Integrated Master Scheduler

DescriptionLeidos is seeking a highly qualified candidate for a Integrated Master Scheduler role to work in our San Antonio, TX office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the Integrated Defensive Cyber Systems mission. The ideal candidate will have ​experience working on complex systems​. This position is located near Lackland Air Force Base; all work is onsite.Primary Responsibilities• Responsible for applying scheduling theory to develop and maintain a resource-loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) as the basis for the Integrated Defensive Cyber System (IDCS).• Implement program scheduling business rhythms, developing baseline schedules and associated artifacts to meet contractual/project requirements, and monitoring, analyze, and report performance against baseline schedules to ensure that contractual, cost, and schedule• Generate, publish, and maintain an accurate Master Schedule, showing the tasks and resources required to deliver on time, per customer requirements and milestones• Work closely with multiple industry and government performers to develop detailed schedules, and keep these schedules current and seamlessly integrated into the Master Schedule.• 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.• Develop schedule version control processes, policies, and procedures and ensure they are followed during the development and maintenance of schedules.• 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 and 8+ years of project/program management experience.• Must be a US citizen and possess a minimum of a Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.• Strong communications skills with the ability to work with the functional areas to identify and maintain all scheduled tasks and dependencies.• In-depth IMS Project skill is required to facilitate meetings and work one-on-one to ascertain project activities, resources, requirements, predecessors, successors, impacts, milestones, etc.• Proven working knowledge of MS Project and/or other schedule management tools (e.g., MS Project Server/Deltek Open Plan)• Strong knowledge of scheduling theory and related best practices (e.g., PASEG)• Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) architecture (e.g., WBS or IMP-based) experience• Proven working knowledge of Critical Path• Baseline Change Control and IMS configuration management.• Ability to work independently with overall responsibility for the Master Schedule• Proven ability to work well within a team/collaborative environment.Preferred Qualifications• Prior experience supporting Air Force Cyber or USCYBERCOM• Prior experience with defensive cyber• Prior experience with Confluence and Microsoft ProjectOriginal Posting Date:2024-07-19While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.Pay Range:Pay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.