Integrated Master Scheduler

Job Title : Integrated Master Scheduler
Location : Sterling Heights, MI
Contract : 12 Month Contract to begin with
Citizenship Requirement: US Citizen or Perm Residents
Pay - $55.00/hr - $63.00/hr on W2

Job description:
• Prepares, develops and coordinates the integrated master plan and integrated master schedule to meet all program objectives.
• Ensures major projects and program schedules and plans are horizontally and vertically integrated across company functional groups including but not limited to finance, engineering, material, manufacturing, and quality.
• Monitors program schedule performance, tracks plans and schedules, performs risk analysis, identifies and resolves critical path and network logic conflicts.
• Utilizes Gantt, PERT, milestone charts, earned value management and other project management techniques to gauge progress and identify performance variances to facilitate focus and intervention on critical areas. Updates and prepares reports for customers.

Skills Required
• Developing compliant program schedules constructed with the necessary level of detail and logic such that the schedule is a valuable program management tool.
• Horizontal and vertical integration of program plans and schedules across company functional groups including finance, engineering, procurement, operations, manufacturing, and quality.
• Preparing regular Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) updates and reports for program management, customers, and/or business management personnel.
• Monitoring progress against scheduled activities and identifying performance variances to facilitate focus on critical areas as well as developing and implementing work-around or recovery plans.
• Examining and analyzing schedules including critical & driving paths and risk & opportunity in compliance with Earned Value Management, customer, and industry requirements.
• Timely preparation and submission of contract deliverables related to the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and Integrated Master Plan (IMP).
• Ensuring that all schedules and contract deliverables are fully compliant with internal policies, customer, and industry requirements.

Experience Required
• Experience in building compliant Integrated Master Schedules using WBS, RAM and SOW
• Experience with Earned Value Management Experience with scheduling software (i.e. - Open Plan and Microsoft Project)
• Experience in assembling and presenting data and multi-faceted matters in a meaningful way to stakeholders outside of the Master Planning & Scheduling team
• Experience in analyzing Critical Paths Experience with Schedule Risk Assessments

Education Required
Bachelor's degree in engineering or business administration or related field with 7+ years of planning/scheduling experience or equivalent education/experience

Education Preferred
Integrated Master Scheduler with 7-10 years with experience in reading government contracts and building Integrated Master Schedules in compliance with Earned Value Methodologies