Sr Scheduler

Senior Scheduler

Continental Electronics Corporation is a leading provider of RF technologies and innovative solutions with 80 years of proven performance. CEC has experienced significant recent growth and has established itself as the go-to supplier for a diversified product line supporting a wide spectrum of markets from commercial products, military customers, to space research laboratories.

The Senior Scheduler supports the development, adherence to, and continual improvement of CEC program scheduling processes and performs development, maintenance, analysis, and reporting of CEC program schedules.

Responsibilities

• Perform schedule development, maintenance, and dissemination of schedule data and reports
• Work within and helps develop scheduling processes, seeking continual process improvement, and ensuring all program schedules accurately and consistently reflect how the work is accomplished
• Provide both consistent and accurate schedule updates and related data in a format that aids the PMO and customers in making sound decisions
• Develop and maintain integrated master program schedules, supporting the execution of CEC programs and ensuring all projects are tracked consistently through the life cycle of the program and delivered on time
• Status schedules that are currently in execution, and work with senior leadership, functional leads, program managers and department managers to obtain accurate schedule and performance data monthly
• Support the development of schedule risk analysis processes and perform schedule risk and critical path analysis as required
• Develop presentation material that consists of Gantt; PERT; Critical Path; earned value management metrics, schedule health status, and related schedule performance data
• Assist the PMO in assessing schedule performance and identify and facilitate resolution or mitigation planning for critical schedule risks and issues
• Ensure compliance with DCMA, DFAR/FAR, and contractual deliveries as dictated by data item description (DID) and contract data requirements list (CDRL) or similar customer requirements
• Uphold the company's core values of Integrity, Innovation, Accountability, and Teamwork
• Demonstrate behavior consistent with the company's Code of Ethics and Conduct
• It is the responsibility of every employee to report to their manager or a member of senior management any quality problems or defects in order for corrective action to be implemented and to avoid recurrence of the problem
• Duties may be modified or assigned at any time to meet the needs of the business

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (B.S. or B.A.) in Program Management, Business, Engineering, or related field and 8 years of relevant project planning and scheduling experience; or 12 years of project planning and scheduling experience without a degree
• Experience in Program Management, Program Planning or Scheduling departments, preferably in the defense industry sector
• At least 3 years of experience building and statusing schedules in Microsoft Project
• Selected candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance issued by the U.S. Government throughout the course of their employment
• This job requires the applicant to be a " U.S. Person" (or otherwise authorized by the U.S. Government) to access export controlled information. A U.S. Person is a lawful permanent resident as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or individuals granted refugee or asylee status in the U.S. are considered U.S. persons.

Desired Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in MS Project and MS Project add-ons for risk analysis, health status and reporting
• PMI scheduling or project management professional certified (PMI-PMP) (PMI-SP)

Key Competencies

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to effectively communicate with team members, peers, management, and across multiple functional departments
• Proactive, analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, influencing and attention to detail skills
• Results-oriented and organized with the ability to plan and deliver against multiple deadlines