Area Schedule Lead – Data Center Design, Engineering and Construction

About the Role

Meta is looking for a candidate to fill a key leadership role in scheduling for a portfolio of Data Center projects of strategic importance to the company. As the Schedule Lead, you will serve as the technical Schedule subject matter expert, overseeing all schedule management and reporting for your assigned projects. Your primary focus will be on accelerating time to market and acting as a critical partner to the Delivery Team and Project Controls Lead. You will forecast and help mitigate schedule-related risks and issues, enable commercial accountability, manage schedule health reporting and escalation, and ensure effective and expedient schedule change management. This role demands strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills, operating within a highly collaborative, analytical, and strategic capacity. You will work closely with the DEC Technical Operations team and various internal departments, including Site Project Management, Pre-Construction, Contracts, Finance, Accounting, Sourcing, and Operations Engineering.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end schedule coordination and updates, including interface with risk management and proactive communication of updates and alignment of variance root cause/commentary with cross-functional partners.
• Identify, document, and communicate schedule risks through defined processes such as Risk Registers, health reviews, and New Build Program management meetings.
• Accountable for all aspects of vendor and Contractor schedule management.
• Accountable for Contractor baseline schedule development and evaluation during pre-construction, ensuring adherence to program guidance and specifications. Lead efforts to optimize schedules for speed to market and successful on-time delivery.
• Responsible for the application of commercial entitlement for contractor Extensions of Time (EOT) for your designated project portfolio. Provide leadership to site teams for Delay Tracking, EOT requests, and claims. Make recommendations aligned with the contract and escalate when site decisions differ from contractual or program guidance.
• Lead the identification and application of Proactive Risk Indicators in sub-areas and ensure all risks are properly escalated to Health Reviews and other appropriate forums. Lead ad-hoc schedule analysis to support the program as required.
• Lead a small team of consultants (if required) to support effective schedule management for the designated project portfolio.
• Approximately 50% travel to other Data Center sites within the Area and home office.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Planning, Scheduling, Construction Management, or a related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or equivalent technical field or related experience.
• Subject Matter Expert in Primavera P6 and other scheduling methodologies and software.
• Experience developing/managing an Owner’s planning/scheduling program.
• Familiarity with Data Center, Infrastructure, or Construction programs requiring complicated commissioning specifications.
• Demonstrated analytical, communication, problem-solving, prioritization, organization, and reporting skills.
• Experience leading complex project or program planning and coordination amongst a large group of internal and external project stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience developing and driving actions or operational adjustments based on schedule or project controls performance metrics.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional teams to influence strategic direction.
• Familiarity with complex networking systems and electrical infrastructure.
• Experience identifying schedule efficiencies and driving programmatic or organizational alignment in changing execution strategies to optimize schedule performance.
• Experience managing a team of Contingent Worker Schedulers.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements).
• Experience negotiating schedule changes or complex construction claims.
• Successful development and implementation of scheduling or project controls strategies in a large organization.
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews).
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies.