Master Scheduler

Master Scheduler

Do you crave a career that truly makes an impact in people's lives? Do you thrive on problem-solving and finding solutions? Join a dedicated, tight-knit team that creates an immediate and meaningful impact every day

Leidos QTC Health Services is seeking a Master Scheduler for the Value Management Office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your scheduling experience to help manage our large innovation and transformation project portfolio. In this role, you will be responsible for all aspects of creating and maintaining a resource loaded Integrated Agile Master Schedule and managing project dependencies, milestones, deliverables, and resource conflicts while remaining flexible to accommodate changes and evolving requirements. In-depth master scheduling skills and techniques in agile project environments will be required to facilitate meetings and work one-on-one to ascertain project iterative planning activities, resources, requirements, predecessors, successors, impacts, milestones, etc.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Participating in agile project planning activities and capturing objectives, milestones, and deliverables from high-level project roadmap or release plans
• Developing and maintaining milestone and deliverable schedules across all transformation projects
• Ensuring internal and external dependencies are documented and tracked
• Perform schedule estimating through elicitation of team members and other stakeholders to capture estimations of new work, updated actuals, and remaining work
• Setting and maintaining the baseline schedule and tracking all changes to the baselined schedule on a weekly basis
• Reporting changes to schedules and determining impacts to deliverables
• Perform 'what if' scenarios within the schedule
• Developing and maintaining the schedule risk register and tracking actions to minimize, mitigate, and / or manage schedule risks
• Generating schedule reports based on planned vs actual work
• Implementing portfolio scheduling business rhythms, developing baseline schedules and associated artifacts to meet requirements, and monitoring, analyzing, and reporting performance against them
• Strong open and collaborative communications skills with the ability to mentor and guide the teams to effectively balance the need to be agile and keep our promises
• Manages projects throughout the project and lifecycle including, project definition and baselining, scoping, project planning, resource planning, kick-off, risk management, and execution.
• Takes on a combination of project management tasks in their day-to-day work including brainstorming, planning, scheduling, and designating project tasks, executing the project phases, managing the project budget, communicating with stakeholders and collaborating with department heads.
• Optimizes communication skills and manages the technical complexities and resources throughout the duration of a project
• Identifies and develops solutions for process improvement
• The candidate will construct and maintain MS Project plans daily, distribute weekly, run reports, and generate various scheduling and timeline views

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

About Leidos QTC Health Services

Leidos QTC Health Services collaborates closely with government and non-government customers to address current and future program needs within the health services domain. We specialize in disability-focused medical examinations, independent medical exams and review services, occupational health services, diagnostic testing, and case management solutions. As innovators, we focus on advancing technologies that improve service delivery, with a particular emphasis on enhancing accessibility for examinees in rural communities. With a proven track record of continuous improvement and steady growth, we now handle over 2 million appointments annually.

Compensation and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. As a result, we offer meaningful and engaging careers to support you and your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave, and Retirement.

This role may fall under the Service Contract Act (SCA), a federal law which provides for a U.S. Department of Labor-prescribed minimum prevailing rate of pay and certain benefit levels. Where appropriate, Company-provided benefit plans such as comprehensive leave, holiday, medical, dental, life, accident, disability coverages, retirement plan contributions, and other health and welfare benefits and payments are utilized to meet these obligations.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos QTC Health Services will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.