Senior Scheduler

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.

• 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.