Scheduling Manager (Owner's Representative) - Data Center Construction
KALCON · Abernathy, TX
Seeking a Scheduling Manager to provide Owner Rep P6 schedule oversight of General Contractor schedules on a data center build - Abernathy, TX
This is a hybrid remote flex role that will require commitment to 25-50% travel to the Abernathy, TX site.
Minimum Qualifications:
-Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or relevant functional discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
-3-10+ years related work
-Understand the Critical Path Method of scheduling theoretically and as it applies to projects
-Ability to understand and accurately interpret construction documents (drawings, specifications, contracts/general conditions) at all levels of design.
-Expert knowledge of Primavera Scheduling Software (P6, latest Version) and MS
-Extensive experience using Microsoft Office software tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Word.
-Data center experience is a plus.
Duties and Responsibilities:
-Independently audit general contractor (GC) Primavera P6 schedules (XER files) for accuracy and conformance to client standards and project requirements.
-Help to establish and maintain a national, repeatable scheduling framework—including templates, coding structures, and reporting formats.
-Track and report critical milestones, enabling client leadership to make timely, data‑driven decisions.
-Baseline & Progress Audits: Monthly at minimum; Focused Audits: Weekly, upon GC update receipt or at client request
-Track OFCI equipment delivery dates and highlight problem areas, with the afore mentioned superintendent and subcontractor buy-in to solutions.
-Run DCMA Checks. 2. Compare against contractual baseline & previous period. 3. Review activities that are running in parallel. 4. Review multiple float paths. 5. Identify variance drivers & risks. 6. Recommend corrective actions.
-Standardize L1 and L2 Milestones to be able to compare different construction projects
-Validate that constraints are assigned only to required L1 and L2 identifies milestones and ensure that the critical path is logical.
-Ability to translate, create and update schedule sequences to PDF drawings for visual
-You will join the Project Controls team in providing professional scheduling capabilities and enable Client's ability to profoundly affect and accelerate speed to market
-Responsible for developing policies and procedures for scheduling and facilitating user training with our internal and external stakeholders
-Contribute to the development of planning and sequencing of activities from concept through commissioning
-Define activities and associated scope, durations, logic, and interface between activities and resource loading of those activitie
-Review and analyze critical path schedules, in an efficient and comprehensive manner with
-Develop comprehensive plans that communicates the programs, projects, and strategic goals
-Monitor schedule performance data, develop complex data analysis, and issue schedule reports required by management and project procedures
-Investigate and incorporate project constraints in planning effort
-Perform Time Impact Analysis and Claims analyzation
-Develop schedule variance analysis
-Run schedule risk scenarios based on Monte Carlo and other risk analysis
KALCON is seeking an experienced and proactive Field Project Manager to support the successful delivery of mission-critical data center construction projects. Acting as an extension of the Owner's Representative team, this role provides day-to-day field oversight and coordination of construction activities, contractor performance, project interfaces, schedule execution, quality assurance, commissioning readiness, and project turnover. The Field Manager serves as the owner's on-site representative and works closely with contractors, consultants, vendors, commissioning teams, operations personnel, and other stakeholders to support safe, efficient, and successful project delivery.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, Building Science, or a related field preferred.
- 5+ years of experience supporting commercial, industrial, mission-critical, data center, healthcare, manufacturing, or large-scale infrastructure construction projects.
- Experience serving as a Field Manager, Field Engineer, Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, Assistant Construction Manager, Owner's Representative, Project Engineer, or similar construction leadership role.
- Strong knowledge of construction means and methods, project sequencing, scheduling, procurement, quality control, safety practices, commissioning, and project closeout processes.
- Experience coordinating contractors, subcontractors, consultants, vendors, and owner stakeholders in active construction environments.
- Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, contracts, and technical project documentation.
- Experience tracking and coordinating RFIs, submittals, procurement activities, inspections, commissioning activities, turnover requirements, and project documentation.
- Familiarity with CPM schedules, look-ahead planning, milestone tracking, and construction progress reporting.
- Working knowledge of quality assurance, quality control, contractor safety programs, and punch-list management.
- Experience supporting projects in occupied facilities, live environments, phased turnovers, or operational settings preferred.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, and construction management platforms such as Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Unifier, or similar systems.
- Strong organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with contractors, consultants, vendors, clients, and project stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced construction environment.
- Ability to perform regular site walks and provide field-based oversight throughout all phases of construction.
- Ability to travel as required based on project assignments.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Daily Field Management
- Maintain an active field presence and observe construction activities for general conformance with contract documents, approved submittals, design intent, project requirements, and planned
- Assess daily and weekly progress, validate reported completion, and identify emerging constraints before they affect cost, schedule, safety, quality, commissioning, or
- Coordinate base-building, tenant fit-out, retrofit, and live-facility interfaces, including site access, logistics, deliveries, work areas, temporary conditions, and phased
- Coordinate owner, general contractor, fit-out contractor, direct vendor, and third-party activities in the field
- Support MOP, shutdown, notification, energization, startup, and other critical-work
Schedule, Procurement and Document Coordination
- Track day-to-day schedule performance, critical activities, near-term look-aheads, constraints, and recovery
- Participate in weekly CPM reviews, detailed planning meetings, subcontractor coordination sessions, and vendor startup
- Track RFIs, submittals, procurement items, OFCI equipment, owner-direct vendors, inspections, and required decisions that affect field
- Coordinate customer or tenant fit-out milestones with base-building completion and turnover
- Document significant events, differing conditions, rework, access limitations, and potential change
Quality, Safety, Cost and Closeout Support
- Provide general oversight of contractor ǪA/ǪC and safety implementation and promptly elevate observed deficiencies or
- Participate in regular site walks, punch-list reviews, inspections, and correction
- Support review of pay applications, change requests, buyout information, and field quantities by vali