Data Centre Planning Lead: Strategy, Scheduling & Delivery

Currie & Brown; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 268,000 - 469,000; Full time

Job summary

Currie & Brown is seeking a Planning Manager for a large-scale Data Centre project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. You will support project leaders, coordinate multi-discipline planning, and drive progress reporting.

The role requires advanced Primavera P6 use, MSP certification, and a decade of delivery experience, preferably in the Middle East. Strong writing, client-facing skills and a proactive, collaborative approach are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of technical delivery experience in villas and townhouses projects.
• Experience working on high-rise projects, fit-outs, testing and commissioning and tenancy co-ordination.
• Post-contract experience in handover and final accounts.
• Middle East experience essential.
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills.
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute.
• A team player with a 'can-do' attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible.

Responsibilities

• Developing an overall target programme with multiple stakeholder inputs and activities including design, procurement, permitting and approvals, construction, testing, commissioning, handover, across multiple workstreams
• Preparing 'what-if' scenarios
• Reviewing design consultants' and contractors' baseline programmes
• Monitoring and reporting all programme-related activities
• Reviewing resource and cost loaded baseline programmes
• Providing assessment of all sequencing and durations of construction activities
• Monitoring the planning and project controlling works for conformance with project procedures
• Reviewing contractors' lookahead schedules and weekly reports
• Preparing and finalising weekly and monthly progress report submissions to the client
• Liaising and co-ordinating with the contractor and the client
• Attending all necessary meetings with the contractor and the client
• Reviewing and analysing contractor's claims and preparing recommendations reports
• Undertaking Primavera schedule tracking for progress updates

Skills

Primavera P6

MSP

Education

BSc in construction management, engineering, architecture, planning, management information system or equivalent

APM/CIOB/PMP accreditation

Job description

Currie & Brown is seeking a Planning Manager for a large-scale Data Centre project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. You will support project leaders, coordinate multi-discipline planning, and drive progress reporting.

The role requires advanced Primavera P6 use, MSP certification, and a decade of delivery experience, preferably in the Middle East. Strong writing, client-facing skills and a proactive, collaborative approach are essential.