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The Airborne Systems Business Area, part of the Defense Sector at Leidos, currently has an opening for a cleared Program Analyst Scheduler to work in our Beavercreek, OH office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the Air Force Research Lab, Air Force Lifecycle Management Center, and other DoD missions. Your role will be to support our diverse portfolio of programs through a combination of software design and development, hardware interfacing and integration, laboratory experimentation, ground and flight testing to deploy cutting edge, next generation solutions.

Primary Responsibilities.

• Responsible for applying scheduling theory/practice to develop the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and related artifacts in compliance with applicable standards and policies.
• Responsible for implementing practices to align the time phasing and plans for resources with the IMS to provide an integrated technical, schedule, and resource/cost baseline and forecast/ ETC for programs.
• Responsible for generating and maintaining a program-level detailed IMS capturing each LOE discrete subtasks.
• Responsible for coordinating with customer and peer-teaming stakeholders to compile multiple stakeholder IMSs into one Master Program Schedule.
• Participate in new business proposals through scheduling functional support.
• Serves as a scheduling leader in assisting programs with issue identification & resolution solutions.
• Implement program scheduling business rhythms & controls.
• Develop scheduling artifacts to meet contractual/project requirements.
• Monitor, analyze, and report performance against baseline schedules to ensure that contractual, cost, and schedule objectives are met.
• Significant interface with Program Managers, Contracts, and Senior Technical Personnel, as well as other organizations.

Basic Qualifications.

• Bachelor’s degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or a Master’s degree with 6-10 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, three of which must be in the DoD.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must have an active DoD TS clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI
• Must have advanced expertise using Microsoft Project scheduling software
• Must possess an understanding of advanced scheduling theory including experience with:
  • Schedule status processes
  • Schedule health assessment (e.g., 14-Point/DECM Analysis)
  • Resource loading/management
  • Cost and schedule integration
  • Baseline change control processes
  • Schedule execution metrics (BEI, CEI, CPLI, SV, SPI etc.)
  • Schedule Risk Assessment (SRA)/Monte Carlo Analysis and tools
  • Critical Path Method (CPM) and Margin/Float management

• Requires a high-level understanding of programmatic scheduling theory and practice.
• Ability to create “what-if” scenarios within the schedule that inform program leadership.
• Strong desire to grow and learn new technologies.
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally from informal one-on-one discussions or in a small group environment.
• Ability to work within a dynamic work environment, ability to handle multiple tasks at once (multi-task)

Preferred Qualifications.

• Active DoD TS/SCI clearance
• Familiar with Agile Methodologies, preferably SCRUM or Kanban
• Experience with Atlassian tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket
• Intermediate to advanced expertise using Structured Solutions Inc. (SSI) Tools for Microsoft Project
• Program Management Professional (PMP) certification

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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.