Senior Construction Scheduler Jobs

About Vantage Data Centers
Vantage is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equity, respect and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another’s experience.
Vantage Data Centers 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.
Construction Department
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 integrated design and manages these partners to deliver the projects on schedule and budget. Many times, a role like this at other companies is purely oversight. One thing that distinguishes Vantage is that our technical staff is given the responsibility and authority to directly drive the process. When compared to external resources, our internal team can align long-term operational sustainability with value engineering and cost metrics to deliver products aligned with corporate goals. This approach empowers each member of the team to drive high- impact decisions and even more impactful results
Position Overview
Vantage is looking for an ambitious, diligent, hands-on Senior 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.
Essential Job Functions

• Define activities and associated scope, durations, logic, and interface between activities and resource loading of those activities.
• Prepare conceptual and detailed schedules.
• Responsible for developing policies and procedures for scheduling and facilitating user training with our internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop P6 cloud training guidelines and roll out to teams.
• Contribute to the development of planning and sequencing of activities from concept through commissioning.

Duties

• Represent a realistic and feasible planning approach for our two main internal customers - New Site Development & Construction
• Perform Time Impact Analysis and Claims analyzation.
• Utilize Accumen Fuse, or similar schedule diagnostic, to 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.)
• Develop schedule variance analysis.
• Create, review, and analyze critical path schedules independently, in an efficient and comprehensive manner.
• 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.
• Work with vertical peers focusing on continuous improvement to our business processes.
• Communicate effectively through clear and concise means appropriate to the project’s goals (verbal, written, graphically).
• Develop comprehensive plans that communicates the programs, projects, and strategic goals.
• Run schedule risk scenarios based on Monte Carlo and other risk analysis.

Job Requirements

• Ability to understand and accurately interpret construction documents (drawings, specifications, contracts/general conditions) at all levels of design.
• Bilingual
• Travel required is expected to be up to 20% based on business needs.
• Expert knowledge of Primavera Scheduling Software (P6, latest Version) and MS Project.
• Extensive experience using ProCore & PowerBI strongly preferred.
• Data Center experience is strongly preferred, but not required.
• Understand the Critical Path Method of scheduling theoretically and as it applies to projects.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management, Quantity Estimating, Accounting or relevant functional discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Extensive experience using Microsoft Office software tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Word.
• 10 years related work experience

We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance. We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other’s strengths and respecting each other’s weaknesses. We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do. Our hard an efficient work is rewarded with an above market total compensation package. We offer a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations.
Safety and security always matter. During COVID, all positions that can work remotely have been, and appropriate steps have been taken to ensure the safety of employees in any position essential to be on site. Regardless of where you are working, technology to work effectively is provided on or in advance of your first day of employment.
Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds value to the company and our community.
Don't meet all the requirements? Please still apply if you think you are the right person for the position. We are always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.
Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer