Scheduling Support

SierTeK proudly serves our clients by providing expertise in the Program Management, Information Technology, and Administrative Support domains. Founded in 2007 as a minority and service-disabled veteran-owned company, we serve as prime- and subcontractor for a multitude of Federal Department of Defense contracts. By focusing on continual improvement, our services remain at the forefront of our industry, and we pride ourselves on delivering our services with the highest degree of integrity.

SierTeK Ltd. is seeking a Scheduling Support to support an opportunity at Dyess AFB, TX.

PLEASE APPLY DIRECTLY ON OUR WEBSITE: www.siertek.com/careers

POSITION OVERVIEW SECTION

Scheduling is a challenging, dynamic, process. Even after the schedule is printed, numerous changes are normally required because of aircraft mechanical problems, medical issues, flight evaluation requirements, expiring event currencies, deployments, and student training continuity. Weather conditions and other factors beyond the control of the scheduler also limit flying opportunities. The scheduler needs to be able to adapt quickly to changing circumstances in a medium-to-high-stress environment.

Essential Job Functions

Coordinate with training officers, Aviation Resource Management offices, Unit Deployment Manager, and Operations Officer (DO) to arrange a schedule to facilitate operations, qualification, upgrade, test, exercise, and continuation training accomplishment to meet required currency and progression standards, in accordance with DO priorities.
Build long and short-range schedules to ensure full coverage of all aircrew, instructor, evaluator, support personnel, and supervisor positions.
Coordinate with senior squadron, group, and/or wing leadership on a daily and weekly basis to facilitate flying operations.
Keep track when crewmembers will be on leave, temporary duty, have scheduled medical appointments, or other scheduling commitments, and deconflict crewmember schedules and work with flight leadership to ensure crews are available to meet assigned sortie taskings.
Track daily flight/ground/academic training requirements and accomplishments to facilitate accurate flight scheduling as directed by the DO and/or shop chiefs.
Update data in Patriot Excalibur (PEX) (or future equivalent systems to PEX) and locally-developed database systems as required.
To the maximum extent possible, schedule aircrews based on experience to mitigate Operational Risk Management.
Report updates to squadron, group, and wing leadership.
Facilitate last-minute schedule changes to ensure full coverage by working with the current mission commander/operations supervisor (or equivalent) and flight responsible for the shift that is not fully manned.
Obtain aircraft and equipment availability data from maintenance and schedule crewmembers for training, exercises, simulators, and operations, as required.
Publish/post scheduling data for unit long/short-range ground/academic, flying, and simulator training event schedules on PEX, or other computer database systems.
Comply with operations group and scheduling chiefs' locally-developed guidance when building the schedule.
Determine flight, ground, and simulator schedule requirements for upgrade, initial qualification, requalification, transition, currency, and continuation training based on syllabus requirements, student progression, weather, and daily equipment/training range availability.
Perform daily updates of scheduling data to compensate for changing conditions and training completion rates.
Coordinate with Wing Scheduling, outside agencies, exercise participants, and higher headquarters (i.e., RED FLAG, GREEN FLAG, Weapons School support) for reporting and to facilitate exercise and special event schedule coordination.
Provide inputs to Wing Scheduling and update daily Supervisor of Flying, Top 3, and schedules.
Correlate sortie length and airspace requirements with syllabus requirements.
Attend meetings, as required, including but not limited to:
Weekly Special Use Airspace Scheduling meeting for schedule coordination and deconfliction.
Weekly Planning/Coordinating Airspace Restrictions meeting for schedule coordination and deconfliction.
Monthly Range Scheduling meetings for schedule coordination and deconfliction.

Qualifications

Minimum Position Requirements

Secret Clearance or previously held Secret Clearance which has expired (not revoked).
Minimum of two (2) years of experience working as a squadron aircrew scheduler.
Minimum of two (2) years of experience working with PEX or similar proprietary scheduling program.

SierTeK is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. Employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, gender identity and sexual orientation.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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