Lead Scheduler (Data Center Due Diligence and Preconstruction)

Location: Preferred in San Francisco, California, or Northern Virginia; remote candidates in the United States may be considered if able to travel occasionally for site visits and team collaboration.

Salary: $170,000–$210,000 per year, plus potential bonuses and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is presented alongside Turner & Townsend, a global professional services company delivering programme, project, cost, asset, commercial, controls, procurement, and digital solutions across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources.

What you will do

• Review developer construction schedules from the ground up, including logic, critical and near-critical paths, float, sequencing, delivery dates, power connections, and commissioning timelines.
• Assess long-lead equipment, staffing, resource loading, permitting, utility connections, seasonal impacts, and commissioning risks behind reported dates.
• Track schedule trends and variances, evaluate acceleration options, and distinguish effective recovery measures from cosmetic changes.
• Set the review methodology, evidence standards, checklists, benchmarks, and quality controls for the wider schedule review team.
• Allocate review capacity across concurrent due diligence deals and quality-check higher-stakes findings before client delivery.
• Maintain schedule handover records, develop reviewers, and improve the templates and tools used across the discipline.

Requirements

• 10–15 years of planning and scheduling experience, preferably in data centers, mission-critical facilities, or complex technical buildings.
• Demonstrated ability to independently review and challenge development and construction schedules, not only create them.
• Working fluency in P6 or equivalent scheduling software, including logic, critical path, and float analysis.
• Experience training, mentoring, or reviewing other scheduling professionals and managing competing priorities across multiple projects.
• Familiarity with earned value management or comparable progress-measurement methods, plus knowledge of equipment, permitting, energization, and commissioning timelines.
• Strong written communication and the ability to communicate difficult findings clearly while working with incomplete or outdated information.

Nice to have

• AACE PSP or PMI-SP certification.
• Experience with data center development, hyperscale buildings, or other mission-critical facilities.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a comprehensive benefits package and potential bonus eligibility.
• Flexible working environment focused on work-life balance.
• Remote work may be considered for suitable candidates.
• Travel is minimal, approximately three days per month, with occasional site visits and team collaboration.
• Work may include applicable SOX control responsibilities.