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Site Planning Lead

Microsoft· Construction Project Management
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Pecos, TX$97.6k - $188.4kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is seeking a Site Planning Lead to manage and optimize project schedules for data center construction, coordinating design, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, and readiness milestones.

Responsibilities

  • Lead project-level schedule coordination and updates, including IMS maintenance, forecast adjustments, variance commentary, and alignment with site execution status.
  • Develop, maintain, and update the project Integrated Master Schedule covering design, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, and readiness milestones.
  • Own GC schedule management for assigned project(s), including weekly schedule review meetings, monthly schedule submissions, lookahead reviews, schedule narratives, progress validation, and action tracking.
  • Support contractor baseline schedule development and evaluation during pre-construction, ensuring alignment with program guidance, requirements, project milestones, sequencing, and execution strategy.
  • Validate GC schedule updates against field progress through site walks, GC inputs, actual start / finish dates, progress quantities, and milestone evidence.
  • Analyze schedule performance by tracking critical path, float consumption, logic quality, forecast movement, schedule health, resource loading, resource curves, and schedule variance trends.
  • Identify schedule risks, blockers, potential delays, and missed commitments, then document and communicate them through risk registers, weekly reporting, health reviews, and project forums.
  • Conduct initial review and support validation of Time Impact Analyses (TIAs), EOT requests, delay narratives, and schedule change impacts before escalation to the Sub-Regional Planning Lead and internal stakeholders.
  • Assess impacts of design changes, procurement / long-lead equipment delays, permitting constraints, commissioning constraints, construction sequencing changes, and labor / resource issues.
  • Develop recovery schedule options, mitigation scenarios, and what-if analysis to support project decision-making and schedule optimization.
  • Produce weekly and monthly schedule reports, including schedule status, milestone performance, lookahead risks, variance root cause, mitigation actions, and required stakeholder decisions.
  • Support baseline management and change control throughout the project lifecycle by maintaining schedule assumptions, basis of schedule, change narratives, and decision records.
  • Facilitate collaborative planning, pull planning, and lookahead sessions with GC and site teams to improve field coordination and execution readiness.
  • Escalate risks, repeated schedule quality issues, missing GC submissions, or stakeholder blockers to the Sub-Regional Planning Lead with clear facts, options, and recommendations.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years related experience OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)

Benefits

  • See compensation details and benefits information linked in the job description.
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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