Lead Scheduler - Data Center
- Full-time
- Department: Real estate
Company Description
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
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Job Description
The Schedulers role is to coordinate and lead the project planning and scheduling activities for DCD projects. This includes performing coordination and scheduling compliance work in collaboration with GC in the field, ensuring there is consistency and alignment with corporate master scheduling discipline.
- Facilitate the development of a detailed project schedule along with project team and contractor input.
- Develop and improve status collection process to ensure quality progress reporting.
- Proactively analyse project schedules including comparing cost/resource curves to actuals, tracking float consumption, and change order impact analysis to ensure contractor is compliant with scheduling specification.
- Validate schedule updates along with a narrative for submission to the project team and client stakeholders.
- Identify and mitigate threats to the project’s schedule goals and initiate corrective actions through field staff as necessary.
- Interface with site management regarding critical schedule activities, change, impacts to schedule, change orders, project progress, and claims analysis.
- Provide final review of schedules for estimating as requested.
- Facilitate the team in revising logic for schedule compression, forensic analysis to identify cause and effect of delay and reporting.
- Analyse resource loading and adjust the schedule or initiate corrective action as appropriate.
- Participate in the scheduling portion of Project Reviews, as required.
- Provide information as needed on the content, modification, or presentation of project schedule.
- Work with Master scheduling to assess impact(s) of design/construction changes and schedule slippages. Work with master scheduling and the established system to show the hierarchy of plans and schedules and keep the project team fully informed of information.
- Effectively communicate impact analysis for potential delays and changes to project team.
- Manage change orders, requests for information and updates to project scheduling specific documents.
- Understand all contract requirements relating to the project schedule and be the voice for identifying when scope / execution is not aligned to contract terms.
- Interpret project team needs; assesses requirements and identifies solutions to non-standard requests with regards to project schedule
Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive responsibility in development of complex capital projects
- Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent in technical field
- Prior experience in datacenter construction
- Experience managing multiple large multi-faceted projects
- Expert knowledge of MS Project / any other scheduling software required (P6)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent client relationship skills
- Ability to independently manage deadlines and support staff
- Ability to influence cross-discipline teams
- Construction knowledge
Additional Information
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
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