Project Scheduler

Date Posted:

2026-04-22

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Harlow, Essex

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

At RTX, the world largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. 

Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

Location: Hybrid, but you must be willing to work on site regularly each week and you may be required at times to travel to our other Raytheon UK offices, customer facilities or events.

We are looking for a Project Scheduler to provide professional project scheduling and controls support as part of the Raytheon UK Enterprise Performance Group (EPG), deployed to your allocated programme team(s).

This includes the generation, analysis and reporting of key schedule and earned value management metrics to support the programme and to facilitate key decision making. Earned Value expertise will be central to the management of the TCIF contract.

We are looking for our team to advocate for and deliver robust project controls, metrics and business intelligence reporting by utilising our various tools to give clear and objective visibility of programme health. We want to build a team passionate about ensuring on time delivery, providing solutions to schedule optimisation challenges and who has a commitment to playing their role in programme delivery and supporting business intelligence and KPI reporting.

What You Will Do *

Develop Programme Integrated Master Schedules (IMS’) ensuring all contractual deliverables have planned activities and that all events and milestones are logically linked and fully resourced with labour hours, material costs, and subcontract payments.

Manage and update project schedules against a weekly/monthly cycle and provide accurate reporting metrics.

Learn how to provide detailed analysis of a schedule such as deriving critical paths and performing schedule risk analysis.

Assist with managing contract changes and ensure they are incorporated into schedule baselines accurately ensuring realistic configuration controlled baseline at all times.

Learn how to generate, analyse and report Earned Value Management data.

Support the programmes to develop Programme Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Organisational Breakdown Structures (OBS) and Control Account Structures to enable effective work package management and reporting.

Support Bid and Proposal activities ranging from developing programme schedules to supporting estimating and pricing teams.

Develop a consistent application of approved best practice processes and tools across Raytheon UK with the ability to influence decision making and recommend courses of action to recover the schedule where necessary.

Become a member of the Association of Project Managers (APM).

Maintain a focused balance between the use of company standard tools and the innovative development of reporting through customised reports in Power BI

What You Will Learn

An opportunity to develop your Project Controls Career with an opportunity to learn from our best talent and SMEs across scheduling, controls, EVM & risk management.

You will have opportunities to engage with Professional Development events internally and externally and we would be keen to support your interest in ongoing skills and knowledge development through internal and external training.

You will have access to our extensive Professional Development Library full of relevant professional material so that you can take ownership of your ongoing development

We would encourage you to partake in our Professional Certification Scheme to give a structured approach to your career pathway here at Raytheon UK.

Qualifications You Must Have *

Working experience of Planning tools (such as Ms Project)

Proactive attitude.

Analytical logical thinker with attention to detail.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Organised, disciplined, methodical, hardworking and a team player.

Ability to Multi-task.

A keen interest in technology.

Able to use the MS Word, Excel and Office applications and the ability to learn new applications.

Eligible to work in the UK and be able to successfully achieve MoD security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer

Experience of working with Microsoft Office Products.

Experience of working in a projects (IPT) or engineering based environment.

Experience of working in an office environment.

Experience with working with MS Project or other planning tools.

Power BI report generation and maintenance

Learn More & Apply Now

Please ensure the role type defined below is appropriate for your needs before applying to this role. This position is classified as:

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.]

Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.

Remote: Employees who are working in Remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home). If you live within a reasonable commute of an RTX site with other colleagues you interact with, your manager will discuss whether there is a degree of onsite presence associated with this role.

Candidates will learn more about role type and current site status throughout the recruiting process. For onsite and hybrid roles, commuting to and from the assigned site is the employee’s personal responsibility.

Requires theoretical to advanced knowledge of work area typically obtained through University Degree combined with experience. Practical knowledge of RTX projects, programs
or systems with the ability to make enhancements and leverage in daily work.

Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience.

Engineering/Other Technical Positions:Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics(STEM) and a minimum of 2 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.  

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