Scheduling Manager - (Owner's Representative) - Data Center Construction

KALCON • Houston, TX

3h • $150,000 - $225,000

About The Position

The Scheduling Manager, acting as an Owner's Representative, will join the Project Controls team to provide professional scheduling capabilities for Data Center Construction projects. This role is crucial in enabling the client's ability to profoundly affect and accelerate speed to market. The position involves developing policies and procedures for scheduling, facilitating user training, and contributing to the planning and sequencing of activities from concept through commissioning. Responsibilities include defining activities, associated scope, durations, logic, interfaces, and resource loading, as well as reviewing and analyzing critical path schedules, developing comprehensive plans, monitoring performance data, investigating constraints, performing Time Impact Analysis, and running schedule risk scenarios.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or relevant functional discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3-10+ years related work experience.
• Understand the Critical Path Method of scheduling theoretically and as it applies to projects.
• Ability to understand and accurately interpret construction documents (drawings, specifications, contracts/general conditions) at all levels of design.
• Expert knowledge of Primavera Scheduling Software (P6, latest Version) and MS Project.
• Extensive experience using Microsoft Office software tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Word.

Nice To Haves

• Data center experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Independently audit general contractor (GC) Primavera P6 schedules (XER files) for accuracy and conformance to client standards and project requirements.
• Help to establish and maintain a national, repeatable scheduling framework—including templates, coding structures, and reporting formats.
• Track and report critical milestones, enabling client leadership to make timely, data‑driven decisions.
• Perform Baseline & Progress Audits: Monthly at minimum; Focused Audits: Weekly, upon GC update receipt or at client request.
• Track OFCI equipment delivery dates and highlight problem areas, with the afore mentioned superintendent and subcontractor buy-in to solutions.
• Run DCMA Checks, compare against contractual baseline & previous period, review activities that are running in parallel, review multiple float paths, identify variance drivers & risks, and recommend corrective actions.
• Standardize L1 and L2 Milestones to be able to compare different construction projects.
• Validate that constraints are assigned only to required L1 and L2 identifies milestones and ensure that the critical path is logical.
• Translate, create and update schedule sequences to PDF drawings for visual representation.
• Develop policies and procedures for scheduling and facilitating user training with our internal and external stakeholders.
• 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.
• Review and analyze critical path schedules, in an efficient and comprehensive manner.
• Develop comprehensive plans that communicates the programs, projects, and strategic goals.
• Monitor schedule performance data, develop complex data analysis, and issue schedule reports required by management and project procedures.
• Investigate and incorporate project constraints in planning effort.
• Perform Time Impact Analysis and Claims analyzation.
• Develop schedule variance analysis.
• Run schedule risk scenarios based on Monte Carlo and other risk analysis.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Long Term Disability
• 401(k) retirement plan with 4% KALCON match when an employee contributes at least 5%
• 15 days of paid time off
• 8 paid national holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior