Senior CPM Scheduler – Data Center & Capital Projects

Accenture; United States; Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Infrastructure & Capital Projects is seeking an experienced planning and scheduling professional to lead integrated CPM-based planning for large-scale data center programs.

You will develop detailed schedules, track milestones, and drive risk mitigation with client teams, delivery partners, and contractors. Strong communication and a track record of coordinating complex programs are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of expert-level planning and scheduling 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 data center construction.
• 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 governance, and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to self-direct, solve problems, and operate effectively in a fast-paced project environment.
• Strong executive communication skills, including concise leadership-ready summaries.
• Experience coordinating stakeholders across project teams, contractors, consultants, and client organizations.

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 dashboards, governance materials, and leadership-ready reporting.
• 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

Primavera P6

MS Project

CPM scheduling

schedule risk analysis

cost risk management

stakeholder coordination

executive communication

data center experience

Tools

Primavera Analytics

Power BI

Job description

Accenture Infrastructure & Capital Projects is seeking an experienced planning and scheduling professional to lead integrated CPM-based planning for large-scale data center programs.

You will develop detailed schedules, track milestones, and drive risk mitigation with client teams, delivery partners, and contractors. Strong communication and a track record of coordinating complex programs are essential for success.