Strategic Planning Lead - Data Center Construction

Meta; Carson City (NV); 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. You will lead early-phase activities from due diligence to handoff, coordinating with leadership and delivery teams to shape project scope, timelines and constructability.

You will drive master plan analyses, evaluate accessibility and logistics, and translate requirements into actionable preconstruction decisions, with emphasis on cost, schedule, and risk mitigation. ~

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 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
• Demonstrated communication and coordination skills to lead a team towards a single project outcome
• Familiar with large capital programs, ground-up construction and greenfield site development as well as retrofit construction
• Proficiency in all aspects of Preconstruction: Site Development, Diligence Review, Budget Development, Scheduling, Change Management, Risk Management, Negotiation, etc
• 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
• Knowledge in Scheduling tool working experience (P6 or equivalent), with full understanding of construction interdependencies and critical path analysis
• Mission Critical/ Data Center experience is required in addition to hyperscale builds

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Understand and inform the critical path schedule from “tip to tail” of land development through commissioning and handover complete.
• 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
• 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)
• 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).
• Understand and influence the big picture, goals and values of the New Product types. Close collaboration with the Engineering Product Development and Integration to differentiate must haves from nice to haves and provide detailed constructability reviews
• Leverage cost, schedule and constructability expertise to influence engineering strategy by providing real time feedback on cost, schedule and constructibility
• Anticipate the need of new process and tooling required as the business needs change. Identify and support initiatives to meet the company goals
• Deep knowledge of development and construction scheduling to build programmatic frameworks and critical path analysis
• Build strong relationships and consistent communications with the leads of the multiple XFN teams and ICs
• Thrive in a highly collaborative environment by leveraging core competencies to contribute to collective success
• Travel required: Up to 25% (20% Domestic and 5% International)

Skills

Construction scheduling

Critical path analysis

Cost and schedule management

Stakeholder coordination

New region/product development

Travel management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a directly related field

Bachelor’s degree in construction management or equivalent with 15+ years experience

Tools

Primavera P6

Excel

Job description

Meta is seeking a construction professional to join our design, engineering, and construction organization. You will lead early-phase activities from due diligence to handoff, coordinating with leadership and delivery teams to shape project scope, timelines and constructability.

You will drive master plan analyses, evaluate accessibility and logistics, and translate requirements into actionable preconstruction decisions, with emphasis on cost, schedule, and risk mitigation. ~