Master Project Scheduler

Job Description

The Master Scheduler provides integrated project management support and oversight to control the master schedule for IT projects of large scope and high complexity. The Project Scheduler is responsible for working closely with technical experts, project leads and project managers in planning, creating, and managing project schedules. The candidate must have senior level experience of hands-on integrated master scheduling and will be expected to work with program and project managers to capture all efforts, link and sequence efforts, assign resources to activities, establish duration of activities, conduct schedule risk analysis, update status and progress of projects and maintain the baselines. Strong MS Project and Project Server experience is required.

The Candidate must have:

• Senior/Expert Level scheduling skills
• Ability to work independently managing the Master Schedule effectively
• Strong communication skills to collaborate with various functional teams to identify and maintain schedule tasks and dependencies
• Strong analytical and planning skills
• Ability to learn quickly and work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Good working ethics and ability to treat documents with confidentiality
• Ability to work effectively within a team setting
• Ability to multitask and work with changing priorities
• Ability to complete tasks in a timely manner with minimal supervision

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Utilize scheduling theory to develop and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and related documents following Government Auditing Office (GAO) and DCMA standards of best practice
• Work with cross-functional teams to generate and manage an accurate master schedule to meet customer milestones
• Create and sustain resource-loaded project schedules using detailed project documentation and input from project mangers/teams
• Conduct regular schedule reviews to ensure accountability and proactive issue identification among project managers
• Track, analyze, and report critical path analysis, metrics, schedule and task status accurately to allow the project teams to manage their projects and evaluate weekly reports
• Ensure accuracy of project schedules and perform version control while tracking baseline variances
• Monitor projects’ progress, including identifying critical path activities and reviewing forecasts and progress achieved to date
• Facilitate risk mitigation and issue management through detailed schedule analysis.
• Review, compare, and analyze schedule performance against baseline program plans
• Use MS Project files, JIRA, and Confluence data as the source documents for updating milestones
• Upload, link and maintain MS Project schedules in MS Project Server environment

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