Earned Value Scheduler Lead

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking an Earned Value Scheduler Lead to join our Client's team.

We're looking for an Earned Value (EV) Scheduler Lead for Amentum's Missile Defense Division. The EV Scheduler Lead reports to the EV Manager supporting the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) Contract. The EV Scheduler Lead will lead a team of EV schedulers that are matrixed across multiple task orders and ensure full compliance with documented EV standards and guidelines, the IRES EVM System Description, the Planning and Scheduling Excellence Guide (PASEG) and established best practices.

The candidate will be responsible for the following:

Leadership & Management:

Provide day-to-day leadership, guidance and mentorship to the EV schedulers and other team members on best practices and EVMS principles

Develop and deliver training to project personnel on EVMS requirements and scheduling best practices

Ensure schedules comply with EVMS guidelines

Assist with EVMS implementation

Provide accurate schedule deliverables to customers; and ensure EV schedulers develop and maintain schedule artifacts and other documentation supporting monthly earned value and contract deliverables.

Technical Acumen:

Conduct schedule risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies to identify and address potential problems

Lead efforts to improve EVMS and scheduling processes

Design and evaluate new tools

Provide technical support for complex scheduling issues

Perform critical path analysis, resource loading, schedule risk assessments, and other schedule analyses to optimize project performance

Create, baseline, and update integrated project schedules, develop Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), and integrate them with EVMS data.

Customer Engagement and Collaboration:

Optimize customer visibility

Collaborate with project managers, control account managers, and stakeholders to ensure accurate schedule development and to communicate schedule status and risks.

Basic Requirements:

Must have 14, or more, years of general experience

May be reduced with the completion of advanced education

Must have 8, or more, years of directly related / specialized experience as an EV scheduler

Must have 5, or more, years or experience working in a management or leadership role

Must have, or obtain, an active DoD Secret Security Clearance

Desired Requirements:

Have experience managing a complex, discrete resource-loaded Integrated Master Schedule consisting of Level of Effort (LOE) and multiple independent project schedules

Have experience providing support to Control Account Managers (CAMs) and Project Managers (PjMs) in the creation of resource loaded proposal development schedules, establishing EV compliant baseline schedules, capturing weekly/ monthly project status updates, developing accurate forecasts for remaining work, and updating accurate Physical % Complete values for EV performance calculations

Have experience leading month-end updates (establishing new baselines, capturing approved baseline changes, status and forecast updates) to support the monthly IPMR cycle

Have experience using SSI Tools (or similar tools) to perform schedule data analysis and create data export bridge files from MS Project to be uploaded into Deltek Cobra

Have experience performing in-depth schedule analysis, to include but not limited to 14-point assessments, DECM data tests and schedule risk assessments

Have experience working in a Project Web Application (PWA) server environment as well as the desktop environment utilizing MS Project

Have experience enforcing strict change control processes and maintaining an IMS in accordance with an Earned Value Management System Description and industry standard EV guidance

Security Clearance Required: Secret

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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