Lead Data Center Scheduler — CPM & Primavera

Infrastructureandcapitalprojects; United States; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Competitive benefits package

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Accenture Infrastructure & Capital Projects in the United States is seeking a senior scheduling lead to manage integrated planning for large-scale data center construction programs. You will apply CPM techniques using Primavera P6 and MS Project to create and maintain detailed schedules, tracking milestones and dependencies.

Work with client teams and delivery partners to align planning outputs with execution needs, deliver executive dashboards, and support governance across cost, risk, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of expert-level planning and scheduling experience using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Experience supporting design and construction project management for medium-to-large capital programs.
• Background planning capital projects in the $500M to $2B+ range, preferably within data center construction or similar process-intensive industries.
• Strong knowledge of CPM scheduling, schedule health analysis, schedule risk analysis, and schedule recovery planning.
• Ability to analyze EPC plans and schedules, identify trends, assess impacts, and clearly communicate mitigation strategies.
• Experience supporting integrated project controls functions, including cost, risk, change management, governance, and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to self-direct, solve problems, and operate effectively in a fast-paced project environment.
• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to present detailed schedule data in concise leadership-ready summaries.

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated planning and scheduling support for large-scale data center construction projects.
• Develop, maintain, and improve detailed schedules, milestone tracking, dependencies, resource assumptions, and schedule reporting outputs.
• Apply CPM scheduling techniques to assess schedule logic, identify trends, communicate risks, and recommend mitigation and recovery strategies.
• Partner with client teams, project stakeholders, delivery partners, contractors, and consultants to align planning outputs with project execution needs.
• Manage multiple project schedules simultaneously, maintaining accuracy, consistency, and timely reporting.
• Coordinate schedule inputs across project controls, cost management, risk management, change management, and project delivery teams.
• Evaluate schedule performance, identify delivery gaps, dependencies, and emerging issues, and drive corrective actions.
• Prepare clear schedule updates, executive-level dashboards, governance materials, and leadership-ready reporting tailored to the audience.
• Support integrated project controls activities by linking schedule performance to cost, risk, and change impacts.
• Facilitate planning workshops, schedule reviews, and stakeholder alignment sessions to drive project success.
• Elevate schedule risks, critical path concerns, and execution blockers while driving accountable resolution.

Skills

Planning & Scheduling

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

CPM scheduling

Schedule risk analysis

Cost/risk/change governance

Executive communication

Stakeholder coordination

Tools

Power BI

Primavera Analytics

Job description

Accenture Infrastructure & Capital Projects in the United States is seeking a senior scheduling lead to manage integrated planning for large-scale data center construction programs. You will apply CPM techniques using Primavera P6 and MS Project to create and maintain detailed schedules, tracking milestones and dependencies.

Work with client teams and delivery partners to align planning outputs with execution needs, deliver executive dashboards, and support governance across cost, risk, and