Planning Lead

Meta is seeking a construction professional to join our design, engineering, and construction organization. You will collaborate closely with our leadership, site development, preconstruction and delivery teams to manage the early phase of projects in due diligence through handoff to preconstruction teams. Additionally, you will manage new product design commercial implications and constructability. This individual will have demonstrated experience with product design, procurement, budgets, scheduling, and constructability.

Minimum Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience

* Bachelor's degree in construction management, or equivalent technical degree and/or minimum of fifteen (15) years direct professional experience in Commercial Management, Preconstruction, Construction Management, Engineering, Scheduling or equivalent

* Demonstrated communication and coordination skills to lead a team towards a single project outcome

* Familiar with large capital programs, ground-up construction and greenfield site development as well as retrofit construction

* Proficiency in all aspects of Preconstruction:
Site Development, Diligence Review, Budget Development, Scheduling, Change Management, Risk Management, Negotiation, etc

* Demonstrated understanding and perspective of construction schedules, costs, supply chain analysis, risk analysis, labor markets, project cash flows and commercial contract terms and contract delivery methods

* Knowledge in Scheduling tool working experience (P6 or equivalent), with full understanding of construction interdependencies and critical path analysis

* Mission Critical/ Data Center experience is required in addition to hyperscale builds

Preferred Qualifications

* Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

* Professional Engineers license in mechanical, electrical or civil engineering or an advanced degree, and/or certification in Project Management or Scheduling

* Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

* Knowledge in scheduling tool working experience (P6 or equivalent), with a full understanding of construction interdependencies and critical path analysis

* Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

Responsibilities

* Build high level "Path to Break Ground Schedules", factoring the location, the site conditions, time of the year, labor availability, type of design implemented, etc. Path to Break Ground schedule will include identification of critical decision milestones and identify "last responsible moment" for critical path decisions and commitments required to hold break ground, foundation start and hand over dates. Early financial commitments will be flagged and potential sunk cost risk identified

* The candidate should have deep knowledge of construction scheduling and expertise to understand and inform the critical path schedule from "tip to tail" of land development through commissioning and handover complete. Ability to highlight key milestones and decision gates for leadership decisions as well as key commitments and risks highlighted during the development process

* Contribute to the delivery of the master plan analysis for future sites, including accessibility, logistic plan, off site improvements, geotechnical analysis, local requirements, neighbor risk mitigation, market conditions, labor availability, etc

* Provide a clean transition and embedment of new region and new product development from DEC Planning to DEC Execution Teams (Preconstruction, Delivery, Data Center Operations)

* Set the targets for each project (Cost and schedule) and communicate to the stakeholders. Coordinate multiple internal XFN teams (energy, site selection, product design, etc) and external teams (GCs, Integrators, TCs). Define the deliverables needed and the quality expected. Keep teams accountable to drive successful…