Director, Hyperscale Preconstruction Scheduling

Vantage Data Centers; Sterling (VA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Vantage Data Centers is seeking a Director of Preconstruction Scheduling to develop and govern scheduling frameworks for hyperscale and AI-ready data center projects. The role combines strategy translation with hands-on process design to enable fast, cost-conscious execution across a growing portfolio.

You will lead cross-functional teams, refine templates, and align schedules with design, procurement, and construction workflows, driving discipline and risk-aware decision making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Project Controls, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in scheduling, project controls, or preconstruction for large-scale or hyperscale developments.
• Deep expertise in CPM scheduling, design and preconstruction workflows, power-related scheduling considerations, labor productivity, and market dynamics.
• Experience evaluating contractor capability, schedule inputs, productivity assumptions, staffing plans, and readiness to support concurrent large-scale projects.
• Strong understanding of schedule risk analysis, forecasting, scenario planning, and alignment between schedule, cost, and project controls governance.
• Proficiency with enterprise scheduling tools, including Primavera P6 or similar platforms.
• Travel required is expected to be up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain standardized preconstruction scheduling templates, logic, and governance for hyperscale and AI-ready developments.
• Translate VP-level preconstruction strategy into actionable scheduling workflows that support rapid, multi-phase campus delivery, including modularization, prefabrication, and accelerated deployment.
• Build and maintain early-stage schedules for site validation, due diligence, and market feasibility assessments, incorporating labor market intelligence, contractor availability, permitting timelines, and regional construction dynamics.
• Support site selection by identifying schedule risks tied to workforce depth, permitting requirements, market constraints, and contractor capacity.
• Develop and manage design schedules from concept through IFC, ensuring alignment with construction sequencing, execution strategy, constructability, phasing, and logistics considerations.
• Coordinate with design partners, engineers, and internal stakeholders to ensure schedule realism and early identification of bottlenecks.
• Build schedules that support contractor onboarding, bid cycles, GMP development, and early procurement planning.
• Validate contractor schedule inputs, productivity assumptions, staffing plans, readiness, and capacity to meet schedule demands across multiple concurrent projects.
• Partner with project controls to ensure preconstruction schedules align with cost baselines, forecasting models, governance frameworks, and execution tracking to minimize variance.
• Support development of schedule risk analyses and scenario planning to improve decision-making and execution certainty.
• Deliver fully coordinated preconstruction schedules to construction teams, ensuring clarity of scope, sequencing, critical path, procurement milestones, and mobilization plans.
• Maintain continuity with construction teams to ensure preconstruction assumptions carry through into execution.
• Serve as the scheduling liaison across development, design, power, project controls, and construction to ensure stakeholders operate from a unified schedule baseline and understand key milestones and dependencies.
• Drive alignment around execution realism, schedule discipline, and repeatable scheduling methodologies.
• Advance scheduling methodologies that support modularization, prefabrication, labor-efficient delivery, stronger handoffs between preconstruction and project controls, and improved governance.
• Implement lessons learned from execution teams to refine future schedules, templates, and scheduling standards.
• Additional duties as assigned by Management.

Skills

CPM scheduling

Project controls

Leadership

Labor market intel

Travel 25%

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Vantage Data Centers is seeking a Director of Preconstruction Scheduling to develop and govern scheduling frameworks for hyperscale and AI-ready data center projects. The role combines strategy translation with hands-on process design to enable fast, cost-conscious execution across a growing portfolio.

You will lead cross-functional teams, refine templates, and align schedules with design, procurement, and construction workflows, driving discipline and risk-aware decision making.