Senior Data Center Planner

STACK Infrastructure•Denver, CO

67d•Onsite

About The Position

STACK Infrastructure (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience. STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK. The Senior Data Center Planner will be responsible for creating, customizing, and rolling out standardized Owner Schedules on all active STACK BOD/turnkey projects across the portfolio. This role provides a high-level schedule overview that tracks key timelines, long lead items, and critical milestones for STACK, without duplicating efforts with the General Contractor (GC). A key aspect of the role involves conducting early-stage schedule sanity-checks to ensure proposed customer durations are realistic and achievable, often under time-sensitive conditions. The planner will also create schedules that clearly communicate project health, risks, and float to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), requiring a strong eye for graphical presentation and organization. Identifying and reporting risks early, and collaborating with project teams to develop mitigation and recovery strategies, are essential functions. The role includes reviewing and improving the existing Owner Schedule Template, developing multiple versions for different project types, and providing ongoing support and training to project teams to maintain schedule accuracy. Additionally, the planner will manage an Owner Schedule database/repository in SharePoint, assist project teams in analyzing GC schedules, develop a Master Portfolio Schedule, collaborate on conceptual schedules, and help develop a Construction Schedule Specification for GCs. Ad hoc schedule analyses and scenario planning will also be required.

Requirements

Data Center scheduling experience is required
Maintain strong working relationships with team leaders across the organization, including Finance, IT, HR, Strategy, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Client Success and Operations.
Represent the Construction Team when needed and work collaboratively to resolve issues.
Work proactively and effectively with at times minimal supervision to address issues, identify and solve problems, etc.
Emphasis on continuous development and improvement of the program, templates, processes, training and tools.
Must be eligible to work in the United States
Must pass comprehensive background and drug screening
Strong communicator, persuasive and clear, blending analytics with experience in decision-making.
Ability to juggle multiple priorities while balancing urgent requests with shifting timelines and deliverables.
Team builder, understanding and developing the strengths of resources while formulating long-term plans for team growth and success.
Naturally curious and driven toward continual improvement.

Nice To Haves

The intent is NOT to reinvent the wheel or duplicate efforts with the GC, but rather to provide a high-level schedule overview that tracks the key timelines, long lead items, and milestones that are most critical to STACK.
These determinations are often highly time sensitive.
As such, a keen eye for graphical presentation, organization and structure will be critical.
It is not intended that you will complete these schedule updates yourself but rather provide support, training and guidance to the teams as needed.
Current Master Portfolio Schedule file is Excel-based.

Responsibilities

Create, customize, and roll out standardized Owner Schedules on all active STACK BOD/turnkey projects across the portfolio.
Provide a high-level schedule overview that tracks key timelines, long lead items, and milestones critical to STACK.
Conduct early-stage schedule sanity-checks to ensure proposed customer durations are realistic and achievable.
Create schedules that clearly and succinctly communicate schedule concepts, such as overall project health, pending risks, and remaining float, to the SLT.
Identify problems and risks early, report such risks to Leadership, and work with project teams to develop and implement mitigation and recovery strategies.
Review the existing Owner Schedule Template, solicit input from Construction Team leaders, and develop an updated and improved Owner Schedule Template.
Create, manage, and maintain four other versions of the Owner Schedule Template for different project configurations.
Work with specific project teams to select the appropriate template and customize it for their project, cross-referencing with the GC schedule.
Provide ongoing support to project teams to keep their Owner’s Schedules current and accurate, including tracking progress, identifying schedule risks, and developing mitigation plans.
Create and manage an Owner Schedule database/repository in SharePoint, including the creation, collection, tracking, and dissemination of schedule KPIs and rules of thumb.
Assist STACK project teams in the review and analysis of preliminary and in-progress GC project schedules.
Develop, maintain, and provide regular reporting on a Master Portfolio Schedule for the program.
Work with the Development Team Preconstruction Lead on conceptual/preliminary project schedules.
Work with Construction Leadership to develop a Construction Schedule Spec for bidding GCs.
Provide ad hoc mini-schedules, fragnets, hypotheticals, and scenario analyses as required.