Scheduler - Michels Infrastructure Solutions, Inc.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and update project schedules from preconstruction through project closeout.
• Build and manage baseline schedules, milestone schedules, resource-loaded schedules, recovery schedules, commissioning schedules, and turnover schedules.
• Develop integrated schedules supporting engineering, procurement, construction, logistics, commissioning, and turnover activities.
• Coordinate schedule development with Project Managers, Construction Managers, Superintendents, Project Controls personnel, Procurement teams, Engineers, and Subcontractors.
• Analyze schedule performance and identify risks, constraints, delays, float erosion, and recovery opportunities.
• Support forecasting and reporting activities by providing schedule analysis and project progress updates.
• Assist project teams with schedule-driven decision making, sequencing strategies, and execution planning.
• Support schedule governance, scheduling standards, and project-planning best practices.

What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules supporting hyperscale data center and mission-critical infrastructure projects.
• Establish project logic, sequencing, critical paths, milestones, resource plans, and schedule assumptions.
• Support planning activities associated with site development, earthwork, underground utilities, telecommunications infrastructure, structural concrete, power infrastructure, commissioning, and project turnover.
• Collaborate with project teams to validate execution strategies, manpower assumptions, procurement activities, construction sequencing, and commissioning requirements.
• Perform schedule updates using field-progress reporting, procurement-status updates, engineering deliverables, commissioning activities, and construction-progress data.
• Conduct critical-path analysis and evaluate schedule impacts resulting from design revisions, procurement delays, utility conflicts, weather events, productivity impacts, change orders, and owner-directed modifications.
• Facilitate schedule-review meetings, pull-planning sessions, look-ahead planning meetings, risk reviews, and recovery-planning workshops.
• Develop schedule-recovery plans and alternative execution strategies when project milestones are threatened.
• Prepare schedule reports, executive summaries, milestone updates, performance dashboards, and schedule-risk evaluations.
• Assist with project pursuits and preconstruction efforts by developing conceptual schedules, logistics assumptions, phasing plans, and execution strategies.
• Support procurement planning by integrating long-lead equipment and material milestones into project schedules.
• Support commissioning and turnover planning activities to ensure successful project transitions.
• Identify opportunities to improve schedule reliability, forecasting accuracy, production planning, and project-execution performance.

The successful delivery of hyperscale data centers and mission-critical infrastructure depends on exceptional planning, coordination, forecasting, and execution.

From greenfield site development and utility installation through commissioning and final turnover, project schedules serve as the roadmap that aligns engineering, procurement, construction, logistics, quality, commissioning, and customer expectations.

As a Scheduler, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining the integrated schedules that drive some of North America's largest and most complex hyperscale data center developments. Your efforts will help project teams identify risks, evaluate alternatives, establish priorities, and make informed decisions that support successful project delivery.

• Partner with project teams to establish realistic and achievable project schedules.
• Promote schedule awareness and accountability throughout project teams.
• Support project leaders by identifying risks, opportunities, and execution challenges before they affect project milestones.
• Help establish planning standards, scheduling best practices, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Facilitate collaboration between project stakeholders to improve schedule certainty and execution performance.

Why Michels Infrastructure Solutions, Inc.?

• We deliver some of North America's largest and most complex hyperscale data center and mission-critical infrastructure projects.
• We leverage a unique Super GC delivery model that combines specialty construction capabilities under a single-source execution approach.
• We provide exposure to every phase of project delivery, from greenfield site development and procurement through commissioning and turnover.
• We provide opportunities to influence project strategy and execution through planning, forecasting, and schedule leadership.
• We are family owned and operated.
• We invest an average of $5,000 per employee per year in training and career development.
• We perform challenging, meaningful work that supports cloud computing, artificial intelligence, digital connectivity, and economic growth.
• We believe everyone is responsible for promoting safety, regardless of job title.
• We are part of the Michels Family of Companies, one of North America's largest and most diversified energy and infrastructure contractors.
• We offer opportunities for long-term growth across scheduling, project controls, project management, operations, and leadership.

