Microsoft

Site Planning Lead

Microsoft • $116K — $203K *
Pecos, TX 79772In-Person
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or a related field AND 10+ years of related experience, or equivalent experience.
  • 12+ years of direct experience focusing on data center projects.
  • At least 8 years in planning, scheduling, construction management, or project controls.
  • Proficient in Primavera P6 and knowledgeable about CPM scheduling methodology.
  • Demonstrated experience in maintaining construction project schedules with regular updates.
  • Collaborative experience working with contractors and various project stakeholders.
  • Strong capability to produce clear and concise schedule narratives and risk assessments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead project schedule coordination and updates, ensuring alignment with execution status.
  • Maintain and update the Integrated Master Schedule across project phases.
  • Manage GC scheduling for assigned projects, conducting regular reviews and validations.
  • Support baseline schedule development for contractors, ensuring it meets project milestones.
  • Validate schedule updates in real-time against field progress through site inspections.
  • Analyze performance metrics for critical paths and schedule health indicators.
  • Identify and document schedule-related risks and potential delays, reporting them to stakeholders.
  • Assist in evaluating Time Impact Analyses and change requests before escalating issues.
  • Assess impacts from changes such as design modifications and procurement delays.
  • Develop recovery schedule options and scenarios to optimize project timelines.
  • Produce comprehensive schedule reports detailing status and variance analysis.
  • Facilitate collaborative planning sessions to enhance project execution readiness.
  • Escalate persistent scheduling issues or risks to the Sub-Regional Planning Lead with actionable recommendations.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Retirement savings plans with company match.
  • Career development and education assistance opportunities.
  • Generous paid time off and vacation policies.
  • Employee resource groups and community engagement initiatives.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

  • Lead project-level schedule coordination and updates, including IMS maintenance, forecast adjustments, variance commentary, and alignment with site execution status.


  • Develop, maintain, and update the project Integrated Master Schedule covering design, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, and readiness milestones.


  • Own GC schedule management for assigned project(s), including weekly schedule review meetings, monthly schedule submissions, lookahead reviews, schedule narratives, progress validation, and action tracking.


  • Support contractor baseline schedule development and evaluation during pre-construction, ensuring alignment with program guidance, requirements, project milestones, sequencing, and execution strategy.


  • Validate GC schedule updates against field progress through site walks, GC inputs, actual start / finish dates, progress quantities, and milestone evidence.


  • Analyze schedule performance by tracking critical path, float consumption, logic quality, forecast movement, schedule health, resource loading, resource curves, and schedule variance trends.


  • Identify schedule risks, blockers, potential delays, and missed commitments, then document and communicate them through risk registers, weekly reporting, health reviews, and project forums.


  • Conduct initial review and support validation of Time Impact Analyses (TIAs), EOT requests, delay narratives, and schedule change impacts before escalation to the Sub-Regional Planning Lead and internal stakeholders.


  • Assess impacts of design changes, procurement / long-lead equipment delays, permitting constraints, commissioning constraints, construction sequencing changes, and labor / resource issues.


  • Develop recovery schedule options, mitigation scenarios, and what-if analysis to support project decision-making and schedule optimization.


  • Produce weekly and monthly schedule reports, including schedule status, milestone performance, lookahead risks, variance root cause, mitigation actions, and required stakeholder decisions.


  • Support baseline management and change control throughout the project lifecycle by maintaining schedule assumptions, basis of schedule, change narratives, and decision records.


  • Facilitate collaborative planning, pull planning, and lookahead sessions with GC and site teams to improve field coordination and execution readiness.


  • Escalate risks, repeated schedule quality issues, missing GC submissions, or stakeholder blockers to the Sub-Regional Planning Lead with clear facts, options, and recommendations.


Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years related experience OR equivalent experience.


Additional or preferred qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years related experience OR equivalent experience.
  • 12+ years experience working on data center projects.
  • 8+ years of planning, scheduling, construction management, project controls, or related field experience.
  • Primavera P6 capability and understanding of CPM scheduling methodology.
  • Experience maintaining construction project schedules and performing weekly / monthly schedule updates.
  • Experience working with contractors, site teams, engineering, procurement, commissioning, and project controls stakeholders.
  • Ability to prepare clear schedule narratives, variance commentary, risk updates, and forecast explanations.


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Construction Project Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $116,900 - $203,600 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 $148,400 - $222,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
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