Senior Construction Scheduler in Hemel Hempstead

Your role at a glance: As our Senior Construction Scheduler, you will be responsible for reviewing and analyzing General Contractors’ schedules and reporting on schedule health to the Project Team and other key stakeholders. You will work closely with NTT’s Construction Team and General Contractors to drive consistency, accountability, and adherence to established scheduling standards across all projects. In this role, you will support the analysis of schedule delays by reviewing, summarizing, and comparing General Contractors’ Time Impact Analyses (TIAs) against other available project data. You will play an integral role in providing data-driven insights to enhance project predictability and will be responsible for collecting and maintaining as-built data.

What we are looking for:

• Fully versed in Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling requirements for construction projects, including the development and maintenance of logic-driven schedules, critical path analysis, risk assessment, and adherence to contractual scheduling specifications.
• Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) and the ability to apply its principles in internal schedule and performance reporting.
• Proficient in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project (MSP) scheduling software.
• Demonstrated ability to read and interpret construction drawings and specifications to analyze and evaluate contractor-produced schedules.
• Excellent analytical skills, creative thinking abilities, and strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience reviewing Time Impact Analyses (TIAs) and recovery schedules to assess schedule impacts and proposed mitigation strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to effectively lead meetings and develop strong project controls systems.
• Ability to handle confidential information with a high degree of discretion.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to manage stress effectively in a fast-paced work environment.

Academic Qualifications & Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.
• Professional certification, such as PSP, is preferred.

Required Experience:

• Several years of experience in construction scheduling, including baseline schedule development, critical path and variance analysis, Earned Value Management (EVM), and forensic schedule analysis.
• Experience with data centre construction projects is preferred.

Work Conditions & Other Requirements:

• Primarily remote, with occasional on-site collaboration as required.
• Flexibility to work across global time zones.
• Limited travel may be required (approximately 10%).

What you will do:

• Lead baseline schedule development by partnering with NTT’s General Contractors to establish accurate, fully logic-driven project baselines.
• Review General Contractors’ project schedules to identify potential risks, constraints, and sequencing issues, with a proactive focus on mitigation and recovery strategies.
• Develop periodic schedule reports and proactively communicate schedule risks and performance trends to project stakeholders.
• Ensure client-specific scheduling requirements are met, including compliance with contractual obligations, reporting standards, and project-specific deliverables.
• Develop schedule what-if scenarios and perform comparative schedule assessments to support data-driven decision-making.
• Champion and support the implementation of scheduling best practices across GID, driving the standardization of processes, templates, coding structures, and reporting methodologies to ensure consistency, data integrity, and alignment with portfolio-level controls and governance standards.
• Develop meaningful scheduling key performance indicators (KPIs) that accurately reflect project progress at any given point in time, providing clear visibility into performance against the baseline.
• Review Time Impact Analyses (TIAs) and provide structured feedback to the Construction Team and General Contractors.
• Partner with project stakeholders to support planning efforts and maintain schedule control throughout the project lifecycle by developing and managing internal schedules that accurately reflect current progress across all project phases.
• Lead schedule progress meetings with the Construction Team and General Contractors to review project status, validate updates, and address variances.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as required.

Who we are: As the third largest data centre provider, we operate over 150 data centres in more than 20 countries and regions. We understand that every business has its own unique needs and goals. We offer local-to-global data centre expertise, aligned with our connected platform of AI-ready data centres to create solutions that enable our clients to seamlessly scale their digital businesses, anywhere and anytime.