Lead Scheduler, Preconstruction

About the role

The Lead Scheduler, Preconstruction position at STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) supports the planning and scheduling of data center development projects during the preconstruction phase. This role is crucial for developing, maintaining, and analyzing project schedules, ensuring clear visibility into key milestones, dependencies, and risks for project teams and STACK leadership.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed preconstruction schedules from initial planning through handoff to construction, aligned with project milestones and program objectives.
• Build and update schedules within STACK's scheduling framework, maintaining accurate logic, dependencies, durations, and milestone dates.
• Partner with internal teams and external stakeholders to integrate design, permitting, procurement, utilities, commercial, and other key workstreams into a cohesive schedule.
• Lead schedule working sessions to validate assumptions, sequence activities, identify constraints, and surface risks early.
• Analyze critical path, near-critical path, float trends, and milestone movement, and recommend mitigation or recovery actions.
• Prepare schedule updates, milestone reporting, and what-if analysis for project teams and STACK leadership.
• Support continuous improvement of scheduling standards, templates, and reporting practices across preconstruction.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 7-10 years of direct project scheduling experience on large-scale, complex projects.
• 3-5 years of data center or mission-critical scheduling experience, ideally in preconstruction.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and diverse stakeholder groups.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams.

Qualifications

• Eligible to work in the United States.
• Pass comprehensive background and drug screening.

Skills

• Think strategically about project sequencing and execution.
• Translate complex inputs into clear paths to execution.
• Communicate schedule logic, tradeoffs, and risks in a practical way.
• Manage shifting priorities, urgent requests, and multiple timelines without losing clarity.
• Naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement.
• Build trust through dependable work product.

Benefits

• Healthcare, Dental Care, Vision Insurance.
• Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Paid Leave Programs.

Pay

Competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Domestic and international travel required; 10-20% at times.

Why STACK?

• Competitive compensation package with strong benefits.
• Foster a culture of appreciation with peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs.
• Fun is part of our DNA, with events, game nights, happy hours, and barbecues.
• We are growing – this is a great time to join and make an impact!
• Equal Opportunity Employer.

Note to external agencies

We are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/cvs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to STACK INFRASTRUCTURE, INC. will not be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of STACK INFRASTRUCTURE, INC.