Planning Manager (Infrastructure/Data Centre)

Overview

Planning and programme schedules

• Develop and manage master schedules from inception through commissioning and handover; establish planning procedures, standards, and governance.
• Lead planning across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and close-out, aligning execution plans and integrating stakeholders' schedules.
• Develop Level 1–5 schedules, baseline schedules, and revisions; integrate approvals, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness.

Data centre planning and controls

• Develop construction and commissioning schedules for hyperscale and colocation data centres.
• Coordinate schedules for electrical infrastructure, UPS, generators, MV/LV distribution, chilled water, CRAH/CRAC, BMS, fire protection, and network infrastructure.
• Manage integrated systems testing and commissioning; monitor energization, systems integration, client acceptance, and go-live milestones.

Monitoring, risk, and claims

• Measure progress, monitor critical paths and milestones, identify deviations, produce corrective actions, and issue weekly and monthly reports.
• Report schedule performance, planned versus actual progress, earned value, critical path, productivity, procurement, and risk exposure.
• Assess schedule risks and delays; lead mitigation workshops and develop recovery, acceleration, simulation, and scenario plans.
• Support claims and dispute work, including extension-of-time, delay, disruption, acceleration, forensic planning, and arbitration support.

Project controls and stakeholders

• Align schedule, cost, procurement, and resource plans; integrate planning data into dashboards and support forecasting and risk management.
• Lead client and project schedule reviews, interface with consultants, contractors, suppliers, and authorities, and present project health assessments.
• Support bid submissions and project pursuits with planning expertise.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in civil, mechanical, or electrical engineering; construction management; project management; or a related construction engineering discipline.
• A master's degree in project management, an MBA, or an MSc in construction management is preferred.