Project Manager IV

Project Manager IV (Scheduler)

The Project Manager IV (Scheduler) provides Waterfall and Agile project control and scheduling for applicable projects/acquisitions.

Responsibilities and Daily Tasks

• Develop and maintain an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) to ensure alignment with program objectives, deliverables, and contractual obligations.
• Analyze applicable projects/acquisitions, IMSs and dependencies - especially inter-project dependencies
• Analyze delay impacts and major schedule changes.
• Combine multiple WBSs with other schedules to form an overarching IMS.
• Coordinate, participate and facilitate planning meetings and backlog reviews with internal team members and external stakeholders
• Create and brief Program Managers (PMs) and Leadership on schedule status of applicable projects/acquisitions
• Develop executive-level schedule metrics, management reports and project dashboards
• Establish input/output rhythms and schedule update processes to ensure seamless coordination and timely decision making.
• Facilitate program/project meetings to discuss and review schedules with all stakeholders
• Interface and communicate with other internal team members and external stakeholders to gather inputs, provide status, etc.
• Meet regularly with assigned PMs to ensure schedule accuracy and resolve schedule issues
• Solve problems and provide recommendations for corrective actions to keep projects within scope and on time.
• Support long-term roadmap development, review, and revision cycles to enhance strategic planning efforts

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance or higher
• Bachelor's Degree

• 7 - 10 years of experience building, analyzing and managing schedules, on a daily basis, in MS Project.
• Able to work independently
• Detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy in schedule development and analysis.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Experience using Microsoft Teams and Outlook
• Advanced experience developing requested views and reports in MS Project.
• Advanced experience running a DCMA 14 point analysis using forProject Analyzer, SSI, Steelray or similar software
• Advanced experience setting up schedule dependencies and viewing critical and driving paths.
• Advanced experience using Microsoft Office Suite
• Advanced experience using Milestone Professional to create Gantt chart views, DataGraphs and Roadmaps from MS Project and Excel files
• Expert using MS Project 2019 and newer versions.

Desired Skills and Qualifications

• Agile SAFe Certification

• Experience using Schedule Risk Assessment (SRA) tools
• Experience with Agile SAFe methodology, VersionOne, JIRA, O365 Office
• Experience with Baseline Change Control Process
• Familiar with tools such as MS Project Web App (PWA), Structured Solutions Inc. (SSI) Tools for MS Project, and Monte Carlo Analysis tools.
• MS Project certification (e.g., Blue Belt, Masterclass, etc.)

• PMP certification