Scheduling Manager – Data Centres

Location: Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Employment Type: Full-Time
Reporting To: Project Director

About CTS Group

CTS Group is a leading international design and build contractor specialising in the delivery of mission-critical data centre facilities across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). We combine engineering excellence, innovation, and digital expertise to deliver high-performance, sustainable, and future-ready infrastructure for hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise clients.

With a diverse workforce representing more than 40 nationalities, CTS fosters a collaborative and high-performance culture where technical excellence, safety, innovation, and continuous improvement underpin every project. Alongside our construction capabilities, CTS develops advanced digital solutions and standardised modular infrastructure, enabling faster, smarter, and more efficient data centre delivery.

As our UK operations continue to expand, we are seeking an experienced Scheduling Manager to join one of our flagship data centre projects and play a critical role in driving successful project delivery.

The Role

The Scheduling Manager will be responsible for developing, managing, and controlling project schedules across a major data centre construction programme. Working closely with project leadership, construction teams, design managers, commercial teams, subcontractors, vendors, and client stakeholders, you will ensure that project activities are accurately planned, monitored, and reported throughout the project lifecycle.

This is a key role within the project delivery team, providing strategic planning expertise, programme visibility, and schedule control to support the successful delivery of complex mission-critical infrastructure.

The successful candidate will be highly analytical, proactive, and collaborative, with a strong background in construction planning and data centre, infrastructure, or large-scale construction projects.

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning & Schedule Management

• Develop, maintain, and manage integrated project schedules for large-scale data centre construction projects.

• Establish and monitor key project milestones, critical path activities, programme constraints, and schedule deliverables.

• Ensure project schedules accurately reflect project scope, procurement activities, design deliverables, construction sequencing, commissioning activities, and handover requirements.

• Analyse programme performance and provide recommendations to improve project efficiency and delivery.

• Support baseline programme development and change control processes throughout the project lifecycle.

Programme Monitoring & Controls

• Monitor project progress against approved baselines and identify potential schedule risks and delays.

• Conduct critical path analysis, earned value assessments, and schedule performance reviews.

• Develop recovery plans and mitigation strategies where project milestones or completion dates are at risk.

• Track progress across all disciplines, including Civil, Structural, Architectural (CSA), Mechanical, Electrical, and Commissioning activities.

• Ensure planning data is accurate, up to date, and aligned with project reporting requirements.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Work closely with Project Directors, Construction Managers, Design Managers, Commercial teams, Commissioning teams, and subcontractors to coordinate planning activities.

• Facilitate planning workshops, progress reviews, look-ahead planning sessions, and schedule coordination meetings.

• Gather schedule updates from contractors, suppliers, and internal teams to maintain programme accuracy.

• Act as the primary point of contact for project planning and scheduling matters.

• Support collaborative programme management across multidisciplinary project teams.

Risk Management & Reporting

• Identify programme risks, constraints, and opportunities and proactively communicate concerns to project leadership.

• Produce detailed schedule analyses, progress reports, planning dashboards, and management presentations.

• Develop weekly and monthly planning reports for internal and client stakeholders.

• Track and report programme performance indicators and recovery actions.

• Support project management with forecasting, resource planning, and schedule optimisation.

Continuous Improvement & Planning Excellence

• Promote planning best practices across CTS projects.

• Develop and maintain planning templates, standards, reporting tools, and scheduling methodologies.

• Support lessons-learned reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Contribute to the ongoing development of CTS's planning and project controls capabilities.

• Champion data-driven decision-making and programme transparency across the project team.

About You

Essential Qualifications & Experience

• Degree qualified in Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline.

• Minimum 7 years' experience in project planning, scheduling, or project controls within construction, infrastructure, mission-critical, or industrial environments.

• Proven experience developing and managing complex project schedules on large-scale construction projects.

• Strong proficiency with:

  • Primavera P6

  • Microsoft Project

  • Microsoft Excel

  • Project reporting and dashboard tools

• Excellent understanding of project controls, critical path methodology, schedule risk analysis, and programme management principles.

• Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders across multidisciplinary project teams.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex schedule information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Full professional proficiency in English.

Desirable

• Previous experience delivering hyperscale or enterprise data centre projects.

• Experience working within an EPC, design-build, or mission-critical construction environment.

• Knowledge of commissioning, system turnover, and integrated project delivery methodologies.

• Familiarity with BIM-enabled planning and digital construction tools.

• Understanding of NEC or JCT contract environments.

• Membership of a relevant professional institution such as APM, CIOB, ICE, or PMI.

What We Offer

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering some of the UK's most advanced and technically complex data centre projects. You will work alongside industry-leading professionals, helping drive the planning and successful execution of critical digital infrastructure that powers businesses around the world.

In return, we offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package

• Career progression opportunities within a rapidly growing international business

• Exposure to large-scale hyperscale and mission-critical projects

• Professional development and training opportunities

• Collaborative, diverse, and high-performance working environment

• Opportunity to contribute to the delivery of world-class digital infrastructure

• Long-term career opportunities across CTS's expanding UK and European operations

Eligibility to Work in the UK

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom at the time of application and throughout their employment.

Please note that CTS Group is unable to provide visa sponsorship or support Skilled Worker visa applications for this position. Candidates requiring current or future sponsorship to work in the UK will not be considered.

If you're an experienced Scheduling Manager looking to play a key role in the successful delivery of complex data centre projects, we would welcome your application.