Junior Project Coordinator/Master Scheduler

Job Title: Junior Project Coordinator/Master Scheduler

Location: McLean VA (Hybrid)

Duration: 18 Months

Visa: USC

Basically just looking for a Project Coordinator/Master Scheduler that has done scheduling for ERP related projects. Any ERP experience should be fine

Role Overview

• This role will support the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) across all Keystone workstreams, enabling leadership to drive scope, sequence, dependencies, and risk-informed decision-making.
• The Schedule Analyst will play a critical role in developing, maintaining, and analyzing the Keystone Integrated Master Schedule.
• The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, proactive, highly organized, and able to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple workstreams, technical teams, and executive stakeholders.
• The candidate will ensure schedule integrity, track progress, monitor variances, and support reporting for leadership and governance bodies.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, update, and maintain the Keystone program schedule using MS Project. Integrate workstream-level plans (S2P, CLM, Data, Testing, Cutover, Change Management, PMO) into the enterprise-level IMS.
• Establish and manage dependencies, predecessors/successors, and critical path sequences. Conduct schedule health checks (logic, baselines, floats, constraints, over-allocations).
• Perform critical path, near-critical path, and what-if scenario analyses. Support development of weekly/monthly schedule dashboards, milestone burn-downs, and executive readouts.
• Track actuals vs. planned performance and identify variances or risks. Manage baseline schedules and support change control processes.
• Work closely with Program Leadership, Workstream Leads, and Matrix Team Leads to ensure schedule accuracy. Support risk/issue analysis with schedule impacts and mitigation strategies.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation for key milestones and decision gates. Facilitate schedule review meetings with leads and cross-functional teams.
• Support alignment with functional deployment sequencing, data migration waves, integration timelines, and testing cycles (SIT, UAT, Performance).
• Partner with the PMs and Scrum Masters to ensure schedule is synchronized with program governance and reporting cadence.

Qualifications

• 3 5+ years of experience in scheduling or project controls on large-scale technology, ERP, or transformation programs.
• Hands-on proficiency with Microsoft Project and JIRA.
• Strong understanding of project management principles, WBS structure, critical path method (CPM), and dependency logic.
• Ability to review technical plans, translate them into schedule components, and validate accuracy with SMEs.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Experience supporting ERP implementations (e.g., Infor, SAP, Oracle, Workday, IFS) under a hybrid waterfall and agile SDLC methodology.
• Ability to work independently and support multiple concurrent workstreams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in federal contracting or professional services environments.
• Experience supporting Program Managers, Engineers, Developers, Testers, and PMOs.
• PMI-SP, PMP, or equivalent project management certification a plus.
• Graphic designing experience is a plus