{"id":3197098,"url":"https://alion.io/job/oracle-director-data-center-planning-scheduling","title":"Director, Data Center Planning & Scheduling","company":{"id":53,"name":"Oracle","domain":"oracle.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/oracle","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":305,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.675,"repost_share":0.007,"time_to_fill_p50_days":8,"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":146300,"max":306400,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":306400},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"EVMS","optional":false},{"name":"Power BI","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-22T18:36:33Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-22","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T10:13:04Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":6,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":6},"description":"The Director, Data Center Planning & Scheduling will lead the client planning and scheduling function for a construction campus comprising multiple data centers and shared infrastructure. Manage a team of planners and schedulers to establish integrated schedules, assess delivery performance, identify emerging risks, and provide clear advice to client leadership.\nProvide oversight and challenge of contractor schedules, ensuring that campus priorities, building completion dates, infrastructure readiness, commissioning, and operational handover are aligned.\nThis role requires 50% travel.\n Director, Data Center Planning & Scheduling - Santa Teresa, NM\nKey responsibilities\nTeam leadership\nLead, develop, and coordinate a team of planners and schedulers across multiple buildings, infrastructure packages, and delivery phases.\nAllocate resources to match project priorities and maintain consistent planning standards, methods, and reporting.\nReview the quality of team deliverables and provide technical guidance on scheduling, analysis, and forecasting.\nEstablish clear ownership of schedule interfaces and coordination with contractors and client stakeholders.\nIntegrated planning and scheduling\nDevelop and maintain the client’s integrated campus master schedule, incorporating design, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.\nCoordinate dependencies between individual data centers and shared infrastructure, including power, utilities, communications, access, and logistics.\nIntegrate long-lead equipment manufacturing, delivery, installation, and testing milestones into the overall delivery plan.\nEstablish schedule baselines, milestone definitions, progress measurement requirements, and schedule update procedures.\nEvaluate contractor baseline schedules, updates, recovery plans, and proposed changes for completeness, credibility, and alignment with client requirements.\nCoordinate phased turnover and commissioning sequences with client operations and relevant technical teams.\nCPM and schedule assurance\nApply strong Critical Path Method (CPM) expertise to assess schedule logic, activity durations, calendars, constraints, float, and critical and near-critical paths.\nAssess whether schedules accurately represent construction methods, sequencing, interfaces, and completion requirements.\nIdentify open-ended activities, excessive constraints, inappropriate lags, and other weaknesses affecting forecast reliability.\nChallenge unsupported assumptions and assess the practicality of proposed mitigation, acceleration, and recovery measures.\nMaintain visibility of the drivers of campus and building completion dates.\nTrending, analytics, and forecasting\nEstablish schedule performance indicators and dashboards that support timely client decisions.\nAnalyze milestone movement, float erosion, critical path changes, progress variance, productivity, and procurement performance.\nIdentify adverse trends across reporting periods and assess their implications for future delivery.\nUse schedule data, quantities, production rates, and field evidence to develop realistic completion forecasts.\nPrepare scenario and sensitivity analyses to evaluate sequencing options, resource constraints, and mitigation strategies.\nPresent clear findings, recommendations, and required decisions to client leadership.\nRisk, change, and delay assessment\nWork with project teams to identify schedule risks and opportunities and track agreed responses.\nAssess the schedule implications of design changes, procurement delays, access restrictions, and construction or commissioning issues.\nCoordinate schedule input into change control and maintain traceable records of assumptions, impacts, and decisions.\nSupport review of contractor delay submissions and extension-of-time requests with commercial and contracts teams.\nMaintain reliable schedule records and supporting evidence for subsequent delay analysis.\nStakeholder coordination and reporting\nLead campus planning reviews and contractor schedule coordination meetings.\nWork closely with design, construction, procurement, commercial, commissioning, and operations teams.\nProvide concise reporting on progress, forecast dates, key dependencies, emerging risks, and corrective actions. This will include KPIs based on Earned Value Management and trending.\nReporting will leverage input received from Lessor, from site walks and performance evaluated by Reality Capture applications eventually deployed on site.\nEscalate material schedule concerns promptly, supported by evidence and practical options.\nEnsure schedule commitments and changes follow the client’s governance and approval processes.\nRequired qualifications and experience\nDegree in engineering, construction management, project management, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.\nSubstantial planning and scheduling experience on major construction programs, including leadership of planning teams.\nExperience delivering data centers, mission-critical facilities, or similarly complex projects with significant building services and commissioning requirements.\nDemonstrated ability to coordinate multiple concurrent projects and shared infrastructure within an integrated program.\nAdvanced CPM knowledge and proficiency in Primavera P6 or an equivalent enterprise scheduling platform.\nStrong capabilities in schedule trending, analytics, forecasting, and interpretation of complex project data.\nExperience reviewing and challenging contractor schedules, progress submissions, and recovery plans.\nStrong communication, stakeholder management, and team development skills, with the confidence to provide objective client advice.\nPreferred experience\nMonte Carlo schedule risk analysis, including assessment of uncertainty, risk dependencies, confidence levels, and contingency requirements.\nForensic planning and delay analysis, including time impact analysis, windows analysis, critical path assessment, and evaluation of contemporaneous records.\nClient-side planning leadership on multi-building data center campuses.\nFamiliarity with utility energization, long-lead electrical and mechanical equipment, integrated systems testing, and phased operational handover.\nExperience using Power BI or similar tools to automate schedule reporting and develop analytical dashboards.\nRelevant professional certification, such as PMI-SP, AACE PSP, or an equivalent qualification.\nMeasures of success\nA credible, integrated campus schedule that supports client delivery priorities.\nTimely identification of schedule risks, adverse trends, and interface conflicts.\nClear, evidence-based forecasts and actionable recommendations.\nConsistent, high-quality planning outputs across the team.\nEffective coordination of construction, infrastructure readiness, commissioning, and handover.\nTraceable assessment of schedule changes and timely escalation of material impacts.\nDisclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.\nOracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.\n9. 11 paid holidays\n10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.\n11. Paid parental leave\n12. Adoption assistance\n13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan\n14. Financial planning and group legal\n15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance\nThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.\nAs part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. 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