Scheduling Specialist

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Job Summary:  

The Scheduling Specialist develops master program schedules for highly complex programs and proposals. This position acts as a key member of the Program planning team.  Provides strong guidance to ensure that the schedules are developed in a logical and executable manner. This position typically works under limited direct supervision and direction from global planning organization.  Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reviews contractual requirements (including inter company works orders), to ensure that all essential labor and non-labor elements are captured in the development of the schedule. (Including material, travel and subcontractor costs)
• Interfaces directly with Program Managers, functional managers and other support personnel to develop detailed baseline plans, schedules, and interrelationships for all program tasks. 
• Utilizes various planning tools for schedule development including Gantt and Critical Path Method (CPM) network schedule (typically using Primavera P6).
• Performs maintenance and analyses of schedule baselines, including change control, status and forecasts, critical path analyses and “what if” scenarios.  Identifies problems and potential problems.  Helps to develop recovery plans.
• Supports the proposal process, including review of Requests for Proposals, schedule development and resource planning. Additionally, support may also entail narrative writing of the schedule process for the volume submittal.
• Performs formal schedule risk analyses utilizing software running Monte Carlo type analysis.  Includes the understanding of 3-point estimates, loading and analyses of data, generation and explanation of reports to management.
• Prepares and executes the load of the data files being synchronized between the schedule and SAP.
• Develops and presents schedule review documents/data to management and customers (external and internal to Cubic) as required.
• Ensures that generally accepted industry standard scheduling practices are employed in the schedule development process and adheres to Cubic’s program management and scheduling policies and procedures.
• Works directly with PMs, CAMs and PFOs to develop and maintain direct budgets/ETCs at the activity level.
• Assists with the development of the WBS Structure used within the schedule and SAP.
• Displays exceptional understanding of earned value methods and the proper use of the various status techniques.
• Establishes strong working relationships between Engineering and Operations in order to develop a fully linked master schedule which includes links to ERAs, engineering drawings, BOM, long lead material and the production cycle.
• Provide training, direction and guidance to other schedulers and project team members as required.
• Ensures resource demand plans are maintained and realistically reflect the work load of the business unit
• Ensure all work the business unit is accepting is correctly planned
• Works with local HR/Management team to regularly update resource dictionaries and functional group mapping
• Working with the management team, ensure compliance to the inter works policy and related processes and procedures (including maintain a register of all inter company works order) with status.

Worker Type:Employee