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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has turned bold ideas into world-changing impact advancing science and technology to strengthen U.S. security and promote global stability.
Our mission spans four critical national security areas nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow. With a culture built on innovation and operational excellence, LLNL is a place where your expertise can make a real impact.
Job Description
We have an opening for a P6 Scheduler/Data Analyst to support the Strategic Deterrence (SD) Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) initiative within nuclear and high hazard facilities. With limited general direction, you will support scheduling and schedule analytics functions that reflect management priorities, including integrating multiple projects with competing resource requirements. You will support moderate-sized program scheduling assignments, monitor progress toward milestones and key events, and develop reports and metrics to enable proactive decision-making. This position supports the SD Integrated Master Scheduling Program within the Strategic Deterrence Directorate.
This position may offer a hybrid schedule, which includes the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week, after a probationary period. The specifics of the hybrid schedule, including the exact number of days required in the office and virtual work options, may vary based on the needs of the team and the organization.
This position will be filled at either level based on knowledge and related experience as assessed by the hiring team. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if hired at the higher level.
In this role you will
- Develop, update, and maintain project and integrated schedules in Oracle Primavera P6, including WBS/activity setup, logic, durations, constraints, baselines, and progress updates.
- Build and maintain program and project schedules that include appropriate lead times, realistic durations, major milestones, and deliverables from internal customers and vendors.
- Coordinate with Integrated Project Teams to collect inputs and validate scope, sequencing, durations, resource impacts (as applicable), and milestone commitments.
- Perform schedule analytics, including critical path, float, variance, slippage trends, milestone health, and key driver analysis.
- Develop, run, and maintain metrics and alerts that identify activity slippage and emerging risks, enabling proactive decisions before milestone impacts occur.
- Conduct “what-if” scenario analysis to evaluate sequencing and duration changes, quantify impacts, and support recovery planning.
- Support re-planning and re-baselining when major schedule changes occur, including pre-rebaseline analysis and recommendations.
- Develop and maintain scheduling products such as templates, fragnets, schedule baselines, schedule updates, schedule analysis, and standard and ad hoc IMS reports.
- Integrate existing project schedules to produce roll-up summaries, dashboards, and reporting for program and project managers and leadership.
- Reconcile and validate data across inputs (project schedules, milestones, vendor deliverables), identify data quality issues, and drive closure with owners.
- Create and maintain repeatable data extracts, reporting templates, and improve reporting efficiency by reducing manual rework through standardization and automation where feasible.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Additional Responsibilities at the TSS.4 Level
- Design, build, publish, and maintain dashboards that communicate schedule health, milestone performance, critical path drivers, forecast trends, and key risks to multiple stakeholder levels.
- Lead the implementation of scheduling functions to reflect management priorities.
- Guide other schedulers to ensure a consistent application of the IMS Program across laboratory directorates.
- Translate stakeholder questions into structured analyses, document assumptions and methodology, and communicate clear findings and actionable insights.
- Serve as the IMS Point of Contact including supervisory responsibilities and other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.
- Bachelor degree in Project Management, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or an equivalent combination of education and related technical experience.
- Advanced interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills necessary to effectively collaborate in a team environment and present and explain technical or operational information to regulators, reviewers, and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage multiple competing priorities under pressure, and apply strong organizational skills to accomplish work.
- Advanced experience using Primavera P6 for scheduling and schedule analysis.
- Advanced experience with Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling and planning and performing Schedule Risk Assessments (SRAs).
- Experience working with project leads and major stakeholders on a wide range of projects that require input from multiple organizations.
- Experience developing schedules that integrate within a program and producing integrated and roll-up views.
- Experience analyzing and managing schedules and effectively communicating schedule status, drivers, and impacts to all levels of the project team and stakeholders.
- Experience with implementing environmental regulations and permitting requirements for construction-related projects.
Additional Qualifications at the TSS.4 Level
- Expertise using Primavera P6 for scheduling and schedule analysis.
- Highly advanced experience leading, developing, and managing enterprise and/or integrated schedules for large, highly complex, inter-related work.
- Expertise developing and using ETL (extract, transform, load) processes and mapping data between multiple databases and source systems to support integrated dashboards, metrics, and reporting.
- Expert level experience with Primavera P6 administration including security profiles.
- Highly advanced experience with EVMS and integration with costing databases.
- Working knowledge of DOE nuclear safety basis implementation, including DSA/TSR compliance, surveillances, and configuration control.
- Working knowledge of high-hazard work planning and control.
- Experience in the development and implementation of T-Week Maintenance Schedule.
Qualifications We Desire
- Nuclear Facility Maintenance and/or Operations experience.
- Experience with Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
- Working knowledge of querying data from backend sources using commonly used methods (for example SQL, Power Query, APIs, or other database/reporting query interfaces) to research, analyze, and extract data for dashboards and business reports.
- Demonstrated experience building clear, decision-oriented analytics and reporting (dashboards, metrics, scorecards, or executive summaries).
- Solid Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, data validation, charting) and comfort working with large datasets.
- Experience defining metrics/KPIs, performing variance and trend analysis, and developing alerts for early risk identification.
- Attention to data quality, consistency, and version control across recurring reports and updates.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe (including creating, analyzing, and producing schedule reports).
Pay Range
$154,950 - $235,692 Annually
$154,950 - $196,476 Annually for the TSS.3 level
$185,850 - $235,692 Annually for the TSS.4 level
This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.
Additional Information
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Position Information
This is a Career Indefinite position, open to Lab employees and external candidates.
Why Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory?
- Included in 2026 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor!
- Flexible Benefits Package
- 401(k)
- Relocation Assistance
- Education Reimbursement Program
- Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)
- Our values - visit https://www.llnl.gov/inclusion/our-values
Security Clearance
This position requires a Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance. If you are selected, we will initiate a Federal background investigation to determine if you meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or matter. Also, all L or Q cleared employees are subject to random drug testing. Q-level clearance requires U.S. citizenship.
Pre-Employment Drug Test
External applicant(s) selected for this position must pass a post-offer, pre-employment drug test. This includes testing for use of marijuana as Federal Law applies to us as a Federal Contractor.
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