Description
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Leidos Chief Information Office (CIO) Services team is seeking a Sr. Program Scheduler.
About the Team
Leidos CIOS is the global CIO Services organization, enabling the enterprise to execute its mission to grow through innovation, collaboration, and effective use of information and technology. Through our world class talent and technology, we will provide differentiated and agile services, partnering with the enterprise to strategically transform, defend and grow the business, developing and implementing solutions that we can use to support our customers’ mission.
Your greatest work is ahead!
As Sr. Program Scheduler you will be responsible for all aspects of creating and maintaining a resource loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) schedule to provide the basis for the time phased budget and estimate to complete cost data for the CIOS Project Management Office (PMO) program and project portfolio. In depth IMS Project Online skills will be required to facilitate meetings and work one-on-one to ascertain project activities, resources, requirements, predecessors, successors, impacts, milestones, etc. You will construct and maintain the MS Project Online plan daily, run reports, and generate various views.
This role reports through the Digital Modernization Sector Scheduling Manager the larger enterprise-wide Leidos Corporate Earned Value Management (EVM) Center of Excellence (COE). The Leidos Corporate EVM COE is a team leading and executing the core responsibilities of scheduling, planning, EVMS, the associated infrastructure and tools, implementations, training and surveillance for Leidos. This role will matrix report to the CIOS IT Project Lifecycle Development & Operations Sr. Manager and support the CIOS PMO program and project portfolio.
Primary Responsibilities
Apply scheduling theory to develop and maintain a resource loaded Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) schedule using best practices as in the Planning and Scheduling Excellence Guide (PASEG).
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.
Demonstrate strong communications skills with the ability to work with the functional areas to identify and maintain all schedule tasks and dependencies.
Generate, publish and maintain an accurate a Master Schedule, using MS Project Online and Project Web App (PWA), showing the tasks and resources required to deliver on-time, per customer requirements and milestones working in conjunction with the Project Manager and with input from the cross-functional team.
Lead monthly schedule update meetings with the Project Managers, to review and update Estimate to Complete (ETC) labor hours.
Lead regular schedule reviews of the portfolio with the PMO team.
Work closely with multiple industry and government performers to develop detailed schedules, 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 and generate a portfolio report of major milestones, decision points, project life-cycle and other project events
Perform resource leveling across the portfolio.
Identify critical path and task dependencies.
Set and maintain the baseline schedule.
Perform ‘what if’ scenarios within the schedule.
Develop schedule version control processes.
Generate schedule reports based on planned vs actual dates.
Basic Qualifications
Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance (US citizenship required).
BA degree and 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience.
Advanced expertise using Microsoft Project Online.
Experience using Project Web App.
Scheduling theory and related best-practices (e.g., PASEG).
Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) architecture (e.g., WBS or IMP based).
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
Experience using tools like Microsoft Project Web App (PWA) connected to MS Project Online, Structured Solutions Inc. (SSI) Tools for Microsoft Project, and Monte Carlo Analysis tools.
Advanced Excel skill set including Power BI, pivot tables, macros, lookup tables
Experience with Scheduling for Agile and linking Microsoft Project Online and Jira.
Experience with EVM/EVM Lite.
Program Management Professional (PMP) certification
Scheduling Professional (SP) certification
Original Posting:
March 21, 2025
For U.S. Positions: While 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 $101,400.00 - $183,300.00
The 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.
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