About the Role
Meta is seeking a Schedule Lead for a key leadership position overseeing a portfolio of strategically important Data Center projects. This role serves as the technical schedule subject matter expert, owning all schedule management and reporting for the portfolio — with a strong focus on speed to market. The Schedule Lead is a critical partner to the Delivery Team and Project Controls Lead, helping forecast and mitigate schedule risks, enable commercial accountability, manage schedule health reporting/escalation, and ensure effective, expedient schedule change management.
This is a highly collaborative, analytical, and strategic role requiring strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills. You'll work closely with the DEC Technical Operations team and partner across Site Project Management, Pre-Construction, Contracts, Finance, Accounting, Sourcing, and Operations Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end schedule coordination and updates, including risk management interface and proactive communication of variance root causes with cross-functional partners
- Identify, document, and communicate schedule risks through defined processes (Risk Registers, health reviews, New Build Program management meetings)
- Own all aspects of vendor and contractor schedule management
- Own 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 on-time delivery
- Apply commercial entitlement for contractor Extensions of Time (EOT) across your portfolio; provide leadership on delay tracking, EOT requests, and claims; make recommendations aligned with contract terms and escalate when site decisions diverge from contractual or program guidance
- Lead identification and application of Proactive Risk Indicators, ensuring risks are escalated to Health Reviews and other appropriate forums; lead ad-hoc schedule analysis as needed
- Lead a small team of consultants (where required) to support schedule management for the portfolio
- Travel approximately 50% to other Data Center sites within the area, plus home office
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in Planning, Scheduling, Construction Management, or related fields
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or equivalent technical field (or equivalent experience)
- Subject matter expertise in Primavera P6 and other scheduling methodologies/software
- Experience developing/managing an Owner's planning and scheduling program
- Familiarity with Data Center, Infrastructure, or Construction programs involving complex commissioning specifications
- Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, prioritization, organization, and reporting skills
- Experience leading complex project/program planning and coordination across large groups of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience driving actions or operational adjustments based on schedule/project controls performance metrics
- Experience partnering cross-functionally to influence strategic direction; familiarity with complex networking systems and electrical infrastructure
- Experience identifying schedule efficiencies and driving programmatic/organizational alignment amid changing execution strategies
- Experience managing a team of contingent worker schedulers
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Experience negotiating schedule changes or complex construction claims
- Track record of successfully developing and implementing scheduling/project controls strategies in a large organization
- Experience with responsible, ethical AI practices (risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality/accuracy reviews)
- Ongoing AI skill development (prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and awareness of emerging AI technologies