The project scheduler will work as an integral member of the program management team creating, updating, and maintaining the integrated program schedule using Microsoft Project.
Works with project managers to identify and manage project schedule risks, issues, and resource constraints.
Monitors and reports progress variances to baseline.
Responsibilities:
Assists in the development and maintenance of detailed schedules to support their assigned projects.
Ensure issues are escalated to the proper decision-making authority in a timely manner so that decisions can be made that minimize impact to critical path.
Ensure processes and procedures are compliant with Program and Project Management Standard.
Lead effort for establishing the baseline schedule, establishes schedule best practices and management, risk identification, metrics identification and reporting processes.
Perform schedule analysis to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules.
Resource load and update schedule status and assess schedule risk using the schedule and schedule related metrics.
Work with Project Managers to identify schedule dependencies and ensure those are clearly linked across the program.
Determine critical path activities and forecasted completion dates.
Facilitate updates and reporting process for assigned schedules ensuring schedule variances are reported timely and impact is mitigated.
Using the Microsoft Project Server application, creates and manages the PMO Portfolio integrated master schedule, which is comprised of multiple individual project schedules for projects of various sizes.
Ensures critical path activities are identified, maintained, and accurate.
Collaborates with PMO project managers to update the schedule on a regular basis.
Produces reports from the schedule for review with PMO leadership.
Qualifications:
5 plus years of direct work-related experience, Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills Program / Project Management certification preferred (i.e. PMI, PMP, PgMP) or equivalent knowledge.
Self-motivated with excellent teamwork and influencing skills, ability to manage ambiguity, think independently, prioritize, make decisions/recommendations, and perform objective analyses.
In-depth knowledge of project-management schedule management software applications (i.e., MS Project, MS Project Server/Online, MS Project Professional).
Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence and Tableau preferred.
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