Strategic Planning Manager, AI Data Center Ops

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

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