Scheduling Manager (Owner's Representative) - Data Center Construction
KALCON · Chicago, IL · 1 mo ago
On-siteManagement$150k/yrFull-time
About the role
Seeking a Scheduling Manager to provide Owner Rep P6 schedule oversight of General Contractor schedules on a data center build in Coal City, IL. This is a hybrid remote flex role that will require commitment to 25-50% travel to the Coal City, IL site.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or relevant functional discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 3-10+ years related work
- Understand the Critical Path Method of scheduling theoretically and as it applies to projects
- Ability to understand and accurately interpret construction documents (drawings, specifications, contracts/general conditions) at all levels of design
- Expert knowledge of Primavera Scheduling Software (P6, latest Version) and MS
- Extensive experience using Microsoft Office software tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Word
- Data center experience is a plus
Duties and Responsibilities
- Independently audit general contractor (GC) Primavera P6 schedules (XER files) for accuracy and conformance to client standards and project requirements
- Help to establish and maintain a national, repeatable scheduling framework—including templates, coding structures, and reporting formats
- Track and report critical milestones, enabling client leadership to make timely, data‑driven decisions
- Baseline & Progress Audits: Monthly at minimum; Focused Audits: Weekly, upon GC update receipt or at client request
- Track OFCI equipment delivery dates and highlight problem areas, with the afore mentioned superintendent and subcontractor buy-in to solutions
- Run DCMA Checks
- Compare against contractual baseline & previous period
- Review activities that are running in parallel
- Review multiple float paths
- Identify variance drivers & risks
- Recommend corrective actions
- Standardize L1 and L2 Milestones to be able to compare different construction projects
- Validate that constraints are assigned only to required L1 and L2 identifies milestones and ensure that the critical path is logical
- Ability to translate, create and update schedule sequences to PDF drawings for visual
- You will join the Project Controls team in providing professional scheduling capabilities and enable Client's ability to profoundly affect and accelerate speed to market
- Responsible for developing policies and procedures for scheduling and facilitating user training with our internal and external stakeholders
- Contribute to the development of planning and sequencing of activities from concept through commissioning
- Define activities and associated scope, durations, logic, and interface between activities and resource loading of those activities
- Review and analyze critical path schedules, in an efficient and comprehensive manner
- Develop comprehensive plans that communicates the programs, projects, and strategic goals
- Monitor schedule performance data, develop complex data analysis, and issue schedule reports required by management and project procedures
- Investigate and incorporate project constraints in planning effort
- Perform Time Impact Analysis and Claims analyzation
- Develop schedule variance analysis
- Run schedule risk scenarios based on Monte Carlo and other risk analysis
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Long Term Disability
- 401(k) retirement plan with 4% KALCON match when an employee contributes at least 5%
- 15 days of paid time off
- 8 paid national holidays
- Reimbursement for professional licenses and certifications
Pay
$150,000 USD - $225,000 USD