What are the responsibilities and job description for the Planning Scheduling Manager position at Insight Global?
JOB DESCRIPTION
Insight Global is seeking a Project Scheduling Manager to join a top energy company in Houston, TX, supporting the engineering, procurement, and construction of multiple hyperscale, mission-critical data centers across the United States. This person will be responsible for leading all planning and scheduling activities across Data Center projects. The Project Scheduling Manager develops, maintains, and analyzes integrated project schedules, ensuring accurate visibility of progress, critical paths, and forecasted completion. They will establish and maintain the overall project schedule covering engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning phases, lead schedule development in Primavera P6, ensuring alignment with project work breakdown structure (WBS) and execution strategy, conduct critical path, float, and what-if analyses to support project decisions and identify recovery opportunities, coordinate weekly and monthly updates, integrating progress from contractors, vendors, and internal functions, validate reported progress against actual site performance and milestones, prepare and issue schedule performance reports, including variance explanations and forecast completion dates, support change management by evaluating schedule impacts of scope or sequence changes, provide mentoring and guidance to schedulers and planners to maintain consistency and quality of schedule data.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
10-15 years of experience in project planning and scheduling for large-scale construction or industrial projects (preferably from the general contracting side) Expert knowledge of Primavera P6 and advanced scheduling methodologies 10 years of experience developing and maintaining integrated EPC or GC coordination schedules Strong understanding of construction sequencing, progress measurement, and earned value principles 5 years of experience delivering large-scale data center facilities for major technology clients Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline
NICE TO HAVE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Professional certification such as PMI-SP, AACE PSP, or equivalent Experience with schedule analytics tools and Power BI dashboards