Senior Scheduler & Planner — Data Center Programs

Turner & Townsend; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking experienced schedulers/planners to support complex data center construction programs across regional subregions. Senior planning professionals with Primavera P6 and MS Project expertise are required to communicate schedule risks and recovery options to project teams and executives.

Candidates must be able to travel and work onsite as needed in the US; roles involve leading integrated planning, CPM scheduling, and coordinating with clients, delivery partners, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of expert-level planning and scheduling with Primavera P6 and MS Project
• Experience supporting design and construction PM for large capital programs
• Background planning capital projects in the $500M to $2B+ range, data center preferred
• Strong CPM scheduling, schedule health analysis, and risk identification
• Ability to analyze EPC plans, identify trends, and communicate mitigation strategies
• Self-directed, problem solver in a fast-paced project environment
• Strong executive communication for leadership-ready summaries

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated planning and scheduling for large-scale data center projects
• Develop, maintain, and improve detailed schedules, milestone tracking, dependencies, and schedule reporting outputs
• Apply critical path method scheduling to assess schedule logic, identify trends, and communicate risks, impacts, mitigations, and recovery options
• Partner with client teams, project stakeholders, delivery partners, and contractors to align planning outputs with project execution needs
• Manage multiple project schedules simultaneously while maintaining accuracy, consistency, and timely reporting
• Prepare clear schedule updates for project leadership and senior stakeholders, adjusting level of detail based on the audience
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable

Skills

Project scheduling

CPM scheduling

Executive communication

Self-direction

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking experienced schedulers/planners to support complex data center construction programs across regional subregions. Senior planning professionals with Primavera P6 and MS Project expertise are required to communicate schedule risks and recovery options to project teams and executives.

Candidates must be able to travel and work onsite as needed in the US; roles involve leading integrated planning, CPM scheduling, and coordinating with clients, delivery partners, and