Schedule Management Lead

Job description

## **Careers at Keel** Keel Infrastructure is a publicly traded energy and digital infrastructure company that develops and owns data centers and power assets across North America. At Keel, you’re not just joining a company, you’re helping build the infrastructure behind the future of compute. **Why Keel** We’re at the intersection of energy and technology, two industries transforming in real time. The work is complex. The pace is fast. The impact is real. You’ll be part of a team that values: - **Ownership**— we take responsibility and follow through - **Collaboration**— we work across teams, functions, and borders - **Curiosity**— we ask questions and keep learning - **Endurance**— we build for the long term **What It Feels Like to Work Here** - Fast-moving, high-growth, and hands-on - Smart, driven people solving real challenges together - Work that directly supports AI and next-generation infrastructure - Room to grow, stretch, and take on more **What We Offer** - Competitive salary, bonus and equity opportunities - Comprehensive health and wellness benefits - Retirement savings with company contribution - Employee referral program We are currently looking for a **Schedule Management Lead**to join our team ## ## ## Purpose of the Role *The Schedule Management Lead is the developer and owner of the scheduling function at Keel Infrastructure. The role stands up centralized schedule management as a service to the business — building the methodology, standards, data, and tooling from the ground up, then running that service across the portfolio. This is a hands-on delivery role for someone who has personally driven projects to completion and wants to build the function, not inherit it.* ## Key Responsibilities **Function Development & Centralized Schedule Management** - Establish and own the centralized scheduling function for Keel Infrastructure, defining its scope, service model, and interface with development, project management, project controls, procurement, and finance. - Set up and manage the plan of record for every project in the portfolio, maintaining schedules centrally rather than leaving them distributed across contractors and project teams. - Build the scheduling toolset and environment — enterprise structure, EPS/WBS hierarchy, coding dictionaries, calendars, layouts, and security — so schedules roll up cleanly from activity to portfolio level. - Own execution planning alongside scheduling — define the work breakdown and packaging strategy, delivery sequencing logic, and phasing approach for each project before logic is built, so the schedule reflects a deliberate plan rather than a transcription of contractor intent. - Maintain the multi-year portfolio delivery plan, sequencing projects against capital availability, resource capacity, and utility timing so development and finance plan against a single roadmap. **Preconstruction & Concept Stage Scheduling** - Develop concept and feasibility-stage schedules for prospective sites, translating limited early information into credible, benchmark-backed duration and milestone assumptions. - Model entitlement, permitting, utility interconnection, and power energization paths at concept stage, and quantify their impact on ready-for-service dates. - Support site selection, capital planning, and investment approval with schedule scenarios, comparative site timelines, and sensitivity analysis. **Delivery Stage Schedule Management** - Own the integrated master schedule through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational turnover, maintaining continuity from the concept-stage baseline. - Integrate contractor, vendor, A&E, utility, and long-lead equipment schedules into a single program plan, resolving interface conflicts across packages. - Align the schedule to the commissioning plan and L0–L5 requirements to protect handover dates. **Process, Procedure & Standards Development** - Author and roll out the scheduling processes, procedures, and templates used across the portfolio — baseline approval, update cycles, progress measurement, change control, and quality gates. - Define schedule specification requirements for contractor and consultant agreements, then review submissions against those requirements and reject non-conforming schedules. - Apply structured schedule quality checks (DCMA 14-point or equivalent) as a gate on every baseline and update. **Database Development & Benchmarking** - Build and own the historical schedule database and WBS structure, capturing actual durations, sequences, productivity rates, and milestone performance from every completed and in-flight project. - Develop the benchmark set that underpins concept-stage planning: standard durations by scope and package, typical critical path shapes, and realistic ranges rather than single-point assumptions. - Maintain reference and template schedules for standard data center product types so new projects start from proven logic instead of a blank page. **Progress Tracking & Performance Measurement** - Own progress measurement across the portfolio: define rules of credit, physical percent complete methodologies, and earned progress curves by package and discipline. - Produce and interpret performance metrics — SPI, float consumption, critical path movement, milestone slippage, and installation rates — and convert them into recovery recommendations. - Validate contractor-reported progress against field verification, installed quantities, and commissioning readiness rather than accepting reported percentages at face value. **Risk, Change & Reporting** - Maintain schedule risk registers and run quantitative schedule risk analysis to size contingency and test milestone confidence levels. - Assess time impact of change orders, RFIs, design revisions, weather, and utility delays; prepare and review time impact analyses and support delay claim evaluation. - Enforce schedule change governance so every revision to the plan of record is documented, justified, and traceable. - Produce portfolio-level schedule dashboards and narrative reporting for project leadership and senior executives. ## Requirements ### Experience & Background - 10+ years of scheduling and project controls experience on large capital construction programs, with demonstrable hands-on project delivery — not reporting-only experience. - Direct experience building or substantially rebuilding a scheduling function, including the processes, standards, tooling, and data behind it. - Proven experience developing concept and preconstruction-stage schedules that inform real capital and site selection decisions. - Experience managing schedules through the full delivery lifecycle to commissioning and turnover, with personal accountability for milestone delivery. - Track record building or using historical schedule databases and benchmark data to set and defend duration assumptions. - Data center, mission-critical, hyperscale, HPC, heavy industrial, or utility-scale project experience strongly preferred; owner, developer, or program management side preferred. ### Technical Knowledge - Expert-level Primavera P6, including enterprise/EPS configuration, multi-project structures, global change, and baseline management; Microsoft Project and Smartsheet preferred. - Deep command of CPM scheduling theory: logic, float, calendars, constraints, critical and near-critical path analysis, and schedule compression techniques. - Working knowledge of earned value management, time impact analysis, and quantitative schedule risk analysis (Monte Carlo). - Data structuring and analytics capability — Power BI, SQL, or equivalent — sufficient to build and query a benchmarking database. - Understanding data center design and construction: electrical distribution, power systems, mechanical cooling, structural and civil packages, and utility interconnection sequencing. ### Delivery & Competencies - Builder's mindset — comfortable operating with no existing framework and creating the standard rather than applying someone else's. - Drives accountability across internal and external teams without formal authority. - Highly analytical, with the judgment to distinguish reporting noise from real schedule risk. - Clear written and verbal communication; able to make a complex schedule understandable to non-schedulers. ### Educational Requirements - Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field. - Professional certifications related to role are preferred. ## Key Success Metrics - Function established — A centralized scheduling function operating as a recognized service to the business, with documented processes, standards, and tooling in place and in use. - Concept-stage credibility — Preconstruction and concept schedules that hold up as projects mature, with early assumptions traceable and variance explained. - Continuity of the plan of record — A single owned schedule carried from concept through turnover without re-baselining to mask slippage. - Milestone adherence — On-time delivery of key milestones from entitlement and energization through commissioning and turnover. ## Work Arrangement - Location: Pittsburgh Office currently in the strip district - Schedule: On-site a minimum of three (3) days per week. - Travel: Periodic travel to Keel Infrastructure project sites, vendor facilities, and partner locations as required. Our compensation package includes a base salary, a year end bonus target, and participates in our yearly equity grant. We offer a fantastic benefits package and many perks. There's a top-down emphasis on amazing day to day work culture here at Keel.