Scheduling Analyst

Location: Chantilly, VA

The Scheduling Analyst is responsible for interfacing professionally and efficiently with external clients and internal technical and administrative staff at varied levels of experience and authority. The Scheduling Analyst provides detailed and accurate schedule reports and data sets with short turnaround times and is familiar with work breakdown structures. The Scheduler develops and manages schedules, aggregates schedules from other IT Service Ecosystem Service Provider (SP) contracts, and prepares and explains performance metrics in conjunction with Project Managers. They meet with project teams, change managers, and service integrators, as required, in the development of baseline schedules, updates, and recovery schedules. The Scheduler assists the project team in tracking and updating schedules from inception to completion of the project.

Position Responsibilities:

• Conduct critical path analysis, identify dependencies and constraints to determine the effect of changes to schedule, and recommend work-around
• Routinely monitors and provides awareness of schedule milestones and deliverables for all project phases
• Creates, monitors, and analyzes project schedules per Government standards of best practice
• Organizes implements and maintains a scheduling management system supporting identified projects and their plans
• Assists in setting up tasks and sub-tasks to ensure satisfactory realization of project contract requirements as scheduled
• Interacts with customers and project staff to schedule work and coordinate assignments
• Maintains and assists with the project schedule
• Interacts with the project team and task managers to define the scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information, and identification of variances from the original plan
• Evaluates project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas
• Develops and updates weekly short-interval schedules working with project managers, engineers, and other Government stakeholders
• Supports Service Providers in maintaining timely and effective Change Management processes, procedures, and systems
• Analyzes to determine alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules
• Assists Service Provider teams in developing and maintaining periodic status reports to keep management informed on program progress
• Identifies and communicates significant schedule risks to staff and management team
• Documents identified project risks, mitigations, and outcomes based on input from teams

Required Qualifications:

• An Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with Project Scheduling using Microsoft Project or a similar Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) scheduling tool
• Ability to facilitate meetings with Program and Government personnel
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to ensure efficient and accurate schedule development and updates.
• Detail-oriented
• Extensive knowledge of MS Product Suite (MS Project, Word, Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint)

Desired Qualifications:

• ITIL v3 Foundations or ITIL 2011
• Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science Degree
• Ability to prepare and conduct briefings to diverse audiences
• Ability to create project documentation

Stillwater is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected class. If you need assistance with the application process due to a disability, please contact us at

571-525-2482

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