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.

• 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 implementation of the road map established.
• Understand and influence the big picture, goals and values of the New Product types. Close collaboration with the Engineering Product Development and Integration in order to differentiate between “must haves” and “nice to haves” and ability to push back and challenge internal partners to accomplish the agreed upon goal. Provide detailed constructability reviews in multiple stages of the project to influence the design to build safer, more predictably, efficiently and cost effectively.
• Leverage cost, schedule and constructability expertise to influence engineering strategy by providing “real time” feedback on cost, schedule and constructibility to inform target pricing, develop value engineering, inform trade‑off evaluations and financial TCO/NPV analysis, ROI analysis, and other models that will be used to inform leadership decision making.
• Anticipate the need of new process and tooling required as the business needs change. Identify and support initiatives to meet the company goals and find opportunities to improve efficiencies.
• Deep knowledge of development and construction scheduling to build programmatic frameworks and critical path analysis to inform “what if” scenario planning and gain a high confidence level for project delivery at the time of site specific design kick off.
• Build strong relationships and consistent communications with the leads of the multiple XFN teams and ICs.
• Thrive in a highly collaborative environment by leveraging core competencies to meaningfully contribute to collective success of your team and the broader cross functional teams essential to successful new region and new product development.
• Travel required:
  
  Up to 25% (20% Domestic and 5% International).

• 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…