Data Center Development Scheduler & Program Controls Lead

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced RE Development Scheduler to lead coordination and delivery of colocation and leased data center development projects across AWS’s AMER portfolio. This role owns program schedules, milestones, and deliverables, partnering with cross-functional teams to build scalable delivery processes.

You will establish standards, playbooks, and dashboards in P6, ensuring baseline alignment with lease obligations and turnover dates, while balancing speed,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of program or project management experience.
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.
• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams.

Responsibilities

• Review and validate vendor schedules submitted in Primavera P6 for accuracy, completeness, and adherence to project requirements and contractual milestones.
• Perform critical path analysis on 3rd-party schedules to identify scheduling risks, unrealistic durations, and logic errors (open ends, out-of-sequence progress, negative float).
• Conduct schedule quality checks using P6 filters and reports to ensure proper use of activity codes, calendars, constraints, relationships, and resource/cost loading.
• Establish and maintain baseline schedules in P6 for each project in the portfolio, ensuring alignment with lease obligations, delivery milestones, and turnover dates.
• Evaluate schedule change requests and time impact analyses submitted by contractors, providing written assessments of delay claims and their merit.
• Track and document schedule variances between baseline, current, and actual progress, escalating significant deviations to project leadership.
• Develop and maintain portfolio-level dashboards and summary reports using P6 and/or exported data, giving leadership visibility into milestone status across all active projects.
• Produce monthly schedule reports summarizing progress, risks, and recovery strategies for each project.
• Enforce contractual scheduling specifications, including update frequency, submission format, required coding structures, and level-of-detail standards.

Skills

3+ years program management

Data-driven improvements

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced RE Development Scheduler to lead coordination and delivery of colocation and leased data center development projects across AWS’s AMER portfolio. This role owns program schedules, milestones, and deliverables, partnering with cross-functional teams to build scalable delivery processes.

You will establish standards, playbooks, and dashboards in P6, ensuring baseline alignment with lease obligations and turnover dates, while balancing speed,