Onsite Data Center Scheduler | Primavera P6 Expert (Spartanburg)

Jacobs; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan

Stock purchase plan

Unlimited PPTO

Job summary

Jacobs seeks an experienced Project Scheduler to join the Project Controls team for large-scale data center projects. This on-site role in Spartanburg, SC focuses on developing and maintaining integrated project schedules across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and handover.

You will use Primavera P6 and Oracle Primavera Cloud to drive schedule insights, manage risks, and coordinate with clients and multidisciplinary teams to ensure timely completion and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of project scheduling experience supporting mission-critical facilities, data centers, advanced technology facilities, or large-scale industrial projects.
• Data center project experience strongly preferred.
• Advanced proficiency with Primavera P6.
• Strong understanding of EPC/EPCM project execution.
• Experience developing and maintaining resource-loaded and cost-loaded schedules.
• Strong understanding of mechanical completion, systems turnover, commissioning, startup, and operational readiness processes.
• Experience performing critical path analysis and schedule risk assessments.
• Ability to facilitate planning workshops and drive alignment across multiple stakeholders.
• Proven ability to effectively communicate schedule status, risks, and recommendations to project teams and clients.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and analyze integrated project schedules using Primavera P6 and Oracle Primavera Cloud.
• Work closely with commissioning managers and startup teams to develop commissioning execution schedules and turnover plans.
• Analyze schedule impacts resulting from scope, design, procurement, construction, or commissioning changes.
• Facilitate schedule development, planning, and progress review meetings with project stakeholders.
• Establish project work breakdown structures (WBS), coding structures, and schedule governance processes.
• Review and validate schedule logic, durations, constraints, calendars, and critical path activities.
• Perform progress updates, forecasting, variance analysis, and schedule health assessments.
• Support Integrated Action Planning (IAP) sessions, pull-planning workshops, and execution planning activities.
• Generate schedule reports, dashboards, and management presentations for project leadership and clients.
• Participate in client meetings and planning sessions to communicate schedule performance, risks, and recovery strategies.

Skills

Project scheduling

Risk analysis

Stakeholder communication

Team facilitation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/ Construction Mgmt or related

Tools

Primavera P6

Primavera Cloud

Acumen Fuse

Power BI

Job description

Jacobs seeks an experienced Project Scheduler to join the Project Controls team for large-scale data center projects. This on-site role in Spartanburg, SC focuses on developing and maintaining integrated project schedules across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and handover.

You will use Primavera P6 and Oracle Primavera Cloud to drive schedule insights, manage risks, and coordinate with clients and multidisciplinary teams to ensure timely completion and