Senior Planner: Data Centre Project Scheduler

Mercury Engineering; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury Engineering in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Lead Planner to manage complex construction programmes for data centre and technology projects. You will own the planning lifecycle and drive schedule strategy across the portfolio.

The role requires advanced Primavera P6 skills, strong Earned Value Management knowledge, and the ability to deliver robust baselines, lookahead schedules, and dashboards for senior management.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years’ planning and project controls experience within large-scale construction, engineering, or mission-critical environments, preferably including Data Centre project delivery.
• Strong understanding of the full project lifecycle, from design development, procurement, and construction through to commissioning, handover, and close-out
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6, with the ability to develop, update, maintain and analyse detailed project programmes, lookahead schedules, progress updates, and reporting baselines.
• Strong reporting and analytical skills, including the ability to produce clear programme dashboards, lookahead reports, progress narratives, milestone trackers, constraint logs, and risk summaries.

Responsibilities

• Lead planner across a project or portfolio of projects, owning the full planning lifecycle and driving programme strategy as senior planning authority.
• Ensure planning activities comply with internal standards, client specifications, and contract requirements while improving processes, templates and deliverables.
• Develop and maintain schedules for pre-construction, construction and commissioning using Primavera P6, including WBS, activity coding, calendars and logic.
• Monitor schedule health, KPI trends, tool utilisation, and provide feedback on procedures with recommended enhancements.
• Prepare tender schedules and support estimations with deliverable programmes reflecting methodologies, resource strategies, procurement timelines and milestones.
• Support weekly lookahead planning (1-week/3-week/6-week) with site teams to improve plan reliability and execution.

Skills

Planning & scheduling

Primavera P6

Critical path analysis

EVM reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Primavera P6

Earned Value Management

Job description

Mercury Engineering in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Lead Planner to manage complex construction programmes for data centre and technology projects. You will own the planning lifecycle and drive schedule strategy across the portfolio.

The role requires advanced Primavera P6 skills, strong Earned Value Management knowledge, and the ability to deliver robust baselines, lookahead schedules, and dashboards for senior management.