Senior Manager Construction Scheduling

Senior Manager, Construction Scheduling

Lead the regional construction scheduling function for NTT Global Data Centers, ensuring the development, implementation, and performance of a comprehensive scheduling program across the entire portfolio of data center projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and manage a team of internal and contracted schedulers, setting clear performance goals and aligning individual objectives with regional and global priorities.
• Implement and enforce a unified scheduling program for all data center projects, including establishing internal processes, contractual scheduling requirements for General Contractors, milestone definitions, duration benchmarks, and consistent KPIs.
• Develop and maintain program level and project level CPM schedules, provide governance and oversight of contractual scheduling requirements, and coach project teams on compliance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Produce high level program and project timelines to support decision making, scenario analysis and executive level planning.
• Define and track meaningful scheduling KPIs that reflect project progress and enable clear visibility into baseline performance.
• Create management level reports that showcase schedule performance across the portfolio.
• Partner with the Construction Team to identify and model schedule optimization opportunities, alternative sequencing, phasing and delivery strategies for speed to market initiatives.
• Enforce the schedule change management process, ensuring impact analysis, documentation, approval, mitigation and communication of schedule risks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Business, Engineering or a related field.
• Several years of experience in construction scheduling, including baseline schedule development, critical path and variance analysis, earned value management (EVM) and forensic schedule analysis.
• Demonstrated people management experience with the ability to lead, develop and manage performance for internal staff and subcontracted resources.
• Experience with data center or high tech construction projects.
• Expertise in Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling for complex construction projects, including logic driven schedule development, critical path and float analysis, risk assessment and compliance with contractual specifications.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project (MSP) scheduling software.
• Strong ability to read and interpret construction drawings and specifications to evaluate contractor schedules.
• Excellent analytical, creative thinking, written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience reviewing Time Impact Analyses (TIAs) and recovery schedules to assess impacts and mitigation strategies.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% of the time.