Senior Scheduler - Data Center Construction

Senior Scheduler - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Construction Scheduler to work with our team in Dallas, TX and a leading technology client on a large‑scale data center construction program.

The Senior Scheduler should have experience working with cross‑functional teams and stakeholders to plan, develop and execute construction schedules for mission‑critical facilities, including new builds and retrofits of existing operating facilities.

The ideal candidate should have an excellent understanding of scheduling best practices, resource‑ and cost‑loaded scheduling, overall construction project controls, and the interpersonal skills to work closely with the internal stakeholders of the project team on a daily basis.

The Senior Scheduler will take responsibility for end‑to‑end service delivery and act as the key, day‑to‑day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value‑added service. Successful candidates must have strong communication skills and be comfortable operating in a client‑facing role.

• Regular travel to construction site is expected.
• Effectively work with stakeholders, clients, contractors and subcontractors on a daily basis.
• Develop and maintain a detailed construction program schedule using Primavera P6 and Tableau for multi‑project environments.
• Ensure that schedule‑related data from vendors, suppliers, engineering and construction contractors of actual projects is provided as feedback into the planning and scheduling systems.
• Implement project planning & scheduling strategy, plans and procedures, reflecting both company and contractor roles, responsibilities and expectations.
• Actively work with project managers, construction firms and subcontractor firms as necessary to maintain schedule integrity.
• Provide interface and quality assurance to project functional groups and contractors regarding the tracking and reporting of schedule performance.
• Coordinate and organize multiple sources of schedule inputs/performance data into a master schedule platform and deliver project/program status reports as required.
• Prepare and update progress reports as required by the client, including the integrated planning/scheduling contribution to the monthly project report and specific reports/presentations.
• Produce high‑level and 1, 3, 6‑month look‑ahead from P6 for reporting.
• Perform probabilistic analysis on integrated schedules and contractor schedules.
• Monitor and communicate any possible project issues that could delay the schedule.
• Conduct required project schedule analysis, critical path analysis and schedule risk analysis for the project as a whole.
• Analyze deviations from the baseline in the project master schedule, highlighting bottlenecks and delays, and propose corrective actions and highlight the overall schedule impact of any variance or change order.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

• Experience working in mission‑critical environments is preferred, including commissioning activities.
• Construction experience – site‑level construction experience that knows the construction process.
• Understanding of best practice relating to the delivery of a construction program is required.
• Extensive experience creating and managing large‑scale construction schedules in Primavera P6.
• A background in project controls is beneficial.
• Familiarity with construction drawings, specifications and construction sequencing is required.
• Being able to…