Gray Analytics was founded in 2018 with a vision to bring innovative and creative solutions in the cybersecurity, IT, engineering, and scientific spheres. Our customers span across the commercial and federal domains with our goal being to bring excellent customer service to our clients and employees.
Without the bureaucracy that often exists in larger corporations, Gray Analytics offers increased work flexibility, visibility in company progress, and greater opportunities for advancement. It's with our employees' support that we can help our clients achieve mission and operational success.
At Gray Analytics, our goal is simple: to help our country, its businesses, and its organizations improve security in the Cyber realm. Period.
Position: FMS Scheduler
Location: Huntsville, AL
Schedule : Full-Time / Exempt
Position Description:
Gray Analytics is seeking a candidate who will support the IFMC International Program office supporting IBCS Foreign Military Sales. The candidate will be responsible for all aspects of creating a maintaining an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) for this project. They will be required to facilitate meetings and work one-on-one to ascertain project activities, resources, requirements, predecessors, successors, impacts, milestones, etc. They will construct and maintain the MS Project plan daily, distribute weekly, run reports, and generate various views.
Primary Responsibilities:
•Responsible for applying scheduling theory to develop and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and related artifacts in compliance with scheduling best practices and applicable standards
•Implement program scheduling business rhythms, developing baseline schedules and associated artifacts to meet contractual/project requirements, and monitoring, analyzing, and reporting performance against baseline schedules to ensure that contractual, cost and schedule
•Strong communications skills with the ability to work with the functional areas to identify and maintain all schedule tasks and dependencies.
•In conjunction with the Project Manager, and cross-functional team, generate, publish and maintain an accurate Master Schedule, using MS Project, showing the tasks and resources required to deliver on-time, per customer requirements and milestones.
•Work closely with PMO, development, operations and other project teams to develop detailed schedules, keeping schedules current and integrated into the Master Schedule.
•Provide hands-on development of layered schedules detailing how a specific project is progressing including how the project contributes to overarching program requirements and objectives.
•Develop and maintain linkages, dependencies and inter-dependencies with related projects.
•Ensure internal and external dependencies are documented and tracked for risk management.
•Identify major milestones, decision points, project life-cycle and other project events.
•Identify critical path and task dependencies.
•Set and maintain the baseline schedule and track all changes to the baselined schedule on a weekly basis.
•Perform 'what if' scenarios within the schedule.
•Perform schedule estimating through elicitation of team members and other stakeholders to capture estimations of new work, updated actuals and remaining work.
•Champion and support continuous Risk Mitigation and Issue Management through schedule analysis.
•Generate schedule reports based on planned vs actual work.
Basic Qualifications:
•Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) with 3 years of relevant experience
•MS Project and Milestone Professional
•Scheduling theory and related best-practices
•Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) architecture
•Understanding of Critical Path
•Ability to work independently with overall responsibility for the Master Schedule
•Proven ability to work well within a team/collaborative environment.
Security Requirements:
•Must have a current SECRET clearance
About Gray Analytics
Gray Analytics values our employees as our most important resource. To showcase these values, we offer not only traditional medical, disability, life, etc. coverages that begin on day one of employment, but also unique benefits to improve our employees' quality of life. Some of these unique benefits include:
•A PTO policy based on total years of experience, not years of service to the company.
•PTO is available for use immediately at hire, subject to company needs.
•Eligibility for 401K contributions and company matching, Pet Insurance through Spot, Flexible Spending Account, and Tuition and Professional Development Funds begin on day one of employment.
•Charitable donations program on a yearly and quarterly basis where employees can nominate a non-profit of choice to receive donations.
Gray Analytics is an Equal Opportunity Employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status or disability. Gray Analytics, Inc. welcomes minority and veteran applicants.