25 days ago

Job Description

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EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

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  • 10+ years of DoD program scheduling experience. rn
  • Expertise in MS Project rn
  • Strong proficiency in schedule analysis, critical path analysis, and resource loaded schedules. rn
  • Ability to lead teams, influence without authority, and manage multiple schedulers in a matrixed environment. rn
  • Excellent communication and coordination skills across engineering, PMO, subcontractors, and government customers. rn

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WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

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  • Office and manufacturing shop-floor environment with routine interaction across engineering, supply chain, operations, and quality teams. rn
  • May be exposed to noise, vibration, dust, and chemicals (within OSHA limits). rn
  • Ability to sit or stand for extended periods (8-9 hours typical). rn
  • Ability to lift up to 40 lbs per TDI safety guidelines. rn
  • Ability to work at a computer workstation for long durations. rn
  • Occasional travel (0-10%) to suppliers or corporate sites. rn

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LOCATIONS:

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Crane, IN

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Huntsville, AL

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Remote

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  • Holidays
  • Education Reimbursement

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GENERAL JOB SUMMARY:

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The Master Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing the integrated master schedule (IMS) to ensure on-time delivery of MSI's programs, prototypes, and production units. This role coordinates cross-functionally with Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Test to convert customer demand and program requirements into an accurate, achievable, and fully resource-loaded schedule.

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This position establishes schedule governance, collects real-time status from shop-floor teams, ensures constraints are visible, resolves conflicts, and drives accountability to execution milestones. The Master Scheduler will own MS Project schedule revision control, lead weekly schedule reviews, support MRP/ERP alignment (Costpoint), and serve as the central point for communicating schedule risk and recovery actions to leadership.

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ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

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  • Own and maintain the Program Master Schedule, ensuring traceability between Summary, Intermediate, and Detailed schedules rn
  • Lead schedule planning, baseline initialization, baseline change control, and support IBR/SRA program reviews rn
  • Perform schedule health assessments (DCMA 14 point compliance or equivalent), and prepare Earned Value lite scheduling inputs. rn
  • Partner with Product Teams, CAMs, Engineering Leads, and Mission Leads to ensure accurate resource loading, PMT assignment, and work-package planning. rn
  • Interface with MACH TB 2.0 leadership, including Program Director, Deputy Program Director, and Chief Engineer rn

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Other Job Functions:

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  • Lead and mentor multiple schedulers supporting MACH?TB 2.0, ensuring consistent scheduling standards across all mission threads. rn
  • Establish scheduling processes, review work products of other schedulers, and provide corrective guidance. rn
  • Coordinate across MACH?TB partners, subcontractors, and functional groups to ensure schedule alignment. rn
  • Support cross?program synchronization efforts, such as MACH?TB International Team and Financial Planning Tag?ups rn

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Numbers & Facts

LocationIN
IndustryAerospace and Defense
Company Size1,500 to 1,999 employees
Websitehttp://www.kratosdefense.com/

About Company

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS) is a specialized Technology Company providing mission critical products, solutions and services for United States National Security. Kratos' core capabilities are sophisticated engineering, manufacturing and system integration offerings for National Security platforms and programs. Kratos' areas of expertise include Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Combat and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) systems, satellite communications, electronic warfare, unmanned systems, hypersonic systems, directed and high power energy systems, electromagnetic railgun, missile defense, cyber warfare, cybersecurity, information assurance, and critical infrastructure security. Kratos has primarily an engineering and technically oriented work force of approximately 3,100. Substantially all of Kratos' work is performed on a military base, in a secure facility or at a critical infrastructure location.

Skills

  • Analysis Skillsunmatched
  • Baseline Scheduleunmatched
  • Calendar Managementunmatched
  • Change Controlunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Computer Workstationsunmatched
  • Cross-Functionalunmatched
  • Customer Conversionunmatched
  • Deltek Costpointunmatched
  • Dental Insuranceunmatched
  • ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
  • Financial Planningunmatched
  • Government Contractsunmatched
  • IP Multimedia System (IMS)unmatched
  • Leadershipunmatched
  • Lift/Move 40 Poundsunmatched
  • Loading/Unloadingunmatched
  • Machiningunmatched
  • Manufacturingunmatched
  • Mentoringunmatched
  • Microsoft Projectunmatched
  • OSHAunmatched
  • Organizational Skillsunmatched
  • Process Developmentunmatched
  • Product Reviewsunmatched
  • Project Scheduleunmatched
  • Prototyping Programming Languagesunmatched
  • Registered Nurse (RN)unmatched
  • Riskunmatched
  • Schedule Developmentunmatched
  • Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM)unmatched
  • Stock Purchase Plansunmatched
  • Supply Chainunmatched
  • Supply Chain Operationsunmatched
  • Team Lead/Managerunmatched
  • Testingunmatched
  • Time Managementunmatched
  • Traceabilityunmatched
  • United States Department of Defense (DoD)unmatched
  • Vision Planunmatched

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