Senior IMS Scheduler w/Secret Clearance

• Maintain and update integrated master schedules, milestone structures, dependencies, assumptions, and critical path logic.
• Review schedule artifacts, predecessor/successor relationships, constraints, durations, status dates, milestone evidence, and supporting assumptions.
• Validate schedule logic and identify risks such as missing dependencies, dangling logic, hard constraints, stale status dates, unsupported milestone claims, unrealistic durations, and sequencing conflicts.
• Assess whether reported dates, assumptions, execution plans, and milestone statuses are realistic based on available evidence and cross-functional inputs.
• Support schedule health checks, schedule management plans, schedule update packages, and recurring schedule reviews.
• Identify acceleration, resequencing, tradeoff, and minimum-viable implementation options for client consideration.
• Maintain traceability between schedule updates, source evidence, milestone owners, dependency logic, risk status, and downstream reporting products.
• Coordinate with risk, resource, and dashboard personnel to align schedule posture with risk posture, dependency status, and executive reporting.
• Prepare concise schedule analysis, executive summaries, issue papers, and recommendations for client review.
• Support schedule-related inputs to risk registers, bottleneck registers, governance packages, decision logs, and management reports.
• Participate in transition and knowledge-transfer activities to understand current schedule structure, assumptions, known issues, update cadence, and repository locations.
• Recommend corrective actions when schedule products no longer support decision-quality oversight.
• Ensure schedule updates are performed in accordance with approved client direction, version-control practices, and repository requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Finance, Data/Analytics, Public Administration, or a related field preferred.
• 5+ years of integrated master scheduling, critical path analysis, program scheduling, project controls, or complex program planning experience.
• Advanced Microsoft Project experience required.
• Experience maintaining IMS logic, dependencies, baselines, constraints, milestones, assumptions, schedule risk, and executive reporting.
• Experience performing schedule health checks, critical path analysis, variance analysis, and schedule realism assessments.
• Ability to identify schedule drivers, sequencing conflicts, dependency gaps, and acceleration opportunities.
• Ability to translate technical schedule data into clear, concise, client-ready analysis and recommendations.
• Experience coordinating with program managers, technical teams, risk analysts, dashboard/reporting analysts, and senior stakeholders.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Power BI, Excel, or similar collaboration/reporting environments preferred.
• PMI-SP, PMP, or equivalent scheduling/program management certification preferred

• Active Secret clearance or higher required.

• Remote (DC Metro Area)

• The salary range of this position is $135,000 - $150,000 commensurate with experience and achievement.

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