Construction Scheduler, NA

About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well‑known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

The Construction team is responsible for the management of delivering data centers from conception through commissioning, working with Sales, Operations, New Site Development, and Innovation and Engineering along the way. Construction also works closely with partner contractors to come up with a vertically coordinated design and leads these partners to deliver the projects on schedule and budget.

Vantage empowers its technical staff to directly drive the process, aligning long‑term operational sustainability with value engineering and cost metrics to deliver products aligned with company goals.

Location:

Goodyear, AZ. Vantage is looking for an ambitious, diligent, hands‑on Construction Scheduler to drive overall project schedule durations at a programmatic level across the company portfolio. You will join the Project Controls team, providing professional scheduling capabilities and enabling Vantage’s ability to accelerate speed to market. You will create schedules at every stage of the project lifecycle and be expected to identify ways to re‑sequence work to shorten overall project durations.

• Develop policies and procedures for scheduling and facilitate user training with internal and external stakeholders
• Prepare conceptual and detailed schedules
• 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
• Develop P6 training guidelines and roll out to teams

• Create, review, and analyze critical path schedules independently and efficiently
• Develop comprehensive plans that communicate the programs, projects, and strategic goals
• Represent a realistic and feasible planning approach for our main internal customer — Construction
• Communicate effectively through clear and concise means appropriate to the project’s goals (verbal, written, graphical)
• Monitor schedule performance data, develop complex data analysis, and issue schedule reports required by management and project procedures
• Understand principles of cost estimating and productivity in establishing schedule parameters (duration, cost and resource loading, etc.)
• Investigate and incorporate project constraints in planning effort
• Perform Time Impact Analysis and claims analysis
• Utilize schedule diagnostic tools (e.g., Acumen Fuse) to monitor schedule performance data, develop analysis, and issue reports
• Develop schedule variance analysis
• Work with vertical peers focusing on continuous improvement of business processes
• Run schedule risk scenarios based on Monte Carlo and other risk analysis

• Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Estimating, or relevant functional discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 3–5 years related work experience
• Data Center experience is strongly preferred, but not required
• Strong understanding of the Critical Path Method of scheduling
• Ability to understand construction documents (drawings, specifications, contracts/general conditions) at all levels of design
• Expert knowledge of Primavera Scheduling Software (P6, latest version)
• Moderate experience using Procore & Power BI preferred
• Extensive experience using Microsoft Office software (Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Word)
• Travel required:
  
  10–20% based on business needs

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with…