Planning Lead – Data Centre Projects (Amsterdam)
Pay: €60,000.00-€90,000.00 per year
Job Description:
Planning Lead – Data Centre Projects (Amsterdam)
We are seeking a Planning Lead to join a Data Centre team in Amsterdam.
The Planner supports project teams by developing, managing, and monitoring programmes across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover stages. The role ensures projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and in line with contractual, commercial, and compliance requirements. Working collaboratively with project managers, engineers, and commercial teams, the Planner provides accurate programme information, identifies risks and opportunities, and supports decision-making through robust reporting and analysis.
Key Responsibilities
Programme Development & Control
* Lead the development of baseline contract programmes, ensuring full logic links and a clear critical path using Primavera P6.
* Prepare construction target programmes that identify opportunities for efficiency and improvement.
* Develop tender event programmes for subcontractor procurement, including design release and lead-in activities.
* Maintain and manage programme documentation within a Common Data Environment (CDE).
* Create phasing plans to illustrate build sequences, logistics, and phasing strategies.
* Collaborate with project teams to develop construction methodologies that clearly demonstrate sequencing and safe delivery.
* Support preparation of project preliminaries, including staff resource planning, logistics, and temporary works.
* Engage with the supply chain to incorporate design deliverables, lead-in times, construction durations, and resource requirements.
* Identify programme risks and opportunities, incorporating mitigation strategies, float, and time risk allowances.
Reporting, Progress & As-Built Information
* Develop and monitor tracking schedules to validate subcontractor programmes.
* Produce as-built programmes, highlighting deviations from the baseline.
* Provide input into change requests, advising on programme impacts and supporting timely approvals.
* Use 2D/3D/4D phasing information to represent current programme status and progress.
* Produce validated output rates to track live project progress and feed lessons learned into future tenders.
* Undertake peer reviews of programmes to ensure quality, accuracy, and consistency across projects.
Management & Leadership
* Report regularly to regional planners and project leadership on programme status, risks, and progress.
* Support and mentor assistant and graduate planners, carrying out performance and development reviews.
* Lead and coordinate planning and programme management activities during pre-construction and on-site phases.
* Contribute to assessments of programme entitlements under relevant contracts (e.g. FIDIC, NEC, JCT) in collaboration with commercial and project teams.
* Lead weekly and monthly reporting of programme status to project stakeholders.
* Ensure quality and consistency in all programme documents prepared under their responsibility.
* Benchmark programme durations using subcontractor input, previous project data, and team consultation