Planning Manager

Rubix; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Rubix is seeking a Planning Manager to lead integrated schedules for complex data center projects, from planning through turnover, with a focus on predictability and risk management. You will surface risks early, coordinate across design, procurement, and construction, and drive scheduling excellence to support rapid delivery of critical infrastructure.

The role emphasizes strong communication, multi-team alignment, and the ability to travel to project sites as needed, with a flexible UK-based

Qualifications

• 5+ years of planning, scheduling, project controls, or construction delivery experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale datacenter, 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.

Responsibilities

• Own integrated project 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 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.

Skills

Primavera P6

Critical path scheduling

Cross-functional coordination

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Location: Flexible (UK Strongly Preferred)
Start: As soon as possible
Contract: Full Time
Travel: Travelrequiredbased 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.

WhatYou’llDo

Own integrated project schedules

• Develop andmaintainmaster schedules across design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover.
• Use critical path analysis toidentifyrisks, dependencies, and schedule impacts before they become blockers.
• Track progress against baselines and provide clear updates on milestones, slippage, and recovery options.

Bring structure to planning

• 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 withdelivery, design, construction, procurement, cost management, and operations teams.
• Capture lessons learned anduseschedule data to improve future planning and delivery performance.

WhatYou’llNeed

• 5+ years of planning, scheduling, project controls, or construction delivery experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale datacenter, 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 detailedversions without detailed input at every stage.
• Comfort building scheduling processes in a high-growth environment.
• Strong communicationskills and the ability to turn complex schedule data into clear recommendations.
• Experience withscheduling techniques and market leading processesavailableto enhance the processleading toimprovements in efficiency andDelivery 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 withstrong growthpotential

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 onseveralfactors, such as transferable skills, location, work experience, businessneeds,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.