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Long-Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Legal Plan
• Identity Theft Protection and Monitoring Plan

Benefits may vary based on position and location.

Why You?

• You like to surround yourself with dedicated, value-driven people.
• You relish new challenges and evolving technology.
• You cringe when you hear: “Because that's the way we've always done it.”
• You enjoy solving complex planning, sequencing, and execution challenges.
• You thrive in environments where organization, communication, accountability, and foresight drive success.
• You enjoy transforming project data into meaningful execution strategies.
• You enjoy identifying schedule risks before they become project problems.
• You are motivated by ownership, continuous improvement, and helping teams achieve successful project outcomes.
• You want your efforts noticed and your results to make a meaningful impact.
• You want to work to make a difference.

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management, Business, or a related discipline and 3+ years of scheduling, project controls, construction management, engineering, field operations, or related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience developing or maintaining schedules for mission-critical, data center, EPC, power, industrial, infrastructure, utility, heavy civil, or large-scale construction projects.
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing, site-development activities, procurement workflows, commissioning processes, resource planning, critical-path scheduling, and project-execution methodologies.
• Experience developing baseline schedules, schedule updates, look-ahead schedules, recovery schedules, and schedule-risk assessments.
• Ability to perform schedule analysis, critical-path analysis, forecasting activities, progress validation, earned-value support, and schedule-impact evaluations.
• Experience supporting major earthwork, underground utility, telecommunications, industrial, power, EPC, infrastructure, or mission-critical construction projects preferred.
• Experience collaborating with Project Management, Construction Operations, Project Controls, Engineering, Procurement, Field Operations, Subcontractors, and Customers.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6 is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Power BI, Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Oracle Primavera, InEight, Acumen Fuse, or similar scheduling and planning platforms preferred.
• Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP), PMI-SP, PMP, or related certifications are preferred but not required.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, presentation, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously while maintaining a high degree of accuracy.
• Valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record.
• Ability to support long-term, site-based assignments at hyperscale data center and mission-critical construction projects throughout North America. This position is primarily project-based, with significant interaction occurring directly with field operations and project leadership. Initial project opportunities are expected to be located in Wisconsin, Missouri, Wyoming, and Texas, with future assignments determined by business needs and project awards.

Join a company that powers progress. Be a part of Michels Infrastructure Solutions, Inc.—where you don't just build projects, you build a career.

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Michels Infrastructure Solutions (MIS) brings together the full capabilities of the Michels Family of Companies under a Super General Contractor (Super GC) model, providing mission-critical owners and developers with a single point of accountability for every phase of project execution.

By combining self-performed specialty design, construction, and commissioning services, MIS delivers large-scale, multidisciplinary projects with greater control over safety, quality, schedule, and cost.

MIS specializes in the delivery of hyperscale data centers and mission-critical facilities, leveraging expertise across mass grading and site development, wet and dry utilities, fiber and telecommunications infrastructure, ground improvement, deep foundations, structural concrete, power infrastructure, and commissioning. Our integrated delivery approach enables customers to partner with a single-source team capable of executing some of North America's most complex and demanding infrastructure projects.

Position Overview

As a Scheduler, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and analyzing integrated project schedules supporting large-scale hyperscale data center and mission-critical infrastructure projects.

During the early phases of project development, you will support planning efforts associated with site development, mass grading, underground utilities, telecommunications infrastructure, structural concrete, power infrastructure, procurement planning, and construction mobilization activities. As projects advance, you will help manage schedule development, progress measurement, forecasting, execution planning, recovery planning, commissioning milestones, and turnover readiness activities.

This role serves as a critical partner to Project Management, Construction Management, Project Controls, Procurement, Engineering, Field Operations, Subcontractors, and Customers. You will help ensure project schedules accurately reflect project strategy, execution plans, resource requirements, procurement milestones, and project risks.

Success requires strong analytical skills, construction knowledge, planning expertise, communication abilities, and the ability to transform complex project information into actionable execution strategies.