Area Scheduling Lead

Google Inc.; Midlothian (TX); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Inc. is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead complex, cross-disciplinary data center projects, driving schedules, risks, and stakeholder communications.

You will manage end-to-end program lifecycles, coordinate with internal customers and engineers, and improve processes to deliver on-time, on-budget data center initiatives across North America.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering projects.
• Proven ability to manage schedules and identify risks.
• Strong communication with executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-organizational programs in data center construction.
• Establish and optimize scheduling, risk, and change management processes.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver programs on time and on budget.
• Provide insights to executives and drive continuous improvement of program controls.

Skills

Data center construction

Cost management

Project controls

Scheduling

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Industrial Engineering, related field or equivalent

Job description

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Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Industrial Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in data center construction, leading cost management, project controls or cost estimation.
• 5 years of experience working with construction programs/projects.
• Experience with cost management, cost planning and estimation, negotiation, project procurement.

Preferred qualifications:

• 7 years of experience in data center construction.

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

In this role, you will be responsible for driving strategic, complex, cross-organizational programs, establishing influence, and optimizing processes to achieve significant business impact. Implementing established program controls approach that is flexible, effective, efficient, and responsive to stakeholders as well as executive leadership reporting needs.
You will be a scheduled subject matter expert on data center construction in greenfield, brownfield, co-location and retrofit facilities (schedule, risk and change management). You will be working closely with the cross-functional team members, overseeing and implementing planning/scheduling, progressing methods/tools to establish integrated project schedule planning as we analyze new technology to deploy and build new data centers. You will lead efforts to improve operational efficiency, cycle times, reliability, predictability, and on-time delivery.

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

In this role, you will be responsible for driving strategic, complex, cross-organizational programs, establishing influence, and optimizing processes to achieve significant business impact. Implementing established program controls approach that is flexible, effective, efficient, and responsive to stakeholders as well as executive leadership reporting needs.
You will be a scheduled subject matter expert on data center construction in greenfield, brownfield, co-location and retrofit facilities (schedule, risk and change management). You will be working closely with the cross-functional team members, overseeing and implementing planning/scheduling, progressing methods/tools to establish integrated project schedule planning as we analyze new technology to deploy and build new data centers. You will lead efforts to improve operational efficiency, cycle times, reliability, predictability, and on-time delivery.

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Lead the critical alignment of schedules, acceleration timeline efforts and capital expenditure funding timelines within the subregion, directly supporting multi-development strategies and the execution of campus-wide projects across the program.
• Provide robust schedule oversight across all projects in the sub region, meticulously managing schedule milestones and timelines in close collaboration with cross-functional partner teams.
• Serve as the primary strategic interface and point of contact for project-level stakeholders regarding schedule controls, funding matters, and overall program health.
• Cultivate relationships with stakeholders, tailoring communications (e.g., through metrics, status reports, decision logs) to drive understanding and inform key decisions.
• Identify process breakdowns and lead the definition and implementation of standardized processes, workflows, and best practices for schedule controls to enhance efficiency, consistency, and scalability across the North America/South America Region.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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