Senior Scheduler

Company Overview:

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.

Cole Engineering Services (CESI), a By Light company, is recognized as a premier provider of modeling and simulation (M&S) training solutions to the Federal Government and industry. Since 2004, CESI has been at the forefront of developing, maintaining, and integrating simulation-based training, serious gaming, technical services, training and other support in live, virtual, constructive, and gaming (LVCG) domains. CESI also designs, builds and runs infrastructure, platforms, applications and processes that enable cyber training for the integrated multi-domain force. Our vision is to become a worldwide full spectrum LVCG and cyber training/analysis developer, integrator and services provider.

Position Overview: This position will Interface with the Government, customers, program personnel, stakeholders, program management, and senior technical personnel to obtain information to develop and maintain an integrated master schedule of all training events.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor schedules, report performance, highlight potential issues, and assist with developing courses of action to mitigate issues.
• Maintain a high-level calendar to track and display upcoming program reviews, milestone decisions, and deliverables.
• Create, revise and update the dashboard overview of all program document status weekly, monthly and annually.
• Assist project teams to coordinate, schedule, and facilitate daily project team meetings, weekly meetings with the Government, and weekly to monthly meetings with customers and other project stakeholders.

Required Experience/Qualifications:

• Extensive experience working in an Agile environment using Jira and Confluence
• Extensive experience developing and maintaining schedules and status reporting using Jira and Confluence to also include linking the schedules to Sprints and automating graphical reports
• Strong MS Office experience
• Ability to generate schedules for training events and integrate them into the master schedule
• Ability to generate courses of action and demonstrate how they mitigate issues
• Ability to develop graphical depictions of schedule status of the training events
• Ability to develop professional briefings suitable for high-level military and Government personnel
• Must have good presentation, communication, and training skills.
• Must have good analytical skills and work well in teams.
• Must have good organizational skills and ability to coordinate multiple activities effectively.
• Must be self-motivated and have the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• CompTIA Security+ certification (or other DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification) or ability to obtain within 90 days of hire date.
• Bachelor s degree in business administration, Accounting, Finance or an Engineering discipline preferred, work related experience can be substituted for degree.
• 8+ years of related job experience in working on government DoD programs.

Preferred Experience:

• PMI Certification (e.g., PMI-SP, CAPM, PMP)
• Experience with the Joint Exercise Life Cycle (JELC)

Special Requirements/Security Clearance:

Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U. S. Citizenship status with ability to maintain a TS/SCI security clearance. Security Clearance requirements will be specified in the Government's Task Order.

Salary Range: Salary Minimum: $93,000, Salary Maximum: $123,000

The annual base salary provided is a guideline for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. When extending an offer, CESI also considers other variables such as (but not limited to) work experience, education, training, skill set, internal peer equity, clearance level, and market conditions. In addition, CESI provides an extensive selection of benefits and offerings to our employees.

Benefits Overview:

CESI recognizes that our strength is our people. We support every employee as an individual to build strong teams across the enterprise. Our benefit package includes:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage
• Wellness Program
• 401(k) Matching
• Disability (Short Term & Long Term)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life Insurance
• Education & Training
• Generous Leave Policy (11 Federal Holidays, PTO, Military Leave, Bereavement and Jury Duty)

Cole Engineering Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, political affiliation, age, marital status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, membership in an employee organization, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local laws.