Planning Engineer – Data Centre Project
Because great projects don’t deliver themselves.

Most construction and engineering job ads will tell you they’re looking for a “self‑starter”, a “team player”, and someone who can “work in a fast‑paced environment”.

This isn’t one of those ads.

We’re looking for a Planning Engineer who genuinely enjoys the craft — someone who gets a quiet satisfaction from turning a mountain of drawings, IFC revisions, contractor inputs and commercial constraints into a schedule that actually makes sense and gets built.

If that sounds like you, keep reading.

What you’ll be doing (the real version)
You’ll be the person the Project Manager relies on when they ask, “Are we actually on track?”
Not the sanitised version. The real answer. The one backed by logic, metrics, data and progress, not wishful thinking.

On a day‑to‑day basis, you’ll:

• Build and develop construction schedules from the high‑level targets and WBS the PM hands over.
• Review contract documentation and flag anything scheduling‑related that could trip us up later.
• Work with the PM to create a fully integrated construction schedule — not a theoretical one, a buildable one.
• Labour‑load and metrics‑load the schedule using the data provided by the Commercial Team.
• Produce trackers, reporting templates, S‑curves and phasing drawings that help everyone else stay aligned.
• Support negotiations with the client or CM team when programme logic becomes… “open to interpretation”.
• Track weekly progress, validate it against the Commercial Team’s numbers, and report what’s really happening.
• Raise risks early — not when they’ve already turned into problems.

You’ll also be the one running the Look‑Ahead meetings, monitoring performance, and telling the story of the project with clean data and straight answers.

What this project actually is
A major data centre build — fast‑paced, tightly sequenced, high‑visibility work where planning isn’t a “support function”.
It’s the backbone that keeps everything else from fragmenting into chaos.

If you like technical complexity, interdisciplinary coordination and delivering for clients who expect things done right and on time, you’ll enjoy this environment.

Who you are
You don’t need to be a Senior Planner — this role is pitched at Planning Engineer level — but you do need experience planning multi‑discipline construction projects. Data centres, pharma, industrial or MEP‑heavy projects all translate well.

You’ll succeed here if you:

• Can communicate clearly — verbally and in reporting.
• Enjoy solving logic problems disguised as construction challenges.
• Like being the person who spots the thing everyone else missed.
• Are comfortable saying, “We have an issue,” before it becomes a crisis.
• Want a role where planning is taken seriously, not treated as admin.

What you’ll get

• A role where your work genuinely influences delivery.
• A team that values planning as a discipline, not a formality.
• Support from a Lead Planner and Planning & Risk Manager who actually want you to succeed.
• Exposure to one of the fastest‑growing sectors in engineering.