Planning Lead

Meta; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 202,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a construction professional to join our design, engineering, and construction organization in Hawaii. You will manage early phase due diligence through handoff to preconstruction, and oversee constructability, budgets, and schedules for future data center sites.

You will collaborate with leadership, site development, preconstruction and delivery teams, guiding decisions, risk analysis, and value engineering to optimize the road map and deliver projects on time and within budget.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15+ years in Commercial Management, Preconstruction, Construction Management, Engineering, Scheduling or equivalent.
• Proven ability to lead a team toward a single project outcome.
• Experience with large capital programs, ground-up construction and retrofit projects.
• Proficiency in Preconstruction: site development, diligence, budgeting, scheduling, change management, risk management, negotiation.
• Understanding of scheduling, costs, supply chain, risk analysis, labor markets, cash flows and contract terms.
• Knowledge of scheduling tools (P6 or equivalent).
• Mission Critical/Data Center experience with hyperscale builds.

Responsibilities

• Develop high level path-to-break-ground schedules considering location, site conditions, time of year, labor availability and design type.
• Inform critical path milestones and decision gates for leadership decisions and commitments.
• Contribute to master plan analyses for future sites, including accessibility and logistic planning.
• Coordinate seamless transition from planning to execution teams (Preconstruction, Delivery, Data Center Operations).
• Set project targets (cost and schedule) and coordinate internal and external teams; define deliverables and ensure accountability.
• Provide constructability reviews to influence design for safer, more predictable and cost-effective builds.
• Offer real-time feedback on cost, schedule, constructability to inform pricing and ROI analyses.
• Identify and implement new processes/tools to improve efficiency.
• Develop programmatic frameworks and scenario planning for site kick-off.

Skills

Project coordination

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Construction scheduling

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

15+ years in Commercial/Construction Management or Scheduling

Tools

Primavera P6

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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