Job Order #6338 Detail

Location	Austin, TX	Type	Contract to Hire
Position Title	Project Scheduler	Duration	4 mo
Job Description Join this team as a Project Scheduler using MS Project to work as an integral part of the project management team creating, maintaining, and monitoring all project schedules. * Specifically, the candidate will be responsible for establishing creating the schedule with the project manager, maintaining the schedule baseline, collecting tasks updates, reporting schedule status and variances, resource load reporting and assessing schedule risk using the schedule and schedule-related metrics in a MS Project Server environment. * The candidate must be a self-starter who can work with a development team to gather schedule requirements, dependencies and activities and have experience in creating, maintaining and providing bi-weekly and monthly reports (in Excel or MS Project). * In addition to performing the scheduling function, the candidate will support the team's implementation of earned value methodologies, and performance metrics to monitor department and project status. * The position requires interaction with contracts personnel, senior technical personnel, accounts receivable, finance and other functional or support organizations. * Contract-to-hire opportunity!*
Required Skills * Bachelors degree in related discipline and 2 years of experience in project management or two-year degree with 5 years of experience in project management and scheduling; specifically, developing and managing resource-loaded project schedules with networked activities. * The candidate must have a thorough knowledge of MS Project and MS Excel and be able to work independently to meet reporting deadlines. * Effective written and oral communication skills are required to work well with all levels of staff and managers. * Prior experience with government contracting, knowledge of critical path methodology (CPM), risk management concepts and familiarity with performance-based contracting is preferred.