Planning Manager

Rubix Data Centers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

London office access

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Rubix Data Centers is seeking a Planning Manager to lead integrated scheduling for multi-disciplinary data center projects in the UK. You will manage planning from design through turnover, surface risks early, and partner with delivery teams to ensure on-time performance.

The role requires deep experience with CPM scheduling, Primavera P6, and a hands-on approach to coordinating design, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of planning, scheduling, project controls, or construction delivery experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale data center, mission-critical, infrastructure, or complex construction projects.
• Advanced experience with Primavera P6 and strong understanding of critical path method scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Own integrated project schedules across design, procurement, construction, commissioning and turnover.
• Develop and maintain master schedules; surface risks and determine recovery options.
• Use critical path methods to identify blockers and schedule impacts.
• Track progress against baselines and provide updates on milestones and variances.
• Facilitate planning sessions with internal teams, contractors, and delivery partners.
• Align schedules with scope, procurement plans and key decision points.
• Create scheduling standards, templates and planning tools for scale.

Skills

Planning

Scheduling

Project controls

Construction delivery experience

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

Tools

Primavera P6

Critical Path Method

Job description

Location: Flexible (UK Strongly Preferred)
Start: As soon as possible
Contract: Full Time
Travel: Travel required based on project needs

About Rubix

At Rubix, we design and deliver end-to-end AI data center infrastructure — from site origination and development through to long-term operations. We partner with customers to scale AI with speed, efficiency, and sustainability, backed by secured land, power access, and accelerated delivery models.

What Impact You Will Have

As Planning Manager, you will help Rubix deliver complex data center projects with greater predictability. You’ll build and manage integrated schedules, surface risks early, and keep project teams aligned from planning through commissioning and turnover.

What You’ll Do

• Own integrated project schedules
• Develop and maintain master schedules across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover.
• Use critical path analysis to identify risks, dependencies, and schedule impacts before they become blockers.
• Track progress against baselines and provide clear updates on milestones, slippage, and recovery options.
• Facilitate planning sessions with internal teams, contractors, consultants, vendors, and delivery partners.
• Align project schedules with scope, procurement plans, resource assumptions, and key decision points.
• Create scheduling standards, templates, reporting cadences, and planning tools that can scale across projects.
• Prepare schedule reports, lookaheads, forecasts, and executive updates that make timing risks easy to understand.
• Partner with delivery, design, construction, procurement, cost management, and operations teams.
• Capture lessons learned and use schedule data to improve future planning and delivery performance.

What You’ll Need

• 5+ years of planning, scheduling, project controls, or construction delivery experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale data center, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure, or complex construction projects.
• Advanced experience with Primavera P6 and strong understanding of critical path method scheduling.
• Ability to manage multiple schedules, stakeholders, milestones, and reporting needs at once.
• Willingness to travel to project sites as needed.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Direct experience with hyperscale, colocation, or AI infrastructure data center projects.
• Experience planning projects from early development through commissioning and handover.
• Knowledge of Lean planning, pull planning, 4D planning, earned value, or schedule risk analysis.
• Direct knowledge of data center construction processes and sequencing to be able to build schedules from scratch to detailed versions without detailed input at every stage.
• Comfort building scheduling processes in a high-growth environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to turn complex schedule data into clear recommendations.
• Experience with scheduling techniques and market leading processes available to enhance the process leading to improvements in efficiency and Delivery timelines.

What We Offer

• Exposure to high-impact investment decisions in a rapidly growing AI infrastructure platform
• Opportunity to work across the full asset lifecycle—from origination through operations
• Direct collaboration with senior leadership and cross-functional teams
• A fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with strong growth potential

Rubix offers competitive compensation including base pay, performance incentives, and benefits.

Our job titles may span more than one job level. The actual base pay is dependent on several factors, such as transferable skills, location, work experience, business needs, and market demands. Rubix will have an office in London. Employees within 50 miles radius of central London will be expected to appear in the office up to 4 days per week as determined by their leader.

Our Inclusive Responsibility

Rubix is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any protected category under applicable law.

Rubix does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firms. Candidates submitted without a signed agreement for a specific role will not be eligible for placement fees. Existing agency partners should follow the terms of their agreements.