Construction Scheduler, NA

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About Vantage Data Centers Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world's well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands. Construction Department The Construction team is responsible for the management of delivering data centers from conception through commissioning, working with Sales, Operations, New Site Development, and Innovation and Engineering along the way. Construction also works closely with partner contractors to come up with a vertically coordinated design and leads these partners to deliver the projects on schedule and budget. Many times, a role like this at other companies is purely oversight. One thing that distinguishes Vantage is that our technical staff is given the responsibility and authority to directly drive the process. When compared to external resources, our internal team can align long-term operational sustainability with value engineering and cost metrics to deliver products aligned with company goals. This approach empowers each member of the team to drive high- impact decisions and even more impactful results. Position Overview T h is role is based on site in Goodyear, AZ. Vantage is looking for an ambitious, diligent, hands-on Construction Scheduler to drive overall project schedule durations at a programmatic level to be used across the company portfolio. You will join the Project Controls team in providing professional scheduling capabilities and enable Vantage's ability to profoundly affect and accelerate speed to market. You will be responsible for creating schedules at every stage of the project lifecycle and be expected to identify ways to re-sequence work to shorten overall project durations Essential Job Functions Responsible for developing policies and procedures for scheduling and facilitating user training with our internal and external stakeholders Prepare conceptual and detailed schedules Contribute to the development of planning and sequencing of activities from concept through commissioning Define activities and associated scope, durations, logic, and interface between activities and resource loading of those activities Develop P6 training guidelines and roll out to teams Job Duties Create, review, and analyze critical path schedules independently, in an efficient and comprehensive manner Develop comprehensive plans that communicates the programs, projects, and strategic goals Represent a realistic and feasible planning approach for our main internal customer - Construction Communicate effectively through clear and concise means appropriate to the project's goals (verbal, written, graphically). Monitor schedule performance data, develop complex data analysis, and issue schedule reports required by management and project procedures. Understand principles of cost estimating and productivity in establishing schedule parameters (duration, cost and resource loading, etc.) Investigate and incorporate project constraints in planning effort. Perform Time Impact Analysis and Claims analyzation. Utilize Acumen Fuse, or similar schedule diagnostic, to monitor schedule performance data, develop complex data analysis, and issue schedule reports required by management and project procedures. Develop schedule variance analysis. Work with vertical peers focusing on continuous improvement to our business processes. Run schedule risk scenarios based on Monte Carlo and other risk analysis. Job Requirements Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Estimating, or relevant functional discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience 3-5 years related work experience Data Center experience is strongly preferred, but not required. Understand the Critical Path Method of scheduling theoretically and as it applies to projects. Ability to understand construction documents (drawings, specifications, contracts/general conditions) at all levels of design. Expert knowledge of Primavera Scheduling Software (P6, latest Version) Moderate experience using Procore & Power BI strongly preferred. Extensive experience using Microsoft Office software tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Word. Travel required is expected to be 10-20% based on business needs. Physical Demands and Special Requirements The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel ob