Data Center - Project Controls Scheduler

Oracle•United States,

7d•$115,300 - $264,100•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Project Controls Scheduler to own integrated scheduling, schedule analytics, and execution visibility across complex data center, mission-critical, and infrastructure delivery projects. This role leads the development, maintenance, and governance of project and portfolio schedules, validates schedule assumptions in the field, and converts progress, risk, cost, procurement, logistics, commissioning, and turnover data into clear forecasts and actionable recovery plans. The Project Controls Scheduler Lead serves as a senior scheduling and project controls resource, bridging project teams, construction leadership, suppliers, manufacturing partners, logistics stakeholders, commissioning teams, operations partners, and portfolio leadership. Success requires deep CPM scheduling expertise, advanced Primavera capability, disciplined project controls practices, strong analytics, and the ability to connect field realities to executive-level reporting and decision making.

Requirements

Deep CPM scheduling expertise
Advanced Primavera capability
Disciplined project controls practices
Strong analytics
Ability to connect field realities to executive-level reporting and decision making
Experience with Oracle Primavera Cloud

Responsibilities

Lead development, maintenance, and governance of integrated project schedules, portfolio milestone trackers, and schedule reporting rhythms.
Build, status, analyze, and maintain CPM schedules in Oracle Primavera Cloud, including critical path, near-critical path, float, sequencing, constraints, milestones, and logic quality.
Create short-term execution plans, lookaheads, recovery schedules, what-if scenarios, baseline comparisons, and forecast updates that support timely delivery.
Integrate general contractor, subcontractor, supplier, manufacturing, logistics, QA/QC, commissioning, operations, and turnover schedule inputs into a consolidated controls view.
Validate schedule assumptions, progress updates, constraints, and readiness conditions through direct field engagement and stakeholder coordination.
Support cost and schedule integration, variance analysis, recovery forecasting, and project or portfolio health reporting.
Prepare executive dashboards, performance scorecards, KPI summaries, action trackers, and narrative updates that translate schedule data into clear decisions.
Maintain data integrity across schedules, milestone logs, dependency trackers, risk registers, action logs, and reporting packages.
Analyze schedule, cost, progress, productivity, risk, and delivery data to identify trends, bottlenecks, drift, and improvement opportunities.
Develop or improve reporting workflows that provide timely project health indicators and reduce manual reporting burden.
Identify, quantify, and escalate schedule risks, critical dependencies, delayed decisions, long-lead procurement issues, supplier constraints, and turnover risks before they impact milestones.
Track mitigation plans, recovery actions, owners, due dates, and closure status with strong follow-through discipline.
Support schedule recovery, supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, safety, risk, commissioning, and turnover reviews.
Maintain recovery forecasts, risk registers, dependency trackers, and escalation reports across assigned projects.
Facilitate alignment between project teams and leadership when change impacts schedule, cost, delivery, startup, or turnover readiness.
Track long-lead procurement, supplier readiness, material availability, prefab/OSA/manufacturing readiness, logistics constraints, and site delivery conditions that affect schedule performance.
Support turnover readiness tracking, including turnover package completeness, readiness gates, handoff issues, punch list trends, commissioning milestones, and operations handoff milestones.
Participate in field walks, schedule reviews, recovery meetings, supplier readiness reviews, logistics coordination, commissioning reviews, and turnover readiness checks.
Compare schedule, supply, logistics, construction, commissioning, and turnover assumptions against actual site conditions.
Escalate constraints early and clearly so teams can protect milestones, turnover dates, and startup readiness.
Serve as a scheduling subject matter expert Oracle Primavera Cloud, and related controls or reporting tools.
Establish schedule standards, update cadence, coding structures, reporting expectations, quality checks, and governance practices.
Mentor schedulers, project controls analysts, and project team members on scheduling discipline, logic quality, reporting, and recovery planning.
Document and maintain project controls SOPs, schedule management processes, dashboard standards, and continuous improvement recommendations.
Promote TPM-style execution discipline through clear actions, owners, due dates, escalation paths, accountability, and action closure.