Construction Scheduler, NA

Vantage Data Centers•Shackelford County, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Vantage powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands. The Construction team is responsible for the management of delivering data centers from conception through commissioning, working with Sales, Operations, New Site Development, and Innovation and Engineering along the way. Construction also works closely with partner contractors to come up with a vertically coordinated design and leads these partners to deliver the projects on schedule and budget. This role will be based on-site in Shackelford County, Texas. Vantage is looking for an ambitious, diligent, hands-on Construction Scheduler to drive overall project schedule durations at a programmatic level to be used across the company portfolio. You will join the Project Controls team in providing professional scheduling capabilities and enable Vantage’s ability to profoundly affect and accelerate speed to market. You will be responsible for creating schedules at every stage of the project lifecycle and be expected to identify ways to re-sequence work to shorten overall project durations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Estimating, or relevant functional discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
3-5 years related work experience
Understand the Critical Path Method of scheduling theoretically and as it applies to projects.
Ability to understand construction documents (drawings, specifications, contracts/general conditions) at all levels of design.
Expert knowledge of Primavera Scheduling Software (P6, latest Version)
Extensive experience using Microsoft Office software tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Word.

Nice To Haves

Data Center experience is strongly preferred, but not required.
Moderate experience using Procore & Power BI strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Responsible for developing policies and procedures for scheduling and facilitating user training with our internal and external stakeholders
Prepare conceptual and detailed schedules
Contribute to the development of planning and sequencing of activities from concept through commissioning
Define activities and associated scope, durations, logic, and interface between activities and resource loading of those activities
Develop P6 training guidelines and roll out to teams
Create, review, and analyze critical path schedules independently, in an efficient and comprehensive manner
Develop comprehensive plans that communicates the programs, projects, and strategic goals
Represent a realistic and feasible planning approach for our main internal customer - Construction
Communicate effectively through clear and concise means appropriate to the project’s goals (verbal, written, graphically).
Monitor schedule performance data, develop complex data analysis, and issue schedule reports required by management and project procedures.
Understand principles of cost estimating and productivity in establishing schedule parameters (duration, cost and resource loading, etc.)
Investigate and incorporate project constraints in planning effort.
Perform Time Impact Analysis and Claims analyzation.
Utilize Acumen Fuse, or similar schedule diagnostic, to monitor schedule performance data, develop complex data analysis, and issue schedule reports required by management and project procedures.
Develop schedule variance analysis.
Work with vertical peers focusing on continuous improvement to our business processes.
Run schedule risk scenarios based on Monte Carlo and other risk analysis.

Benefits

medical, dental, and vision coverage
life and AD&D
short and long-term disability coverage
paid time off
employee assistance
participation in a 401k program that includes company match
many other additional voluntary benefits
above market total compensation package
comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations
array of benefits, recognition, training and development