Site Planning Lead

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Responsibilities

• Lead project-level schedule coordination and updates, including IMS maintenance, forecast adjustments, variance commentary, and alignment with site execution status.
• Develop, maintain, and update the project Integrated Master Schedule covering design, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, and readiness milestones.
• Own GC schedule management for assigned project(s), including weekly schedule review meetings, monthly schedule submissions, lookahead reviews, schedule narratives, progress validation, and action tracking.
• Support contractor baseline schedule development and evaluation during pre-construction, ensuring alignment with program guidance, requirements, project milestones, sequencing, and execution strategy.
• Validate GC schedule updates against field progress through site walks, GC inputs, actual start/finish dates, progress quantities, and milestone evidence.
• Analyze schedule performance by tracking critical path, float consumption, logic quality, forecast movement, schedule health, resource loading, resource curves, and schedule variance trends.
• Identify schedule risks, blockers, potential delays, and missed commitments; document and communicate them through risk registers, weekly reporting, health reviews, and project forums.
• Conduct initial review and support validation of Time Impact Analyses (TIAs), EOT requests, delay narratives, and schedule change impacts before escalation to the Sub-Regional Planning Lead and internal stakeholders.
• Assess impacts of design changes, procurement/long-lead equipment delays, permitting constraints, commissioning constraints, construction sequencing changes, and labor/resource issues.
• Develop recovery schedule options, mitigation scenarios, and what-if analysis to support project decision-making and schedule optimization.
• Produce weekly and monthly schedule reports, including schedule status, milestone performance, lookahead risks, variance root cause, mitigation actions, and required stakeholder decisions.
• Support baseline management and change control throughout the project lifecycle by maintaining schedule assumptions, basis of schedule, change narratives, and decision records.
• Facilitate collaborative planning, pull planning, and lookahead sessions with GC and site teams to improve field coordination and execution readiness.
• Escalate risks, repeated schedule quality issues, missing GC submissions, or stakeholder blockers to the Sub-Regional Planning Lead with clear facts, options, and recommendations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years related experience OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including Microsoft Cloud Background Check (required upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related experience OR equivalent experience.
• 7+ years experience working on data center projects.
• Primavera P6 capability and understanding of CPM scheduling methodology.
• Experience maintaining construction project schedules and performing weekly/monthly schedule updates.
• Experience working with contractors, site teams, engineering, procurement, commissioning, and project controls stakeholders.
• Ability to prepare clear schedule narratives, variance commentary, risk updates, and forecast explanations.

Pay

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $97,600 - $188,400 per year. A different range applies to specific work locations, including the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, where the base pay range is USD $125,000 - $206,400 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Additional pay information can be found at Microsoft Careers Pay Information.