Planning Director

Overview

Role Purpose

Key Responsibilities

• Define planning horizons (short-, mid-, long-term) for fiber, mobile, data centers, and smart systems.
• Chair planning review boards; enforce compliance with standards and masterplan objectives.
• Align capacity, resilience, and cybersecurity planning with overall project
• Lead demand forecasting and capacity modelling for fixed, mobile, and data center infrastructure.
• Develop fiber routing and tower siting strategies; validate district connectivity plans.
• Coordinate data center and edge computing, siting and phasing plans.
• Review and approve Networks for DC, MMRs/POPs, duct banks, and right-of-way allocations.
• Integrate planning with SEC power, NWC water, district cooling, and other utilities.
• Provide planning baselines for design and construction teams; monitor adherence.
• Manage change requests, planning deviations, and phasing adjustments.
• Support constructability reviews, sequencing, and co-build opportunities with other disciplines.
• Track delivery progress against planning baselines; report variances.
• Ensure planning compliance with standards for critical facilities
• Integrate sustainability targets (LEED, PUE, renewable energy) into planning milestones.
• Coordinate planning approvals with CST, SEC, NWC, MOMRAH, SDAIA, and other authorities.
• Engage with MNOs, TowerCo, FiberCo, and DC operators for alignment of capacity and rollout plans.
• Represent planning scenarios in client/owner steering committees and governance forums.
• Ensure O&M requirements are embedded into planning (access corridors, bypass routes, redundancy).
• Support Operational Readiness by aligning phasing with training, spares, and operations setup.
• Provide planning input for commissioning, IST schedules, and phased handovers.
• Build and lead planning teams for fiber, mobile, and data centers.
• Mentor planners; establish best practices, planning methodologies, and knowledge-sharing culture.
• Foster collaboration with designers, construction managers, and external consultants.

Qualifications & Experience

• Master’s degree in engineering, ICT, Telecoms, Digital Infrastructure, Urban/Infrastructure Planning, or Project Management; PMP/PRINCE2/Chartered status preferred.
• 20+ years’ experience in ICT, telecoms, fiber deployment, smart city, data center, utilities, and critical infrastructure planning, preferably on city-wide, giga-project, mixed-use, campus, or large infrastructure programs.
• Proven digital infrastructure planning leadership, covering masterplans, phased implementation plans, short/mid/long-term planning horizons, fiber/mobile/DC/smart systems, demand forecasting, capacity modelling, and district connectivity planning.
• Strong multidisciplinary coordination experience, including integration with design, construction, utilities, SEC, NWC, district cooling, authorities, MNOs, tower companies, fiber operators, DC operators, consultants, and contractors.
• Strong planning governance and delivery-control capability, including planning review boards, baseline management, change control, phasing adjustments, progress tracking, risk management.
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