The Director of National Planning & Scheduling sets the vision and standards for how DPR plans and schedules work across the company. Provides enterprise leadership for planning and scheduling to enable reliable, predictable project delivery across the company. Establishes and evolves the company-wide vision, strategy, and governance for planning and scheduling practices, ensuring alignment with operational priorities and execution needs. Partners with executive and functional leaders to embed planning discipline into how work is sequenced, constraints are removed, and progress is communicated across all regions and business units.
Key Responsibilities
- Establishes and leads the enterprise-wide vision, strategy and operating model for planning & scheduling aligned with organizational objectives while fostering cross-functional engagement and accountability.
- Provides leadership and direction to regional planning and scheduling leaders to ensure consistent adoption of standards, practices, and expectations.
- Develops and governs scalable planning systems, workflows, templates, playbooks and performance metrics to improve plan reliability and schedule outcomes.
- Leads cross-functional initiatives that integrate planning and scheduling practices with field operations, quality, Virtual Design and Construction, self-perform work, and prefabrication, while ensuring we provide and continuously elevate best-in-class training across teams to build capability and consistency.
- Oversees tracking and analysis of schedule performance data to identify trends, assess risk, and drive continuous improvement, ensuring we systematically learn from our projects and their challenges and incorporate those lessons as updates to the Best Builder Framework.
- Coaches senior leaders and project teams to strengthen planning behaviors, field adoption and execution discipline.
Travel 50% to jobsites based on project need and timing
Education and Experience
Education Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.
Work Experience
- 15+ years of experience in construction operations, including leading planning and scheduling practices for large, complex projects at scale required.
- Experience developing, administering, and maintaining project plans and schedules using field planning systems such as CPM, pull planning, takt, short interval planning, visual planning and schedule performance measurement required.
- Experience with enterprise-level planning strategies including model-based visual planning, schedule risk analysis, Last Planner System®, and integrated schedule management and reporting solutions preferred.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and coaching experience across diverse teams and stakeholder groups preferred.
Work Environment
Inside - inside environmental conditions or standard office environment
Constantly, 67% - 100%
Outside - outside environmental conditions/no protection from the weather
Frequently, 34% - 66%
Anticipated starting pay range:
$220,000.00- $295,000.00Nothing is more important than your health and wellness. DPR offers a variety of medical, dental, vision and wellness benefits to keep you healthy. Read more about eligibility and available benefits programs
for skilled craft and labor or experienced professionals and recent graduates.
DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.
Working at DPR, you'll have the chance to try new things, explore unique paths and shape your future. Here, we build opportunity together—by harnessing our talents, enabling curiosity and pursuing our collective ambition to make the best ideas happen. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work by our talented teammates and leading news organizations like U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Fast Company and Newsweek.
Explore our open opportunities at www.dpr.com/careers.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related field or equivalent experience
- 15+ years of experience in construction operations including leading planning and scheduling practices
- Experience developing and maintaining project plans and schedules using field planning systems
- Experience with enterprise-level planning strategies such as Last Planner System
- Strong communication and facilitation skills
What We Do
DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor and construction manager specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets.
