Senior Scheduling Construction Manager

Position Title: Senior Scheduling Construction Manager – Level V

Position Location: Location varies by assignment. 75–100% travel across the U.S. unless assigned to an extended project. Must be located near a major US airport.

Job Summary

The Senior Scheduling Construction Manager (SS CM) serves as a key member of DLB Associates’ Construction Quality Management (CQM) Department, supporting hyperscale, mission-critical data center programs through expert schedule development, analysis, and control. Acting as an owner’s representative and trusted advisor, this role is responsible for developing, maintaining, and analyzing detailed construction schedules from preconstruction through closeout to support informed decision-making, risk mitigation, and successful project delivery.

The Senior Scheduling Construction Manager operates with a high degree of independence, supporting large, complex data center projects and programs. This position integrates closely with design, construction, commissioning, and client teams to ensure schedules accurately reflect scope, sequencing, constraints, and readiness requirements typical of mission-critical environments. This role may also provide guidance and informal oversight to junior scheduling staff.

This person will be self-directed on day-to-day work and receive high level instruction on new projects, tasks or assignments. Will execute and lead teams and projects, tasks or assignments of complex scope.  May coordinate activities of other personnel.

The SS CM will communicate and operate in line with organizational goals and values, as well as departmental objectives.

Essential Functions

Scheduling Leadership & Owner Advocacy

• Develop, maintain, and analyze integrated master schedules for hyperscale and mission-critical data center construction projects.

• Serve as the owner’s scheduling representative, providing objective analysis of contractor and program schedules.

• Translate project and client objectives into clear, executable scheduling strategies.

• Communicate schedule status, risks, and recovery strategies clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preconstruction & Planning

• Support preconstruction efforts including baseline schedule development, phasing plans, milestone definition, and constructability sequencing.

• Collaborate with design, procurement, and construction teams to ensure schedules reflect realistic durations, logic, and constraints.

• Support early identification of schedule risks related to long-lead equipment, permitting, utility coordination, and commissioning readiness.

Construction & Program Controls

• Maintain detailed Primavera P6 schedules, ensuring logic integrity, critical path accuracy, and progress validation.

• Review and analyze contractor updates, time impact analyses, and schedule recovery plans.