Director, Data Center Planning & Scheduling

Oracle•Palo Alto, CA

1d•$146,300 - $306,400•Onsite

About The Position

The Director, Data Center Planning & Scheduling will lead the client planning and scheduling function for a construction campus comprising multiple data centers and shared infrastructure. The role manages a team of planners and schedulers to establish integrated schedules, assess delivery performance, identify emerging risks, and provide clear advice to client leadership. It provides oversight and challenge of contractor schedules, ensuring campus priorities, building completion dates, infrastructure readiness, commissioning, and operational handover are aligned. The role requires 50% travel. The Director will develop and maintain the client’s integrated campus master schedule, coordinating design, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, handover, shared infrastructure, and long-lead equipment milestones. The position applies advanced Critical Path Method (CPM) analysis, evaluates contractor schedules and recovery plans, forecasts delivery dates, and supports schedule risk, change, and delay assessments. It also leads campus planning reviews and contractor coordination, and provides evidence-based reporting and recommendations to client leadership. Success in the role includes maintaining a credible integrated campus schedule, identifying risks and adverse trends promptly, producing clear forecasts and actionable recommendations, maintaining consistent planning outputs, coordinating construction through operational handover, and keeping traceable records of schedule impacts and decisions.

Requirements

Degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
Substantial planning and scheduling experience on major construction programs, including leadership of planning teams.
Experience delivering data centers, mission-critical facilities, or similarly complex projects with significant building services and commissioning requirements.
Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple concurrent projects and shared infrastructure within an integrated program.
Advanced CPM knowledge and proficiency in Primavera P6 or an equivalent enterprise scheduling platform.
Strong capabilities in schedule trending, analytics, forecasting, and interpretation of complex project data.
Experience reviewing and challenging contractor schedules, progress submissions, and recovery plans.
Strong communication, stakeholder management, and team development skills, with the confidence to provide objective client advice.

Nice To Haves

Monte Carlo schedule risk analysis, including assessment of uncertainty, risk dependencies, confidence levels, and contingency requirements.
Forensic planning and delay analysis, including time impact analysis, windows analysis, critical path assessment, and evaluation of contemporaneous records.
Client-side planning leadership on multi-building data center campuses.
Familiarity with utility energization, long-lead electrical and mechanical equipment, integrated systems testing, and phased operational handover.
Experience using Power BI or similar tools to automate schedule reporting and develop analytical dashboards.
Relevant professional certification, such as PMI-SP, AACE PSP, or an equivalent qualification.

Responsibilities

Lead, develop, and coordinate a team of planners and schedulers across multiple buildings, infrastructure packages, and delivery phases.
Allocate resources according to project priorities and maintain consistent planning standards, methods, and reporting.
Review team deliverables and provide technical guidance on scheduling, analysis, and forecasting.
Establish ownership of schedule interfaces and coordinate with contractors and client stakeholders.
Develop and maintain the integrated campus master schedule, covering design, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
Coordinate dependencies between data centers and shared infrastructure, including power, utilities, communications, access, and logistics.
Integrate long-lead equipment manufacturing, delivery, installation, and testing milestones into the overall delivery plan.
Establish schedule baselines, milestone definitions, progress measurement requirements, and schedule update procedures.
Evaluate contractor baseline schedules, updates, recovery plans, and proposed changes for completeness, credibility, and alignment with client requirements.
Coordinate phased turnover and commissioning sequences with client operations and relevant technical teams.
Apply CPM expertise to assess schedule logic, activity durations, calendars, constraints, float, and critical and near-critical paths.
Assess whether schedules accurately represent construction methods, sequencing, interfaces, and completion requirements.
Identify open-ended activities, excessive constraints, inappropriate lags, and other weaknesses affecting forecast reliability.
Challenge unsupported assumptions and assess proposed mitigation, acceleration, and recovery measures.
Maintain visibility of the drivers of campus and building completion dates.
Establish schedule performance indicators and dashboards to support timely client decisions.
Analyze milestone movement, float erosion, critical path changes, progress variance, productivity, and procurement performance.
Identify adverse trends across reporting periods and assess their implications for future delivery.
Use schedule data, quantities, production rates, and field evidence to develop realistic completion forecasts.
Prepare scenario and sensitivity analyses to evaluate sequencing options, resource constraints, and mitigation strategies.
Present findings, recommendations, and required decisions to client leadership.
Work with project teams to identify schedule risks and opportunities and track agreed responses.
Assess schedule implications of design changes, procurement delays, access restrictions, and construction or commissioning issues.
Coordinate schedule input into change control and maintain traceable records of assumptions, impacts, and decisions.
Support review of contractor delay submissions and extension-of-time requests with commercial and contracts teams.
Maintain reliable schedule records and supporting evidence for subsequent delay analysis.
Lead campus planning reviews and contractor schedule coordination meetings.
Work with design, construction, procurement, commercial, commissioning, and operations teams.
Report on progress, forecast dates, key dependencies, emerging risks, and corrective actions, including KPIs based on Earned Value Management and trending.
Use input from Lessor, site walks, and performance evaluated by Reality Capture applications eventually deployed on site in reporting.
Escalate material schedule concerns promptly, supported by evidence and practical options.
Ensure schedule commitments and changes follow client governance and approval processes.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Short-term disability insurance
Long-term disability insurance
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance for employees and eligible family members
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on employee eligibility and position
11 paid holidays
72 hours of paid sick leave upon hire, refreshed annually, with carryover up to a 112-hour cap
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal benefits
Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance