Planning Lead — AI Data Center Projects

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited; Badajoz; On-site; EUR 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% bonus

Relocation package

Medical, dental and insurance coverage

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Planning Lead for a global AI infrastructure project in Spain, based in Badajoz. You will own the Integrated Master Schedule, coordinate multiple contractor programs, monitor progress, and translate milestones into CAPEX and cash flow forecasts.

The role collaborates with Construction, Procurement, Cost Control, Finance, and Commissioning, ensuring robust scheduling and risk management from design through handover.

Qualifications

• Strong planning and controls in complex, multi-contractor construction environments.
• Advanced Primavera P6 experience with integrated schedules, baselines, progress updates, forecasting.
• Understanding of CAPEX-intensive projects and the relationship between programme, procurement, progress, cost forecasts and cash flow.
• Experience integrating long-lead equipment, construction, energisation, commissioning and handover activities.
• Fluent English with strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) covering design, procurement, construction, utilities, energisation, commissioning and handover.
• Integrate and challenge contractor and vendor schedules across multiple disciplines and packages.
• Monitor physical progress against baseline and ensure consistent progress measurement across contractors.
• Perform critical path, schedule variance and delay analysis, identifying constraints and risks.
• Develop mitigation plans with stakeholders and recovery actions where progress deviates.
• Coordinate short- and mid-term planning, including look-ahead schedules and interfaces.
• Translate schedules into reliable CAPEX phasing and cash flow forecasts.
• Provide schedule-driven inputs to Cost Control and Finance for CAPEX timing.
• Integrate procurement and long-lead equipment activities through handover.
• Prepare progress reporting covering milestones, baseline performance and forecast completion.
• Drive consistent planning and forecasting standards across the project.

Skills

Project planning

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Fluent English

Tools

Primavera P6

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Planning Lead for a global AI infrastructure project in Spain, based in Badajoz. You will own the Integrated Master Schedule, coordinate multiple contractor programs, monitor progress, and translate milestones into CAPEX and cash flow forecasts.

The role collaborates with Construction, Procurement, Cost Control, Finance, and Commissioning, ensuring robust scheduling and risk management from design through handover.