Plan Scheduler- Senior Business Analyst

Strategic Management Solutions, LLC (SMSI) provides expert management consulting, program and project management, and technical consulting services to government and private-sector clients. SMSI has built a strong reputation for client-focused performance, delivering innovative solutions and measurable results that help clients achieve their goals, meet critical commitments, and successfully reach key milestones.

Job Summary

SMSI is seeking a Plan Scheduler- Senior Business Analyst to support our client at the Savannah River Nuclear Site (SRNS) in Aiken, SC. This position will be responsible for developing, analyzing, and maintaining complex, integrated project schedules while supporting project controls, cost and schedule performance, and resource planning.

Responsibilities

• Organize, develop, analyze, and maintain project controls, financial analysis, and estimating applications to monitor project objectives and support effective project execution.
• Prepare project status reports and management reports that identify variances in work execution strategies, assess performance, and recommend corrective actions and solutions.
• Provide management with the tools and information necessary to maintain effective cost and schedule control throughout the life cycle of complex projects and work activities.
• Perform moderately complex planning and scheduling activities with limited supervision, including the development, analysis, implementation, and maintenance of integrated, logic-driven, resource-loaded schedules.
• Develop and maintain short-, mid-, and long-range project schedules, ensuring alignment with baseline milestones, project objectives, and award fee requirements.
• Analyze schedule performance, progress, and trends to identify potential delays, constraints, or performance issues and recommend corrective actions.
• Review existing planning technologies, processes, and methodologies and recommend improvements or alternatives to maximize schedule effectiveness and resource utilization.
• Develop project milestone schedules that establish optimal working conditions and promote the effective utilization of project resources.
• Establish and coordinate project milestones for specific scheduled activities and obtain management concurrence as needed.
• Evaluate schedule variances against established baselines and provide management with recommendations for corrective action.
• Provide guidance, direction, and oversight to personnel involved in planning and scheduling activities, including monitoring critical and essential planning functions.
• Maintain regular communication and coordination with all levels of management to ensure alignment on project schedules, priorities, and execution strategies.
• Lead schedule review meetings and serve as the primary scheduling representative during divisional, departmental, or project Plan of the Day (POD) meetings.
• Establish and communicate scheduling guidelines, procedures, and expectations to ensure consistent and effective planning and scheduling practices.
• May serve in a lead planning and scheduling capacity for a large-scale project, facility, department, or program.
• Individual will be required to perform walkdowns. Support Savannah River Tritium Enterprise (SRTE) Projects schedule, trending, and cost.

Required Skills/ Abilities

• Demonstrated strong personal computer skills and proficiency in utilizing automated accounting, budgeting, cost management, and estimating systems to perform required duties.
• Working knowledge of project management principles and tactical-level cost and schedule control, including operations, maintenance, project startup, and construction activities.
• Estimating specialty: Demonstrated experience in conceptual estimating, coordinating with technical personnel, interfacing with engineering teams, and understanding field construction methods, labor requirements, and equipment needs.
• Ability to apply established concepts, principles, and methodologies to assess and quantify the cost impacts of varying work conditions.
• Experience with PeopleSoft, Primavera P6 (P6), OAS, and COBRA is required.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must be able to provide a valid REAL ID for onboarding purposes.
• Area Security Access: Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy (DOE) "Q" security clearance. An active DOE security clearance is not required at the time of hire.

Desired Skills

• Candidates who have possessed an active DOE clearance (L or Q) within the past two (2) years are preferred.
• SRNS experience preferred.

Education

• A master’s degree in business, construction management, a technical or engineering discipline, or a related field, along with at least 2 years of relevant practical experience; OR
• A bachelor’s degree in business, construction management, a technical or engineering discipline, or a related field, along with at least 5 years of relevant practical experience; OR
• An associate’s degree along with at least 8 years of relevant practical experience; OR
• A high school diploma along with at least 12 years of relevant practical experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Strategic Management Solutions, LLC (SMSI) is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.