Senior Scheduler (Data Center Due Diligence and Preconstruction)

Turner & Townsend • $170K — $190K *
San Francisco, CA 94112In-Person
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in planning and scheduling, preferably in data centers or mission-critical facilities.
  • Located in/near San Francisco, CA or Northern VA; remote candidates considered with travel capability.
  • Proficient in P6 or equivalent scheduling software with understanding of logic and critical path.
  • Familiar with earned value management for verifying reported schedule progress.
  • Knowledge of equipment timelines, utility sequencing, permitting, and commissioning in complex construction projects.
  • Understanding of acceleration levers in data center construction.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills for conveying complex findings clearly.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities across concurrent projects.

Responsibilities

  • Review and assess developer construction schedules, including critical path and sequencing.
  • Evaluate equipment and staffing plans to ensure resource commitments are sound.
  • Clearly communicate known versus assumed project timelines.
  • Identify hidden risks in schedules such as permitting and equipment delays.
  • Conduct trend analysis on schedule variations over time.
  • Assess options for recovering time when delivery dates are at risk.
  • Ensure a thorough schedule record is handed to onsite teams at construction start.
  • Define and maintain standards for the schedule review process, ensuring quality control and consistency.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Opportunity for professional growth through exposure to complex, high-profile projects.
  • Flexible working conditions with remote work options and minimal travel required.
  • Engagement with a team of skilled professionals in a supportive environment.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Scheduler for a confidential hyperscale data center client, both setting the standard other reviewers work to and carrying a portfolio of independent schedule reviews yourself. You will test whether developer-provided delivery dates are realistic, and you will decide what a rigorous review looks like for everyone doing that work alongside you.

Responsibilities
  • Schedule review: Assess developer construction schedules from the ground up: logic, critical path and near-critical activity credibility, float, and sequencing. Confirm whether the delivery date, power connection, and commissioning and testing timelines are actually realistic, against the client's and our team's benchmarks.
  • Supply chain and resourcing: Review the equipment and staffing plan behind a schedule, including long lead equipment orders and resource loading, and confirm whether the labor and materials backing the dates are firm commitments or assumptions.
  • Evidence discipline: Be precise about what is known versus what is assumed. State plainly whether a number or date is confirmed, estimated, or simply what the developer has claimed, and hold your team to the same standard.
  • Risk identification: Flag the risks a clean-looking schedule hides: long lead equipment, permitting, utility connections, seasonal weather, and compressed commissioning windows.
  • Trend and variance analysis: Track how each schedule moves from one review to the next, not just a single point-in-time snapshot, and flag material variances and their likely cause.
  • Acceleration analysis: Where a date is at risk, assess what could actually recover time, and which options are real versus cosmetic.
  • Delivery handover: At construction start, make sure a clear schedule record, what was confirmed, what was assumed, and what is still an open risk, is handed to the onsite construction team on every deal your team touches.
  • Setting the standard: Define what a complete, defensible schedule review looks like: the checklist, the depth of testing, and the level of evidence required, and hold every review on the team to it.
  • Quality control: Review your team's higher-stakes findings before they reach a client, catching gaps or unsupported claims before anyone else does.
  • Benchmarking: Build and maintain the library of schedule benchmarks, typical durations for long lead equipment, permitting, energization, and commissioning, that the whole team reviews against, so judgment calls are grounded in real data rather than memory.
  • Process improvement: Build and refine the templates, tools, and checklists the schedule discipline runs on as the portfolio and the team grow.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications

  • 10 plus years of planning and scheduling experience, data center or other mission-critical facility delivery strongly preferred.
  • Preferably located in/near San Francisco, CA or Northern VA but will consider remote candidates as well as long as they are able to travel occasionally for site visits and team collaboration.
  • Working fluency in P6 or equivalent scheduling software, including logic, critical path, and float credibility.
  • Familiarity with earned value management (EVM) or similar progress-measurement methods, to independently sanity-check a developer's reported percent complete against actual schedule progress.
  • Practical knowledge of long lead equipment timelines, utility and energization sequencing, permitting, and commissioning and testing durations in complex facility construction.
  • Understanding of acceleration levers in data center construction, and the judgment to tell a real one from a cosmetic one.
  • Comfortable delivering a difficult finding to a developer directly, professionally, and on a deadline, and comfortable holding a colleague's work to that same standard.
  • Able to work from incomplete or dated information and state the caveats plainly, rather than waiting for a perfect dataset.
  • Proven ability to manage competing priorities across multiple concurrent projects, and across a team's workload, not just your own.
  • Strong written communication. Findings need to be usable by people who were not in the review, and feed directly into the client-facing due diligence report.
  • AACE PSP or PMI-SP certification is a plus, not required.
  • Technologically proficient, including MS Suite and Google Workspace in addition to scheduling software.

Project/Program Specifications
  • Market sector experience: Data center development, mission critical facilities, or complex technical and hyperscale buildings strongly preferred.
  • Software specific requirements: P6 or equivalent scheduling software, MS Suite, and Google Workspace.
  • Travel: Minimal, approximately 3 days per month, plus occasional site visits and team collaboration.


Additional Information

The salary range for this role is $170,000 - $190,000. This range reflects the company's good faith estimate of the base salary for this position at the time of the posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.

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