KIHOMAC

Scheduler

• Provide senior-level scheduling support across multiple AWACS programs and upgrade efforts, ensuring alignment with E-7 modernization objectives
• Develop, manage, and maintain Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), Integrated Master Plans (IMP), Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), and Enterprise Integrated Master Schedules (EIMS)
• Define schedule relationships among acquisition phases, milestones, solicitations, contract awards, design reviews, deliveries, testing events, production phases, and deployment objectives
• Monitor monthly schedule inputs from IPTs, contractors, and government stakeholders; integrate them into the master schedule using Critical Path Method discipline
• Support government planning and coordination activities related to schedule progress, award planning, and readiness to execute program milestones
• Advise proposal evaluation teams on offerors’ approaches to schedule feasibility, mission capability, and proposal risk
• Coordinate schedule activities among multi-discipline teams within the program office, including USAF stakeholders and major defense contractors supporting E-7 simulation, training, and system development
• Prepare and deliver IMS technical products including Gantt charts, network diagrams, critical path analysis, milestone tracking, and schedule risk identification
• Ensure integration of sustainment and acquisition activities into the schedule, linking lifecycle phases where applicable
• Communicate schedule objectives, status, and risks to leadership, customers, and contractor teams; propose corrective actions when schedule variances occur
• Support requirements development, schedule feasibility assessments, and planning documents
• Apply baseline management and schedule risk identification to ensure executable program timelines
• Use Microsoft Project and Open Plan Professional to manage detailed scheduling tasks and produce advanced scheduling outputs
• Perform other duties as assigned

Senior Program Scheduler

Program Manager

• Provide program-level acquisition support to the Program Manager and Integrated Product Team Leads
• Advise program leadership on program health and options to maintain cost, schedule, and performance objectives
• Interpret, coordinate, and execute acquisition project assignments
• Identify and resolve issues affecting acquisition and sustainment efforts
• Compare program direction and plans for alignment across stakeholders
• Monitor program integration plans and interface control between systems
• Plan, evaluate, and implement acquisition strategies across traditional acquisition, Middle Tier of Acquisition, and Urgent Capability pathways
• Provide non-technical acquisition expertise in accordance with DoD and Air Force policies, directives, and instructions
• Identify and resolve policy disconnects and recommend policy updates
• Provide program management inputs to RFPs, including requirements, SOWs, SRDs, CDRLs, and evaluation criteria
• Develop source selection strategies and provide administrative and evaluation support
• Review and track contractor deliverables, schedules, and contractual performance
• Draft contractual correspondence related to program management issues
• Prepare acquisition reports and statutory documentation for milestone decisions and program oversight
• Support senior-level briefings, graphics, schedules, and program status updates
• Maintain recurring program documentation including MARs, APBs, DAES inputs, SARs, and supplemental acquisition reports
• Use DoD-mandated and specialized systems for reporting, documentation, and execution
• Develop and execute program risk management plans and facilitate risk identification, analysis, handling, and monitoring
• Support risk management boards and working groups and document outcomes and action items
• Analyze contractor and subcontractor risk management processes
• Coordinate scheduling and correlate EVM cost performance data with Integrated Master Schedule CDRLs
• Prepare and submit funding documents including purchase requests, MIPRs, and obligation/spend plans
• Support cost and schedule reduction initiatives
• Evaluate funding realism and cost impacts
• Provide acquisition and program management guidance to division chiefs and program/project managers
• Advise PMs on best-practice program management principles
• Support life-cycle logistics considerations and operational supportability planning
• Travel 20%

Journeyman Program Manager

Systems Engineer

• Conduct comprehensive program portfolio reviews and evaluate alternative plans
• Enhance systems engineering processes and manage and sustain technical baselines
• Design and perform system-level tests to verify subsystem and system performance
• Prepare technical documentation, management reports, technical presentations, and corrective-action documentation
• Perform system validations and analyze major engineering system results
• Provide engineering, technical support, and training across acquisition, development, integration, sustainment, deployment, installation, and operations
• Support risk management activities aligned with AF SEAM processes
• Conduct formal trade studies involving performance, cost, lifecycle cost, reliability, maintainability, risk, and schedule
• Provide technical recommendations through reviews, studies, audits, evaluations, analyses, guidance, and documentation
• Analyze proposals for technical feasibility, compatibility, and cost-effectiveness
• Review ICDs, CDDs, CPDs, AoAs, CONOPs, technology development strategies, FCAs, PCAs, and technology standards profiles
• Analyze system concepts and user requirements in functional, allocated, and product baselines
• Support engineering technical processes including configuration control, requirements analysis, architecture design, integration, verification, validation, and decision analysis
• Manage risk, configuration, technical data, and interfaces
• Support technical reviews and develop Systems Engineering Plans and Risk Management Plans
• Prepare and review technical documentation, requirements, and engineering analyses for E-3/E-7 AWACS platforms
• Support modeling and simulation, capability evaluations, performance analyses, and subsystem studies
• Use Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and Agile collaboration tools to manage engineering data and workflow
• Collaborate with government personnel, military members, defense contractors, and E-7 engineering teams
• Communicate technical concepts in briefings, presentations, and stakeholder discussions
• Balance documentation, requirements analysis, and engineering support across geographically distributed teams
• Travel 20%
• Perform other duties as assigned

Senior Program Scheduler

Journeyman Program Manager

Senior Systems Engineer