Microsoft

Regional Scheduling Lead

Microsoft • $165K — $303K *
San Jose, CA 95123In-Person
Technical Services
11 - 15 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years of experience or equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years working on data center projects is preferred.
  • 10+ years project management experience required.
  • 5+ years people management experience preferred.
  • Proficiency in Primavera P6 EPPM and MS Excel is essential.
  • Professional certification such as PMP, PMI-SP, AACE PSP or equivalent is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, develop, and grow the AMER planning team, managing both employees and vendor planners.
  • Own portfolio-level planning to ensure project schedules align with regional commitments.
  • Serve as the regional subject matter expert in scheduling tools and best practices.
  • Collaborate with Reporting and Analytics team to enhance reporting solutions and KPI frameworks.
  • Deploy global planning standards across the region and lead schedule risk analyses.
  • Build strong relationships across various departments to align the regional schedule with their constraints.
  • Chair planning forums and communicate schedule status and risks to senior stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements including remote options.
  • Opportunities for professional development and coaching.
  • Engagement with a leading technology company.
  • Access to industry-leading tools and methodologies for scheduling.
  • Collaborative work environment with multifaceted teams.
Full Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Regional Scheduling Lead to lead the AMER planning team within EPC Project Controls. This role is accountable for the integrity of the Plan of Record and Integrated Master Schedules across the Americas datacenter delivery portfolio, and for the planners - employees and vendor partners - who develop and maintain them. The AMER portfolio is among the largest in the company: multi-disciplinary, capital-intensive, multi-year build, expansion and lease programs across many markets and regulatory environments. Acting as the regional authority on planning strategy and schedule development, the successful candidate will champion industry-leading scheduling practices, ensuring schedules across the region are developed using sound Critical Path Methodology, bottom-up planning principles, schedule quality standards, and risk-informed decision-making.This is a people-leadership role first: you will size, develop and hold the bar for a regional team, while acting as the single voice of schedule truth to regional and global leadership.

Responsibilities
  • Team Leadership & Capability
    • Lead, develop and grow the AMER planning team and the vendor planners working alongside it. Size the team to the shape of the portfolio, allocate planners to programs on strength and development need, and hold one consistent quality bar across every market. Own performance management, coaching and succession, and own the commercial relationship with planning vendors in partnership with Procurement - scope, service levels, capacity ramp and delivered quality.
  • Planning & Schedule Management
    • Own portfolio-level planning for the Americas so that project, program and portfolio schedules reconcile to one another and to regional capacity commitments. Run the regional baseline and schedule change-control process, ensure critical path and float are analyzed rather than reported, and ensure every Plan of Record carries a defensible logic, resource and risk basis across the full EPC lifecycle including long-lead equipment, utility and permitting paths.
  • Schedule & Planning Expertise
    • Serve as the regional sme in Primavera P6 EPPM and Integrated Master Schedule best practice. Drive bottom-up planning aligned to the Basis of Estimate, validate durations and benchmarks, and strengthen schedule integration and portfolio performance analysis. Partner with Central Project Controls on Estimating, Cost and Risk so that regional schedules and estimates tell the same story.
  • Data, Reporting & Analytics
    • Work with the Reporting and Analytics team to develop enhanced reporting solutions for the region, translate complex schedule and performance data into clear leadership insight, and support KPI frameworks for schedule health, performance tracking and governance. Ensure regional schedules are structured well enough that reporting and capacity models can be built on them without manual reconciliation.
  • Change Management & Governance
    • Deploy and maintain global planning standards across the region rather than a regional dialect of them - work breakdown structures, coding, milestone definitions, progress measurement, quality gates and reporting cadence. Lead Schedule Risk Analysis on the programs carrying the most capacity, run gate assurance reviews, and lead change management for planning initiatives across employees and vendor partners.
  • Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
    • Build durable relationships across Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management, Land Development, Energy, Permitting, Commissioning, Capacity Planning and Finance so that the regional schedule reflects the constraints those teams live with. Chair the regional planning forums, provide the integrated planning input behind funding submissions and approval gates, and present schedule position, risk and recovery options to Director- and VP-level stakeholders


Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years related experience
    • OR equivalent experience.


Background Check Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.


Additional or preferred qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field AND 15+ years related experience
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years experience working on data center projects.
  • 10+ years project management experience.
  • 5+ years people management experience.
  • Proficiency in Primavera P6 EPPM (planning, scheduling and governance) and MS Excel.
  • Professional certification such as PMP, PMI-SP, AACE PSP or equivalent.


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Construction Project Management M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $277,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165,600 - $303,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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