Planning Lead

Meta; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 202,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a construction professional to lead early phase project scheduling and constructability across site development through handoff to preconstruction teams. You will oversee master planning, critical path decisions, and integration with DEC Delivery, Data Center Operations, and site leadership.

The role requires deep knowledge of land development, scheduling tools (P6), and experience with large capital programs, including hyperscale data centers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a directly related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in construction management or equivalent technical degree with 15 years direct professional experience in Commercial Management, Preconstruction, Construction Management, Engineering, Scheduling or equivalent.
• Demonstrated communication and coordination skills to lead a team toward a single project outcome.
• Familiar with large capital programs, ground-up construction and greenfield site development as well as retrofit construction.
• Proficiency in Preconstruction: Site Development, Diligence Review, Budget Development, Scheduling, Change Management, Risk Management, Negotiation, etc.
• Understanding of construction schedules, costs, supply chain analysis, risk analysis, labor markets, project cash flows and contract terms.
• Knowledge of scheduling tools (P6 or equivalent) with understanding of interdependencies and critical path.
• Mission Critical/Data Center experience required with hyperscale builds.

Responsibilities

• Develop high level schedules including critical milestones and last responsible moment decisions.
• Inform the critical path schedule from land development through commissioning and handover.
• Contribute to master plan analysis for future sites, addressing logistics, geotechnical concerns, and local requirements.
• Enable seamless transition from planning to execution across DEC teams and partners.
• Set project targets for cost and schedule; coordinate internal and external teams and deliverables.
• Provide constructability insights to influence design for safety, cost effectiveness, and predictability.
• Inform pricing targets, value engineering, and financial analyses to guide leadership decisions.
• Identify needs for new processes/tools as business needs evolve.
• Develop programmatic frameworks for scheduling and scenario planning.
• Foster strong cross-functional relationships and transparent communication across regions.

Skills

Schedule optimization

Critical path

Preconstruction

Cost & risk analysis

Construction scheduling

AI in construction

Cross-functional leadership

Constructability reviews

Stakeholder management

Commercial negotiations

Cost modelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Construction management degree or technical degree + 15 years experience

PE license or PM/Scheduling cert

Tools

Primavera P6

P6

Cost modelling software

Job description

Summary:

Meta is seeking a construction professional to join our design, engineering, and construction organization. You will collaborate closely with our leadership, site development, preconstruction and delivery teams to manage the early phase of projects in due diligence through handoff to preconstruction teams. Additionally, you will manage new product design commercial implications and constructability. This individual will have demonstrated experience with product design, procurement, budgets, scheduling, and constructability.

Required Skills:

1. Build high level “Path to Break Ground Schedules”, factoring the location, the site conditions, time of the year, labor availability, type of design implemented, etc. Path to Break Ground schedule will include identification of critical decision milestones and identify “last responsible moment” for critical path decisions and commitments required to hold break ground, foundation start and hand over dates. Early financial commitments will be flagged and potential sunk cost risk identified

2. The candidate should have deep knowledge of construction scheduling and expertise to understand and inform the critical path schedule from “tip to tail” of land development through commissioning and handover complete. Ability to highlight key milestones and decision gates for leadership decisions as well as key commitments and risks highlighted during the development process

3. Contribute to the delivery of the master plan analysis for future sites, including accessibility, logistic plan, off site improvements, geotechnical analysis, local requirements, neighbor risk mitigation, market conditions, labor availability, etc

4. Provide a clean transition and embedment of new region and new product development from DEC Planning to DEC Execution Teams (Preconstruction, Delivery, Data Center Operations)

5. Set the targets for each project (Cost and schedule) and communicate to the stakeholders. Coordinate multiple internal XFN teams (energy, site selection, product design, etc) and external teams (GCs, Integrators, TCs). Define the deliverables needed and the quality expected. Keep teams accountable to drive successful implementation of the road map established

6. Understand and influence the big picture, goals and values of the New Product types. Close collaboration with the Engineering Product Development and Integration in order to differentiate between “must haves” and “nice to haves” and ability to push back and challenge internal partners to accomplish the agreed upon goal. Provide detailed constructability reviews in multiple stages of the project to influence the design to build safer, more predictably, efficiently and cost effectively

7. Leverage cost, schedule and constructability expertise to influence engineering strategy by providing “real time” feedback on cost, schedule and constructibility to inform target pricing, develop value engineering, inform trade-off evaluations and financial TCO/NPV analysis, ROI analysis, and other models that will be used to inform leadership decision making

8. Anticipate the need of new process and tooling required as the business needs change. Identify and support initiatives to meet the company goals and find opportunities to improve efficiencies

9. Deep knowledge of development and construction scheduling to build programmatic frameworks and critical path analysis to inform “what if” scenario planning and gain a high confidence level for project delivery at the time of site specific design kick off

10. Build strong relationships and consistent communications with the leads of the multiple XFN teams and ICs

11. Thrive in a highly collaborative environment by leveraging core competencies to meaningfully contribute to collective success of your team and the broader cross functional teams essential to successful new region and new product development

12. Travel required: Up to 25% (20% Domestic and 5% International)

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience

2. Bachelor’s degree in construction management, or equivalent technical degree and/or minimum of fifteen (15) years direct professional experience in Commercial Management, Preconstruction, Construction Management, Engineering, Scheduling or equivalent

3. Demonstrated communication and coordination skills to lead a team towards a single project outcome

4. Familiar with large capital programs, ground-up construction and greenfield site development as well as retrofit construction

5. Proficiency in all aspects of Preconstruction: Site Development, Diligence Review, Budget Development, Scheduling, Change Management, Risk Management, Negotiation, etc

6. Demonstrated understanding and perspective of construction schedules, costs, supply chain analysis, risk analysis, labor markets, project cash flows and commercial contract terms and contract delivery methods

7. Knowledge in Scheduling tool working experience (P6 or equivalent), with full understanding of construction interdependencies and critical path analysis

8. Mission Critical/ Data Center experience is required in addition to hyperscale builds

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

2. Professional Engineers license in mechanical, electrical or civil engineering or an advanced degree, and/or certification in Project Management or Scheduling

3. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

4. Knowledge in scheduling tool working experience (P6 or equivalent), with a full understanding of construction interdependencies and critical path analysis

5. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

Public Compensation:

$202,000/year to $273,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry:

Internet

Equal Opportunity:

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