Construction Logistics Planner

Compass Datacenters$75K — $95K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of logistics experience in high-rise construction or heavy OFCI/prefab modular programs
  • Ability to effectively communicate complex ideas to varied audiences, including executive leadership
  • Experience managing concurrent vertical construction work
  • Strong background in working within constrained urban job sites
  • History of delivering projects on time despite challenging conditions

Responsibilities

  • Engage in site logistics during selection to inform site constraint planning
  • Maintain a live sequencing overview across campuses and document rationale for changes
  • Set prescriptive logistics requirements in RFPs and hold bidders accountable
  • Drive clarity in sequencing with GCs during construction phases
  • Act as a resource for managers dealing with sequencing challenges across campuses

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • 401K with company match
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) policy
Full Job Description
Compass is looking for a Construction Logistics Planner who can translate high-rise and heavy OFCI construction logistics expertise into the Compass campus build model - shifting the organization from downstream firefighting to upstream, prescriptive planning. This is a new role with high visibility and a cross-functional mandate from day one. It reports into the SVP, Delivery and works directly with Development, Design, Finance, Customer Success, General Contractors, and Commissioning/Operations - serving as the connective tissue that ensures every logistics decision is made early, intentionally, and in service of continuously improving the schedule performance of Compass's data center builds. Responsibilities: • Front-End Site Logistics: Engage during site selection to provide logistics inputs - batch plant location, lay-down areas, staging, parking, traffic flows, ring-road installation, and berm timing - before land is acquired. Ensure site constraints inform the build model from the outset, not as an afterthought. • Campus Sequencing Oversight: Maintain a single, live sequencing view across all active campuses. Drive nimble pivots when site conditions, customer requirements, or GC schedules shift - and document every resequencing decision with clear rationale and downstream impact. • RFP Table-Setting: Make Compass's logistics requirements prescriptive in the RFP. Conduct sequencing walk-throughs with prospective GCs before an initial schedule is made - mirroring the Compass page-turn model - and hold bidders accountable to submitting draft logistics plans as a standard RFP deliverable. • Base Build Sequencing: Drive clearer sequencing logic with GCs during active construction, establishing "walk us through the sequence" as a standard checkpoint. Proactively identify fit-out conflicts - especially where base build and WSFO work is concurrent - before they become schedule risk. • Resequencing Support: Serve as the go-to resource for Delivery Managers across active campuses facing sequencing challenges. Help identify pivot options, quantify schedule impact, and communicate changes to project teams and stakeholders when conditions shift or a GC falls behind. Skills and Experience: • Exceptional communicator who is good with analogies and is able to translate complex sequencing logic to both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership. • As passionate about days in a schedule as Compass's best financial operators are about dollars in a budget. • Experience working "inside the box", or within defined constraints, to change industry norms and confidently push back on GCs and other contractors to build our data centers the Compass Way. • Demonstrated ability to develop and lead prescriptive pre-construction walk-throughs with GCs; comfortable running a detailed sequence review before an initial GC schedule has been made. Requirements: • Logistics experience on high-rise construction or heavy OFCI/pre-fab modular programs - with direct experience managing concurrent vertical work: fitting out lower floors while structure continues above. • Proven track record on constrained urban job sites with limited lay-down space, active multi-trade sequencing, and real-time resequencing under pressure - and a history of finishing on time despite those conditions. • Construction experience is a bonus. Location: Dallas, TX Employer will not sponsor applicants for new employment visa status. Benefits: Medical | Dental | Vision | Voluntary | 401K | Unlimited PTO (USA)

About Compass Datacenters

Compass, Inc. is an American licensed real estate broker that utilizes the Internet as a marketing medium with the use of real estate technology. Compass employs more than 20,000 agents who earn a percentage of the selling price and give 15 to 30 percent on each sale to Compass. Compass specializes in high-margin, luxury homes in upscale markets. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in New York City. The company provides software to real estate agents. Compass is the first company to have built a proprietary mobile app for real estate agents. Compass operates in 20 U.S. markets including New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington D.C., Dallas, South Florida, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Aspen, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara and Newport Beach. Compass has raised a total of US$1.5 billion from investors such as Founders Fund, Wellington Management and Institutional Venture Partners, Fidelity Investments, Dragoneer Investment Group, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and SoftBank Vision Fund. Compass was named Mid-Sized Business of the Year by the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce in 2015. Compass was named to Crain's Fast 50, Inc. 5000, and Glassdoor's Best Places to Work in 2018. Compass received a Webby Award for Best Real Estate Website, and was named to Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2019. Compass won the 2020 Webby People’s Voice Award for Real Estate in the category Web.
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