Scheduler / Planner - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, we transform challenges into opportunities and deliver outcomes that improve lives. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset, and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero, and digital solutions.

About the role

Turner & Townsend is seeking multiple Schedulers / Planners to support complex, large-scale data center construction programs across several regional subregions. These roles require senior planning professionals with strong Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project expertise, critical path method scheduling capability, and the ability to communicate schedule risks, trends, and recovery options to project teams and senior stakeholders. Must be able to travel or work onsite when needed (Atlanta, GA - Dallas, TX - Phoenix, AZ - Richmond, VA).

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated planning and scheduling support for large-scale data center construction projects.
• Develop, maintain, and improve detailed schedules, milestone tracking, dependencies, resource assumptions, and schedule reporting outputs.
• Apply critical path method scheduling to assess schedule logic, identify trends, and communicate risks, impacts, mitigations, and recovery options.
• Partner with client teams, project stakeholders, delivery partners, and contractors to align planning outputs with project execution needs.
• Manage multiple project schedules simultaneously while maintaining accuracy, consistency, and timely reporting.
• Prepare clear schedule updates for project leadership and senior stakeholders, adjusting level of detail based on the audience.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of expert-level planning and scheduling experience using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Experience supporting design and construction project management for medium-to-large capital programs.
• Background planning capital projects in the $500MM to $2B+ range, preferably in data center construction or related process-intensive industries.
• Strong knowledge of critical path method scheduling, schedule health analysis, and schedule risk identification.
• Ability to analyze EPC plans and schedules, identify trends, and clearly communicate mitigation strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to self-direct, solve problems, and operate effectively in a fast-paced project environment.
• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to present detailed schedule data in concise leadership-ready summaries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Data center design and construction delivery experience.
• Schedule risk analysis experience and familiarity with related planning tools.
• Experience supporting executive reporting, recovery planning, or schedule governance in complex capital programs.

Pay

The salary range for this full-time role is $140K–$170K per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent base salary only. Turner & Townsend reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on candidate's experience and qualifications.

Benefits

We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.