Project Scheduling Manager- Data Centers

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SLB New Energy & Industrial (NEI) is a division of SLB; our portfolio includes ventures in carbon capture and sequestration, geothermal power, energy storage, sustainable battery-grade lithium, hydrogen and Data center infrastructure solutions. To know more about NEI please visit https://www.slb.com/about/driving-energy-innovation/scaling-new-energy-systems

Our Data Center infrastructure solutions business provides Innovative and cost-effective solutions that enable building faster, smarter and more resilient data centers. Our modular infrastructure solutions scale AI and cloud computing capacity while minimizing capital risk and deployment delays. From design and supply chain to commissioning and operations, by standardizing components and relocating labor to controlled offsite environments, we help reduce costs, improve lead times, and lower construction risk while ensuring quality and global repeatability. To know more about our Data Centers Infrastructure solutions please visit https://www.slb.com/products-and-services/scaling-new-energy-systems/data-center-infrastructure-solutions

SLB is seeking a highly qualified and motivated Project Scheduling Manager to lead 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. This role plays a key part in enabling proactive decision-making by identifying potential delays early and coordinating recovery actions with engineering, supply chain, and construction teams.

Roles And Responsibilities

• 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.
  
  

Qualifications And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline.
• 10-15 years of experience in project planning and scheduling for large-scale construction or industrial projects
• Expert knowledge of Primavera P6 and advanced scheduling methodologies.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining integrated EPC or GC coordination schedules
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing, progress measurement, and earned value principles
• Prior experience delivering large-scale data center facilities for major technology clients is highly preferred.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Professional certification such as PMI-SP, AACE PSP, or equivalent is preferred.
• Experience with schedule analytics tools and Power BI dashboards is preferred.
• Candidates must be able to legally work and reside in the US, without sponsorship.
  
  

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