Master Scheduler

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:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

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