status, assess issues, as well as develop workarounds or mitigations for late tasks.
• Work with program managers, business operations, engineering, and operations in support of designing, developing and maintaining task schedules on select programs.
• Work with program’s project leads (engineering leads, operations, quality, procurements, and test) on a weekly basis to build initial plans as well as assess program status and develop/propose corrective/recovery action plans (this may occur directly or during group meetings)
• Serve as subject matter expert in program scheduling.
• Support a program’s proposal team in their planning, documenting, and cost assessment prior to proposal release.

Minimum Qualifications:              

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or related field (equivalent experience accepted in lieu of degree)           
• 6 years of professional experience in Accounting, Finance, Program Management or Program Scheduling in an engineering/manufacturing environment (preferably aerospace).
• 2-3 years of experience in implementing schedule health tools, and metrics.
• Experience working with Agile scrum teams, agile project management, and agile software development environment. 
• Direct experience in developing and maintaining schedules and assessing/reporting their health, resource planning, and risk using Structured Solutions Inc Tools (SSI, or equivalent).
• U.S. Citizenship

Desired Background:

• Direct experience in developing (or helping to develop) a work break down (WBS) structure from a statement of work.
• Demonstrated Microsoft Project experience.
• Demonstrated experience in using MS Office suite products (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.).
• The ability to interface and influence at all levels of a program and organization.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• The ability to thrive in a deadline-oriented environment.
• Displays exemplary ethics and business conduct and performs work cognizant of safe work practices.
• Project Management and/or Earned Value Management Certification is a plus.