Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Scheduler for a confidential hyperscale data center client, both setting the standard other reviewers work to and carrying a portfolio of independent schedule reviews yourself. You will test whether developer-provided delivery dates are realistic, and you will decide what a rigorous review looks like for everyone doing that work alongside you.
Responsibilities
- Schedule review: Assess developer construction schedules from the ground up: logic, critical path and near-critical activity credibility, float, and sequencing. Confirm whether the delivery date, power connection, and commissioning and testing timelines are actually realistic, against the client's and our team's benchmarks.
- Supply chain and resourcing: Review the equipment and staffing plan behind a schedule, including long lead equipment orders and resource loading, and confirm whether the labor and materials backing the dates are firm commitments or assumptions.
- Evidence discipline: Be precise about what is known versus what is assumed. State plainly whether a number or date is confirmed, estimated, or simply what the developer has claimed, and hold your team to the same standard.
- Risk identification: Flag the risks a clean-looking schedule hides: long lead equipment, permitting, utility connections, seasonal weather, and compressed commissioning windows.
- Trend and variance analysis: Track how each schedule moves from one review to the next, not just a single point-in-time snapshot, and flag material variances and their likely cause.
- Acceleration analysis: Where a date is at risk, assess what could actually recover time, and which options are real versus cosmetic.
- Delivery handover: At construction start, make sure a clear schedule record, what was confirmed, what was assumed, and what is still an open risk, is handed to the onsite construction team on every deal your team touches.
- Setting the standard: Define what a complete, defensible schedule review looks like: the checklist, the depth of testing, and the level of evidence required, and hold every review on the team to it.
- Quality control: Review your team's higher-stakes findings before they reach a client, catching gaps or unsupported claims before anyone else does.
- Benchmarking: Build and maintain the library of schedule benchmarks, typical durations for long lead equipment, permitting, energization, and commissioning, that the whole team reviews against, so judgment calls are grounded in real data rather than memory.
- Process improvement: Build and refine the templates, tools, and checklists the schedule discipline runs on as the portfolio and the team grow.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.