Senior Scheduler

What You'll Do:

Define and roll out the scheduling system 

• Establish the company's scheduling standard for Government Programs: WBS and coding structures, calendars, activity and milestone conventions, constraint and logic rules, baseline control, and file governance. 

• Build the Microsoft Project template architecture, custom fields, reporting views, and health-check tooling that every program will run on. 

• Write and own the scheduling process documentation, including the baseline change control procedure and the recurring status cycle. 

• Train and drive adoption across Program Managers, Chief Engineers, and Mission Systems Engineers. 

• Define how schedule data integrates with cost, risk, staffing, and customer reporting as those functions mature. 

Own the portfolio IMS 

• Serve as the authoritative owner of all Microsoft Project files and the Integrated Master Schedule for every program in the Government Programs portfolio. 

• Build and maintain master/subproject architectures with cross-program dependencies, shared resource structures, and clean vertical and horizontal traceability. 

• Align schedule architecture to the contract WBS, WBS dictionary, SOW/PWS scope, and CDRL delivery obligations. 

• Establish performance measurement baselines and control changes to them through a documented, auditable process. 

Analyze, not just maintain 

• Own critical path and driving path analysis, float analysis, and schedule margin strategy across programs. 

• Run schedule health assessments and drive findings to closure by consulting responsible leads. 

• Build and run what-if, recovery, and de-scope scenarios to support program and executive decision-making. 

• Perform schedule risk analysis and tie risk register items to schedule margin and contingency. 

• Identify schedule risk before the program owner does — long-lead procurement, test asset availability, integration and range access, qualification cycles, and software and ground segment dependencies. 

Face the customer 

• Own schedule content and narrative for Government program reviews (PMRs, SRRs, PDRs, CDRs, TIMs). 

• Prepare and deliver schedule-related contract deliverables and Government reporting. 

• Support capture and proposal efforts with proposal IMS/IMP structures, schedule basis of estimate, milestone and payment schedules, and schedule realism defense. 

Grow the function 

• Build the scheduling and planning capability as the portfolio grows, including scoping and mentoring additional schedulers or planners over time. 

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Business, or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered. 

• 10+ years of program scheduling, planning, or project controls experience, with a substantial majority in the space industry — satellite, spacecraft, payload, launch, or ground segment development programs. 

• Demonstrated ownership of an IMS on at least one major space development program, from initial build through baseline through execution and delivery. 

• Track record of defining and rolling out scheduling process, standards, or tooling across an organization — not solely executing within someone else's system. 

• Expert-level Microsoft Project proficiency: master/subproject architectures, external dependencies, resource pools, custom fields and formulas, reporting views, and baseline management. 

• Deep command of schedule logic, critical path method, float and margin management, and network analysis. 

• Fluency with schedule health assessment methodology. 

• Working knowledge of U.S. Government contract types (FFP, CPFF, CPIF, OTA) and how contract structure drives schedule, deliverable, and reporting obligations. 

• Credibility and confidence to defend schedule realism. 

• Must be a U.S. Person as defined under ITAR (22 CFR §120.62) and eligible to access export-controlled technical data. 

• Must be eligible and willing to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance. 

Bonus Points For The Following:

• Active U.S. Government security clearance. 

• Experience with Earned Value Management Systems, including cost and schedule integration and IPMDAR, CPR, or equivalent reporting. 

• Experience developing and maintaining resource-loaded schedules to support staffing and capacity forecasting. 

• Experience scheduling integrated hardware, software, and ground/site-integration efforts within a single IMS. 

• Experience supporting DCMA or Government schedule surveillance, Integrated Baseline Reviews, or joint schedule reviews. 

• Experience in a startup or high-growth environment where process had to be built rather than inherited. 

Additional Requirements

This is a fast-paced, high-impact environment - flexibility to work extended hours or weekends during critical periods is expected.