Planning Manager

Equinix; Madrid; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Equinix is seeking a Planning Manager based in Madrid to lead the delivery of construction schedule support across our Iberian portfolio. You will manage and coordinate complex schedules across multiple projects, interfacing with Engineering, Design, Construction Management and Commissioning teams onsite.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in leading multi-disciplinary scheduling, strong data analysis skills, and the ability to drive decisions through schedule performance and earned

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex project schedules through full lifecycle.
• Strong collaboration with engineering, design, construction and commissioning teams.
• Excellent communication and data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team responsible for creating, maintaining, and coordinating schedules.
• Interface with clients, general contractors and vendors to align on schedule requirements.
• Manage fully integrated multi-disciplinary schedules across civil, structural, architectural, mech, and elec.
• Provide schedule updates, baseline comparison, and variance analysis to inform decisions.
• Produce data-driven executive insights using layouts, look-ahead, histograms, and S-curves.
• Drive planning workshops and coordinate interfaces between scopes with subject matter experts.
• Ensure adherence to global standards while implementing regional planning processes.

Skills

Project scheduling

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Excel

Job description

Who are we?
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

Who are we?
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.
A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.
A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact.You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.
We are looking for a talented Planning Manager based to join our Marid team. This role presents an exciting opportunity to lead the delivery of construction schedule support across our Iberian portfolio, as well as playing a key role in the evolution of Equinix Project Controls.
Based onsite at our Marid campuses, this role presents an opportunity to become an integral part of our project team and ensure first class delivery of our upcoming Iberian portfolio.
Develop, coordinate, integrate, and manage complex project schedules across a diverse range of initiatives. The ideal candidate will have significant experience of leading and overseeing intricate project schedules throughout their full lifecycle, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams in Engineering, Design, Construction Management, and Commissioning.
Responsibilities:

• Responsible for multiple projects within the Iberian region, lead and developing a team responsible for creating, maintaining, and coordinating design / procurement / construction and commissioning schedules.
• Lead Campus wide project planning efforts interfacing with project team members, clients, general contractors, and vendors, aligning all stakeholders on schedule requirements, and mitigating potential schedule impacts.
• Manage fully integrated multi-disciplinary civil / structural / architectural / mechanical / electrical & instrumentation schedules.
• Report on schedule earned value including critical path, trend analysis highlighting impacts to project milestones.
• Preparing schedule updates and analysis reports, comparing forecast schedule to baseline, identifying schedule variances, evaluating potential resolutions to schedule impacts.
• Extract and analyse specific information from schedules using layouts, filters, look-ahead, labour histograms and S-curves.
• Facilitate and lead schedule planning workshops and reviews, co-ordinate multi-disciplinary team identifying interfaces between scopes of work with the subject matter experts and program team.
• Provide GC schedule assessment and analysis insights to Project Managers to support data driven decision making
• Input to the future direction and evolution of planning and scheduling at Equinix. Proactively contribute expertise and engage with stakeholders to drive fit-for-purpose solutions
• Actively build relationships with our GCs and support/coach to ensure Equinix standards are understood and achieved
• Implement the necessary regional specifics for planning and scheduling processes and deliverables, whilst ensuring a level of consistency with global standards - information gathering and benchmarking, schedule templates, GC requirements, etc.
• Input to design
• Drive the benefits of planning and scheduling at campus level, using data to produce executive insights, identify trends, and support escalations when needed
• Input to best-in‑class customer reporting, placing the customer at the centre of our reporting approach
• Provide internal schedule assurance in support of project funding and approvals process and production of due diligence/funding ask L1 schedules
• Ensure consistency of deliverables, audit compliance and adherence to planning and scheduling process between projects
• Lead planning and scheduling campus level related initiatives - time to market, schedule estimates, benchmarking etc.
• Input to construction productivity tracking initiatives and provide project information supporting such initiatives
• Support the evaluation and adoption of new technology innovations into our construction process and project controls services

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