Senior Scheduler

Join the NASA CPSS team at Johnson Space Center as a Senior Scheduler. Your future duties and responsibilities: The Senior Scheduler is responsible for developing, managing, and optimizing project schedules in alignment with the NASA Schedule Management Handbook. This role supports projects of varying size and complexity by ensuring schedule accuracy, integrity, and visibility across the program lifecycle. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain detailed, logic-driven project schedules that comply with NASA Schedule Management Handbook standards. Create proposal schedules, full project life cycle schedules, and closeout schedules to support program planning and execution. Integrate multiple project schedules to enable cross-project resource analysis and inform decision-making. Perform routine schedule health assessments, generate performance metrics, and conduct trend analysis on a weekly to monthly basis. Participate in project meetings and collaborate with technical points of contact to plan tasks and milestones, gather status updates, and present schedule progress. Prepare and deliver schedule status packages, including summary reports, milestone updates, and critical path assessments. Conduct what-if analyses to evaluate schedule workarounds and provide data-driven recommendations. Perform recurring schedule risk assessments, including uncertainty and sensitivity analyses. Integrate contractor and contributor schedules into comprehensive Integrated Master Schedules (IMS). Lead a team of schedulers in integrating many sub-tier schedules, integrate those schedules in one master schedule, and create reporting schedules that integrate with peer NASA Programs. Provide expert scheduling guidance in response to rapidly evolving programmatic requirements. Support optimization of project schedules and resource allocations to improve overall program performance. Required qualifications to be successful in this role: Experience performing probabilistic schedule risk analysis (SRA and JCL) and schedule health analysis. Experience using Milestones Professional and schedule risk tools (Full Monte, Acumen Fuse, etc.) Advanced experience with Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc. -Advanced experience using Microsoft Project. -Experience with implementation and management of integrated scheduling tools. Basic understanding of EIA-748 standard earned value management (EVM) principles Desired qualifications/non-essential skills required: 20+ years of experience -Prior NASA/Aerospace experience a plus Experience using software like JACS, Acumen Fuse, Milestones Professional, ASIT (Artemis Schedule Integration Tool) Onepager Professional, and Sharepoint. Working knowledge of NASA NPR 7120.5F and experience developing a NASA SRA and JCL in support of a Key Decision Point (KDP) for an Agency Baseline Commitment (ABC). Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or other related certifications ARES Benefits: ARES offers a competitive compensation and benefit package. Full time employees may participate in: Medical Insurance Dental Insurance Vision Insurance HSA/FSA Accounts Life & Disability Insurance Critical Illness & Accident Insurance ESOP 401(k) Plan Paid Time Off & Holidays ARES is an equal opportunity employer and complies with E-Verify. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and fostering an inclusive culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law. ARES shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). #J-18808-Ljbffr