Director, Planning and Scheduling

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI, providing cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. We enable AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development, bolstering technical capabilities, and supporting strategic business outcomes such as cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility. Our culture thrives on relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member drives excellence and urgency.

About the Role

We're seeking a Director of Planning and Scheduling to lead the scheduling function for our data center construction delivery. You will own the development, integration, and maintenance of a master program schedule consolidating inputs from multiple general contractors, trade contractors, and equipment suppliers across the full construction lifecycle. This role serves as the central authority on schedule health, critical path analysis, and risk exposure for site development, shell and core, MEP fit-out, and commissioning scopes. You will partner closely with program leadership, project controls, construction management, and contractor teams to ensure on-time turnover of data halls and supporting infrastructure. Extensive travel (up to 75%) to contractor offices and job sites is required to validate progress and drive alignment.

Responsibilities

• Schedule Integration
  • Develop and maintain an integrated master program schedule (IMS) consolidating individual contractor schedules—general contractors, MEP trade contractors, equipment vendors, and commissioning agents—into a single source of truth.
  • Establish and enforce schedule architecture standards, coding structures, and level-of-detail requirements across all contractors to enable consistent roll-up and integration.
  • Identify and manage interfaces, dependencies, and hand-offs across the construction sequence (e.g., site/civil to structural, structural to shell, shell to MEP rough-in, MEP to commissioning and IT load turnover).
  • Administer LoadSpring-hosted Primavera P6 environments to ensure secure, centralized access for all contractor schedulers contributing to the integrated master schedule.
• Analysis & Reporting
  • Perform critical path method (CPM) analysis to identify drivers of program duration, float erosion, and schedule risk.
  • Conduct schedule quality reviews (e.g., DCMA 14-point checks or equivalent) on contractor submittals and drive corrective action.
  • Leverage SmartPM analytics to automate schedule health diagnostics, benchmark contractor performance, and detect trends in slippage, compression, and logic changes across submittals.
  • Produce regular schedule performance reporting (look-aheads, trend/variance analysis, earned schedule metrics) for program leadership and executive stakeholders.
  • Lead schedule risk analysis, including Monte Carlo simulation where applicable, to quantify confidence levels on key milestones (building enclosure, MEP rough-in complete, commissioning start, data hall turnover).
• Contractor Management
  • Establish schedule submission requirements, update cadences, and reporting standards within contracts and scope documents.
  • Review and validate contractor-submitted schedules for logic, resource loading, and alignment to contractual milestones.
  • Facilitate schedule integration workshops and interface meetings with multiple general contractors and trade partners to resolve conflicts and align sequencing.
  • Hold contractors accountable to committed dates and support recovery planning when schedules slip.
  • Conduct regular on-site visits to contractor offices and active construction sites to validate reported progress against field conditions.
• Program Support & Governance
  • Partner with project controls, cost, and construction teams to align schedule with budget and resource plans.
  • Advise program leadership on schedule risks, mitigation strategies, and recovery options.

Pay

Salary Range: $160,000—$200,000 USD. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs.

Benefits

Nscale offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.