EMEA Scheduling Manager

About the Role

The Amazon EMEA Data Center Design & Construction Delivery (DCCD) team leads one of the world's fastest-growing infrastructure portfolios, fueling the expansion of AWS cloud services throughout the EMEA region. The EMEA Scheduling Manager spearheads the regional scheduling strategies, oversees governance, and enforces continuous improvement initiatives across all construction projects. This position ensures consistent scheduling standards, enables contractors and Construction Managers to deliver projects safely and on time, and offers executive-level insights into schedule health.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement scalable scheduling standards, governance mechanisms, and best practices tailored for the EMEA data center construction portfolio.
• Continuously refine the EMEA Schedule Specification, including Work Breakdown Structures, milestone definitions, credit rules, activity coding, calendars, progress measurement, schedule quality, baseline requirements, and update protocols.
• Oversee contractor compliance with scheduling standards via audits, logic reviews, critical path verification, float analyses, and maturity checks.
• Collaborate with General Contractors, scheduling consultants, and Construction Managers to enhance schedule uniformity and quality across all projects.
• Analyze contractor schedules to evaluate dependencies, sequencing, constraints, and risks while ensuring adherence to regional scheduling norms.
• Manage schedule risk by supporting recovery plans, delay analysis, and mitigation strategies.
• Define and monitor schedule KPIs, leading the development of a cohesive project controls framework alongside cost, risk, commissioning, and business intelligence teams.
• Provide scheduling guidance throughout project planning and execution phases, addressing scope changes, procurement risks, sequencing, and contingency planning.
• Champion digital transformation through the deployment and enhancement of scheduling tools like Primavera P6 and Procore, improving data quality for reporting and executive dashboards.
• Develop and deliver training materials, coaching programs, and guidance documentation to strengthen regional scheduling capabilities among internal teams and contractors.

Basic Qualifications

• Proven experience in construction, project management, or delivery of data centers, mission-critical, or industrial/manufacturing facilities.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, project management, construction management, or a closely related technical field.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office suite including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and MS Project.
• Demonstrated competence in negotiating and managing vendors, contractors, and subcontractors within construction projects.
• Experience utilizing financial KPIs to assess project status and communicating findings to senior leadership.
• Strong ability to present complex information and influence executive decisions effectively.
• Deep knowledge of scheduling methodologies including Critical Path Method, risk analysis, contingency management, delay analysis, and recovery planning.
• Experience conducting schedule reviews to enhance contractor compliance and project delivery quality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project management experience specific to data centers or critical infrastructure development.
• Expertise in developing regional or enterprise-level scheduling governance and controls frameworks.
• Prior implementation and management of Primavera P6 Enterprise, Procore Scheduling, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with Power BI, SQL, or other data analytics and portfolio reporting platforms.
• Understanding of Earned Value Management (EVM), schedule performance metrics, and forecasting methods.
• Proven track record leading large-scale continuous improvement initiatives across diverse regions.
• Ability to design scalable scheduling processes suitable for expansive organizational environments.

Additional Information

The role reports to the Business & Project Controls function and requires close collaboration across multiple departments including Construction, Preconstruction, Cost Controls, Commissioning, Engineering, Design, Global Planning, and Business Intelligence. Amazon is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, valuing distinctive perspectives that drive innovation. Accommodations are available throughout the hiring process for candidates with disabilities.