Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Schedule Manager to support our key client's North America data center portfolio across the full project lifecycle, from pre-lease through preconstruction and into construction.
As a Senior Schedule Manager, you will own schedule oversight for assigned sites from early pre-lease due diligence through lease execution, preconstruction baseline development, and into construction, where you will support the on-site Project Manager with ongoing schedule management, forecasting, and recovery planning. You will work closely with the pre-lease senior project manager during the due diligence phase, then with the pre-con SPM during the lease-to-construction handoff, and with on-site delivery teams once construction is underway, providing continuity of schedule knowledge across a phase of the project where ownership and teams typically change hands. You will play a critical role in tracking contractual milestone dates, integrating schedules across trades, and surfacing schedule risk before it becomes a delivery issue.
You will embody Turner & Townsend's commitment to excellence while helping deliver best-in-class consulting services to leading developers, investors, and hyperscale clients throughout the United States.
Responsibilities
- Lead schedule oversight for assigned data center sites across the full lifecycle: pre-lease due diligence, lease execution, preconstruction baseline development, and construction, maintaining continuity as projects move between teams.
- Review and track lease-defined contractual dates, including EFA/FA/RFS, associated penalties and grace periods, lease-defined acceleration incentives, and power delivery and ramp dates, escalating schedule risk proactively.
- Develop and maintain the integrated project schedule, including baseline schedule development, critical-path tracking, and labor curve alignment.
- Conduct due diligence schedule reviews during pre-lease, including benchmarking proposed schedules against comparable sister projects and flagging unrealistic or inconsistent milestone assumptions ahead of lease finalization.
- Develop and maintain the baseline schedule during preconstruction, in coordination with the Senior Project Manager, and transition schedule ownership cleanly into construction.
- Support the on-site Project Manager during construction with ongoing schedule management, including progress tracking, forward look-ahead schedules, and recovery plan development when milestones are at risk.
- Review, evaluate, and incorporate schedule impacts from change orders, ensuring they are fully documented and benchmarked against comparable sites.
- Maintain schedule benchmarking data across the portfolio to support consistent evaluation of milestone durations, trade sequencing, and labor curves across sites.
- Prepare executive-level schedule reporting, including milestone status, critical-path risk, variance summaries, and recovery plans, for client and internal leadership review.
- Partner with the Senior Cost Manager and Senior Project Manager to ensure schedule, cost, and scope remain aligned throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support the ongoing development of standardized schedule tracking artifacts and benchmarking tools to improve consistency and visibility across the program.
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.