The Planner / Scheduler builds and maintains the integrated project schedule for a data center build, with regular progress updates and rigorous analysis of critical path, slippage, and recovery scenarios. On a program where energization dates carry commercial commitments, the schedule isn’t an artifact - it’s the project’s operating instrument, and this role keeps it honest. Some of the key responsibilities you should expect are the following: Integrated Schedule Ownership Build and maintain the integrated P6 schedule spanning engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning, with logic that reflects real delivery: submittal-to-fabrication chains, delivery-to-installation ties, water-tightness gates, and Cx prerequisite sequences. Progress & Status Discipline Run the progress cycle: field walk-downs and progress capture with superintendents, partner schedule updates, and monthly re-baselining governance. Challenge optimistic progress claims with installed-quantity evidence. Critical Path & Recovery Analysis Analyze critical and near-critical paths, float erosion, and slippage drivers every cycle. Model recovery scenarios and what-ifs (resequencing, added shifts, early-release packages) with cost/feasibility input from the PM and superintendents, and present options leadership can actually choose between. Contractor & Vendor Schedule Integration Integrate and interrogate GC/EPC and major vendor schedules: audit logic and durations, test milestone credibility, and hold partners to schedule-basis commitments. Own the delivery-date interface with the Logistics & Expediting Manager. Commissioning Schedule Development Build the Level 1-5 commissioning schedule with the CXQC Field Manager - system-by-system, with realistic vendor technician and utility dependencies - and protect it from construction compression. Reporting Produce schedule health reporting that drives decisions: lookaheads, milestone trend charts, float consumption, and a written critical-path narrative for the weekly and monthly rhythm.