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Scheduler/Logistician

Akima

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Herndon, VA
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Job Description

Akima is seeking a Scheduler/Logistician to support transition scheduling, logistics coordination, and IT equipment tracking for a mission-critical enterprise IT program. This position builds and maintains the resource-loaded Integrated Master Schedule, sequences transition activities, tracks dependencies, and supports onboarding readiness.

The Scheduler/Logistician also tracks IT equipment movement across locations, including devices received, tested, configured, boxed, shipped, repaired, replaced, or returned. This role coordinates with leadership, functional leads, lab personnel, vendors, shippers, and field locations to maintain accurate schedule, logistics, and supply chain visibility.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the resource-loaded Integrated Master Schedule.
  • Track transition milestones, dependencies, risks, and staffing conflicts.
  • Coordinate schedule inputs from Program, Operations, and functional leads.
  • Track IT equipment from receipt through testing, configuration, shipping, repair, replacement, and redeployment.
  • Coordinate with lab personnel, vendors, shippers, technical teams, and field locations.
  • Maintain trackers, shipping logs, vendor updates, and leadership reports.
  • Identify schedule delays, equipment shortages, supply chain risks, and operational impacts.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Project Management, IT, or related field.
  • 2-4 years of experience in scheduling, logistics, supply chain tracking, project coordination, inventory coordination, or program operations.
  • Four additional years of relevant experience may substitute for the bachelor's degree.
  • Experience maintaining schedules, trackers, shipment logs, or milestone plans.
  • Strong organization, communication, and coordination skills.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, with working knowledge of Microsoft Project for schedule development, tracking, and reporting.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain DHS suitability and required clearances.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience supporting federal IT, logistics, transition, field services, or operations programs.
  • Familiarity with Integrated Master Schedules, logistics reporting, inventory tracking, and IT equipment lifecycle activities.
  • Experience coordinating with across diverse teams.
  • Prior DHS, TSA, airport operations, or mission-focused federal experience.

Job ID

2026-23809
Work Type

Remote
Pay Range

80,000 - 110,000
Benefits

Regular - The company offers a comprehensive benefits program, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) and a range of other voluntary benefits. Paid Time Off (PTO) is offered to regular full-time and part-time employees.
Company Description



Work Where it Matters

Akima Global Technology (AGT), an Akima company, is not just another federal IT contractor. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), our mission and purpose extend beyond our exciting federal projects as we support our shareholder communities in Alaska.

At AGT, the work you do every day makes a difference in the lives of our 15,000 Iñupiat shareholders, a group of Alaska natives from one of the most remote and harshest environments in the United States.

For our shareholders, AGT provides support and employment opportunities and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years.

For our government customers, AGT delivers new technologies and partners with leading edge commercial enterprises to deliver unique and innovative IT solutions.

As an AGT employee, you will be surrounded by a challenging, yet supportive work environment that is committed to innovation and diversity, two of our most important values. You will also have access to our comprehensive benefits and competitive pay in addition to growth opportunities and excellent retirement options.
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Be part of something bigger. With Akima, you’ll enjoy the agility and autonomy of working for a small business, while also being supported by an enterprise over 10,000 employees strong. Career growth and opportunity? Look no further.

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About Us
Akima is a global enterprise with 10,000 employees, delivering solutions to the federal government in the core areas of information technology; facilities & ground logistics; aerospace solutions; protective services; systems engineering; mission support; furniture, fixtures & equipment (FF&E); and construction. As a subsidiary of NANA, an Alaska Native Corporation owned by more than 15,000 Iñupiat shareholders, Akima’s core mission is to enable superior outcomes for our customers’ missions while simultaneously creating a long-lived asset for NANA consistent with our Iñupiat values. In 2024, Akima ranked #29 on Washington Technology’s Top 100 list of government contractors.
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