Senior Schedule Manager - Data Center Construction

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Schedule Manager to support our North America data center portfolio across the full project lifecycle, from pre-lease through construction. You will own schedule oversight, coordinate with the pre-lease and on-site teams, and track milestones, risks, and recoveries to keep projects on plan.

You will work with the pre-lease senior project manager through lease-to-construction handoffs, ensuring continuity of schedule knowledge as ownership changes hands and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, or related field.
• 5–7 years of relevant project management experience.
• Strong organizational and collaborative working skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead schedule oversight for data center sites across the full lifecycle (pre-lease to construction).
• Review and track lease-defined dates, penalties, incentives, and ramp dates.
• Develop and maintain the integrated project schedule and baseline schedules.
• Conduct due diligence schedule reviews during pre-lease and flag unrealistic milestones.
• Coordinate schedule development with Senior Project Manager and handoff to construction.
• Support on-site PM with progress tracking, look-ahead schedules, and recovery plans.
• Incorporate change orders' schedule impacts and benchmark against other sites.
• Maintain portfolio-wide benchmarking data for milestones and labor curves.
• Prepare executive-level schedule reporting for client and leadership reviews.
• Collaborate with Cost Manager to keep schedule, cost, and scope aligned.

Skills

Organizational skills

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, or related field

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Outlook

Procore

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

Who is Turner & Townsend?

All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. It could be the hospital they work in, the railway they travel on every day, the fuel that powers their car or the data centre they depend on at work. For more than 75 years we’ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors.

Our purpose:

Transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world.

The world is changing and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us. We work smarter to face the challenges of the future; bringing the clarity that helps teams realise their full potential across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. It’s how we’ve made the difference for more than 75 years.

Our values:

Love a challenge:We love a challenge and we work hard to make change happen and see things through. We don’t stand still, challenging ourselves and others to do better every day. And we are trusted to do the right thing, raising standards all the time.

Stronger together:We’re stronger together by connecting people in diverse teams, so that we can all collaborate to deliver our best work. We focus on what matters and use our influence to build a better world for everyone.

Bring out the best in everyone:We bring out the best in everyone. We help each other to make the most of our potential, always learning from our experience. We treat each other with care and respect and make time to give everyone a voice

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Schedule Manager to support our key client's North America data center portfolio across the full project lifecycle, from pre-lease through preconstruction and into construction.

As a Senior Schedule Manager, you will own schedule oversight for assigned sites from early pre-lease due diligence through lease execution, preconstruction baseline development, and into construction, where you will support the on-site Project Manager with ongoing schedule management, forecasting, and recovery planning. You will work closely with the pre-lease senior project manager during the due diligence phase, then with the pre-con SPM during the lease-to-construction handoff, and with on-site delivery teams once construction is underway, providing continuity of schedule knowledge across a phase of the project where ownership and teams typically change hands. You will play a critical role in tracking contractual milestone dates, integrating schedules across trades, and surfacing schedule risk before it becomes a delivery issue.

You will embody Turner & Townsend's commitment to excellence while helping deliver best-in-class consulting services to leading developers, investors, and hyperscale clients throughout the United States.

Responsibilities

• Lead schedule oversight for assigned data center sites across the full lifecycle: pre-lease due diligence, lease execution, preconstruction baseline development, and construction, maintaining continuity as projects move between teams.
• Review and track lease-defined contractual dates, including EFA/FA/RFS, associated penalties and grace periods, lease-defined acceleration incentives, and power delivery and ramp dates, escalating schedule risk proactively.
• Develop and maintain the integrated project schedule, including baseline schedule development, critical-path tracking, and labor curve alignment.
• Conduct due diligence schedule reviews during pre-lease, including benchmarking proposed schedules against comparable sister projects and flagging unrealistic or inconsistent milestone assumptions ahead of lease finalization.
• Develop and maintain the baseline schedule during preconstruction, in coordination with the Senior Project Manager, and transition schedule ownership cleanly into construction.
• Support the on-site Project Manager during construction with ongoing schedule management, including progress tracking, forward look-ahead schedules, and recovery plan development when milestones are at risk.
• Review, evaluate, and incorporate schedule impacts from change orders, ensuring they are fully documented and benchmarked against comparable sites.
• Maintain schedule benchmarking data across the portfolio to support consistent evaluation of milestone durations, trade sequencing, and labor curves across sites.
• Prepare executive-level schedule reporting, including milestone status, critical-path risk, variance summaries, and recovery plans, for client and internal leadership review.
• Partner with the Senior Cost Manager and Senior Project Manager to ensure schedule, cost, and scope remain aligned throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support the ongoing development of standardized schedule tracking artifacts and benchmarking tools to improve consistency and visibility across the program.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, or applicable bachelor’s degree and or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5-7 years of relevant project management experience.
• Strong organizational and management skills – the ability to work effectively and collaboratively with the broader team.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Procore, and construction project management tools.

Additional Information

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.*

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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