Remote Senior Scheduler - Data Center Construction

About the Client

The organization operates globally in professional services with a workforce exceeding 22,000 across more than 60 countries. It serves clients in real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources sectors, focusing on delivering impactful projects and programs that improve people's lives. The company offers expertise in program, project, cost, asset, and commercial management, along with controls, procurement, net zero initiatives, and digital solutions. It is majority-owned by a large commercial real estate services and investment firm, collaborating to provide premier program, project, and cost management services worldwide.

About the Opportunity

The Senior Construction Scheduler role is central to supporting the planning, scheduling, and execution of complex data center construction projects in the United States. This position involves managing integrated project schedules throughout the project lifecycle, contributing to successful delivery of mission-critical facilities including new builds, expansions, and retrofits. The role supports project performance by identifying risks and opportunities through scheduling expertise and client-facing collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients, project managers, design teams, contractors, and stakeholders.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze detailed project and program schedules using Primavera P6.
• Integrate schedule data from engineering, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and construction teams.
• Implement project planning and scheduling standards and best practices for data center programs.
• Maintain schedule integrity aligned with project objectives and milestones.
• Monitor schedule performance, progress updates, and forecasting to identify delays and recovery options.
• Consolidate schedule data into integrated reporting platforms and dashboards.
• Prepare and present project status reports and executive-level schedule narratives.
• Generate milestone and short-term look-ahead schedules to support execution.
• Perform schedule risk assessments, critical path analysis, and scenario modeling.
• Analyze schedule variances and recommend corrective actions.
• Evaluate impacts of scope changes, design revisions, procurement, and change orders.
• Facilitate schedule review meetings and proactively resolve scheduling issues.
• Support project controls reporting and compliance with company and client standards.
• Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable.

Requirements

• Experience in mission-critical environments including commissioning activities preferred.
• Site-level construction experience with understanding of construction processes.
• Knowledge of best practices in construction program delivery.
• Extensive experience managing large-scale construction schedules in Primavera P6.
• Background in Project Controls is beneficial.
• Familiarity with construction drawings, specifications, and sequencing.
• Ability to work independently and produce detailed schedules from limited information.
• Skills in collaborating across disciplines while maintaining scheduler independence.
• Knowledge of system start-up sequences and dependencies.
• Ability to convert data into Tableau reports and graphics.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• PSP certification by AACE in planning/scheduling is beneficial.
• EIT certification preferred.
• Candidates must be based and authorized to work in the United States; remote work permitted only within the U.S.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $140,000 to $200,000 USD. Final compensation depends on experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity.