Project Scheduler

The Force Protection Division is seeking an experienced Master Project Scheduler who holds a SECRET clearance to support the Mission Software portfolio by providing integrated planning, scheduling, and execution support across multiple Department of Defense programs. This position serves as the portfolio scheduling lead, partnering directly with the Director of Mission Software and Program Managers to develop, maintain, and analyze Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) that drive successful program execution.

The successful candidate will lead scheduling efforts across software development, systems engineering, integration, test, fielding, sustainment, and prototype development activities while ensuring alignment with customer priorities, contractual milestones, earned value requirements (where applicable), and internal business objectives.

Primary support will focus on the Counter Small UAS Engineering & Integration (E&I) Program, JIGSAW, and the anticipated Rock Island Arsenal Prototype Project, while providing scheduling support across the broader Mission Software portfolio.

This position is expected to become a trusted advisor to program leadership by identifying schedule risks early, evaluating alternatives, and enabling proactive decision-making through objective schedule analysis and executive-level reporting.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) for multiple concurrent DoD programs.
• Author and deliver Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR) or Integrated Program Management Data and Analysis Report (IPMDAR) CDRLs, as applicable to the contract, including preparation of schedule, performance, and narrative deliverables that accurately communicate program execution status, schedule performance, critical path, risks, mitigation strategies, and forecasted milestones to Government customers in accordance with contractual reporting requirements.
• Integrate software development, systems engineering, hardware integration, cybersecurity, logistics, test, training, manufacturing, fielding, and operational activities into executable schedules.
• Build and maintain resource-loaded schedules that accurately reflect program execution and critical path.
• Partner with Program Managers, Technical Directors, Product Owners, Chief Engineers, and Functional Managers to ensure schedules accurately represent current execution status.
• Perform schedule health assessments including critical path analysis, float analysis, schedule quality metrics, and risk identification.
• Develop schedule recovery plans and recommend executable mitigation strategies when milestones are at risk.
• Support proposal development by creating Basis of Schedule (BOS), Integrated Master Plans (IMP), Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), and milestone roadmaps.
• Translate Agile software development activities into integrated program schedules that include Sprint planning, release planning, feature development, system integration, formal test events, and customer demonstrations.
• Coordinate schedules across Government, Leidos, subcontractor, and team mate organizations to ensure cross-functional integration.
• Prepare executive-level schedule briefings, milestone assessments, and portfolio health metrics for internal leadership and Government customers.
• Support Quarterly Program Management Reviews (PMRs), Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBRs), customer status reviews, and executive operational reviews.
• Establish portfolio scheduling standards, templates, and best practices to improve consistency across programs.
• Monitor contractual milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and critical decision points to ensure contractual commitments remain achievable.
• Perform schedule risk analysis and support program risk and opportunity management activities.
• Develop dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that provide leadership visibility into portfolio execution.
• Support strategic planning efforts by evaluating resource demand, execution timelines, and long-range portfolio planning.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with 10 – 13 years of prior relevant experience.
• Extensive experience developing and maintaining Integrated Master Schedules for complex DoD acquisition or engineering programs.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Project.
• Experience supporting software-intensive programs utilizing Agile, Scrum, SAFe, DevSecOps, or hybrid Agile/Waterfall execution models.
• Experience integrating engineering, software, integration, test, logistics, cybersecurity, manufacturing, and fielding activities into executable schedules.
• Demonstrated experience performing critical path analysis, schedule health assessments, and schedule risk analysis.
• Experience supporting executive leadership with schedule reporting, milestone planning, and decision support.
• Strong understanding of Department of Defense program execution processes and lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate planning activities across multiple organizations and technical disciplines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience briefing senior Government and corporate leadership.
• Active DoD Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Counter-UAS, C5ISR, tactical networking, autonomous systems, or mission software programs.
• Experience supporting rapid prototyping, OTA, Middle Tier Acquisition (MTA), or Army modernization initiatives.
• Experience developing schedules for software releases, formal qualification testing (FQT), system integration laboratories (SIL), and fielding activities.
• Experience integrating Agile software metrics with Integrated Master Scheduling.
• Experience supporting Earned Value Management (EVM) environments.
• Experience with Deltek Cobra, Open Plan, Primavera Risk Analysis, Power BI, or advanced schedule analytics tools.
• Experience supporting proposal development, Basis of Estimate (BOE), Basis of Schedule (BOS), and Integrated Master Plan (IMP) development.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP), or equivalent certification.

Experience supporting Army, Air Force, or Joint modernization programs.

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Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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