ManTech is seeking a motivate, career and customer-oriented Master Scheduler to join our team in McLean, VA .
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Support Program with Integrated Master Schedules that are developed and maintained for multiple projects to summary a program portfolio. This will require the liaison with mission partners and task owners to determine the sequencing and duration of activities.
Create a project baseline for each project and monitor project progress against that baseline.
Identify and resolve resource and schedule conflicts and constraints among multiple projects.
Provide impact analysis of schedule changes; identify schedule variances and opportunities and proactively develop mitigation strategies for the Project Management team.
Develop network diagrams to determine critical paths and critical path activities.
Evaluate “what if” scenarios to determine how the project schedules are affected and review these project schedules and brief management on slippage or potential slippage; identify root causes of any issues.
Experience in providing detailed analysis and reporting of project schedules; from project inception; through the development phases; to project completion.
Attend pertinent project meetings and proactively validate schedule milestones, document engineering constraints and/or slippage or acceleration of work activities while analyzing emerging risk items and performance trends for root causes.
Create and maintain project schedules and assist in driving organizational activities to those
schedules.
Work with project manager to establish and plan near-term and long-term priorities.
Work with customer and teammates to assure universal and thorough understanding of each equipment replacement and facility project schedule so that all deliverables align with master schedules.
Using project schedules, establish resource plans.
Assist business development with new project schedules, resource estimation, and availability planning.
Work closely with program management to track and report performance metrics.
Act as a focal point for communication both internally and externally on planning and schedule related information of both customers and stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications:
Have an understanding of policies; methods; and procedures that includes advanced Planning and Scheduling techniques.
Ability to work in a “team” environment and share knowledge of discipline specific work in both a vertical (up and down the org chart) and horizontal (across disciplines and departments) orientation.
Ability to make well-formed, rational decisions and demonstrate problem-solving skills within organizational policies and procedures.
Excellent communication, organizational, and written skills.
Ability to provide management and guidance to other scheduler/planner staff.
Ability to exercise administrative judgment on a regular and continuous basis and assume responsibility for decisions, consequences and results having an impact on people and quality of service to customers.
Experience with ServiceNow Project Planning/Scheduling.
Previous experience in scheduling and planning equipment and/or facility projects.
Working knowledge of the following:
All common MS Office applications, with emphasis on spreadsheet analysis and graphing Scheduling software, specifically MS Project or similar
Bachelors Degree with a concentration in highly analytical courses (e.g., Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Statistics, etc.).
BA/BS and 7 or more years of experience, or a combination of education and work experience equivalent to 11 or more years.
CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS:
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Must be able to remain in stationary position for up to 50% of the time.
Must be able to work in an office environment and be able to freely move within this space to utilize office equipment as well as interface with co-workers and customer.
Must be able to effectively use IT peripherals such as laptop, desktop, printer, fax machine, etc.
Must be able to deliver presentations as needed.
Must be able to review; decipher and understand