Lead Scheduler

About VIRTUS

VIRTUS Data Centres is the UK’s fastest-growing data centre provider. We own, design, build, and operate some of the most energy-efficient, flexible, and secure data centres in Europe.

In 2023, we announced our expansion into continental Europe, starting with Berlin and Milan, with plans to grow further across the region.

At VIRTUS, we aim to be a positive force in the fourth industrial revolution—delivering innovative solutions while staying firmly rooted in our core values:
Clarity & Quality, Accountability, Customer Commitment, Purposeful Innovation, and Capability & Growth.

The Lead Scheduler will play a critical role in supporting the successful planning, scheduling, and delivery of VIRTUS Data Centre construction projects across the region. This role is responsible for driving schedule excellence, consistency, and predictability across multiple live developments, ensuring robust schedule controls are embedded from design through construction, commissioning, and handover. Working closely with internal project teams, General Contractors, consultants, and delivery partners, the Lead Scheduler will oversee schedule governance, schedule integrity, risk management, reporting, and production control to improve delivery certainty and support the successful build of mission‑critical data centre facilities.

The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in complex construction scheduling, ideally within data centres, mission‑critical, high‑tech, or large‑scale infrastructure environments, with the ability to drive consistency, influence stakeholders, and enhance schedule performance across multiple projects.

• Lead the development and maintenance of integrated delivery schedules across regional data centre construction projects.
• Validate baseline schedules with project teams, General Contractors, and consultants to ensure accuracy, milestone alignment, and critical path integrity.
• Schedule analytics, health check and probability analysis.
• Ensure alignment across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and IST activities.

• Establish consistent scheduling standards, reporting, and schedule governance across projects in line with Virtus scheduling requirements.
• Identify schedule deviations early and develop mitigation or recovery strategies with project delivery teams.
• Support project change control and ensure contractor schedules align with VIRTUS delivery requirements.

• Establish and monitor Schedule Quantitative Risk Assessments (SQRA) to evaluate school risk and potential delays, impacts and mitigations.
• Utilise the DCMA – 14-point assessment standard to evaluate metrics such as missing logic, hard constraints, high float, resource loading/earned value management and SPI.
• Develop recovery plans and scenario analysis to support informed project decisions and forecasting.
• Support scenario planning (Monte Carlo) analysis to generate probability outcomes for intended schedule completion dates.

• On a monthly basis monitor schedule performance, key milestones, and critical path activities, identifying risks and deviations.
• Produce clear schedule reporting dashboards, schedule performance metrics for program‑wide assessment.
• Integrate schedule, cost, and risk data to improve project visibility and decision‑making.

• Champion the use of scheduling and construction tools including Primavera P6 (Preferred), MS Project, Procore, Buildots, Visilean, and Power BI.
• Drive consistency, automation, and continuous improvement in scheduling processes and reporting.

• Support structured planning and production control methodologies across projects.
• Collaborate with Design teams, Procurement, Project Managers, Construction partners, and Commissioning teams to drive schedule alignment and predictable delivery performance and outcomes.
• Facilitate planning sessions and challenge schedule assumptions to improve outcomes.

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, Engineering (CSA, Mechanical,…