Senior Campus Planning Manager

Echelon Data Centres; Dublin; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Echelon Data Centres is seeking a Senior Campus Planning Manager in Dublin. The role involves providing leadership and assurance over multi-project schedules, ensuring credible and risk-aware timelines. You will manage the Integrated Master Schedule across various data centre projects and provide hands-on scheduling support during transitions.

With over 12 years of planning experience and significant data centre exposure required, this role is crucial for maintaining project integrity and timely delivery. The company values inclusivity and welcomes diverse applicants.

Qualifications

• 12–15+ years of experience in planning/scheduling.
• Proven experience on Hyperscale or colocation data centres.
• Extensive Primavera P6 expertise required.

Responsibilities

• Own the development of the Integrated Master Schedule across projects.
• Govern developer planning requirements ensuring compliance.
• Lead detailed contractor programme reviews.

Skills

Planning/Scheduling Experience

Data Centre Exposure

Primavera P6 Expertise

Analytical Skills

Collaboration

Education

12–15+ years in Planning/Scheduling

Experience in Hyperscale or Colocation Data Centres

Tools

Primavera P6

Power BI

Job description

About the Company

Echelon Data Centres was established in 2017 by the main principal of Aldgate Developments, a leading commercial property developer and owner of major commercial office buildings in Central London and Dublin. The objective was developing, operating, and owning a network of large-scale, responsibly designed, sustainably powered data centre campuses across the world to meet the rapidly expanding global demand for hyperscale data processing and storage solutions.

Echelon currently has seven data centre facilities either operational or in development across Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Spain with a combined capacity of approximately 1.25 GW. The recent acquisition of a prime 37‑acre site in Italy marks the next step of Echelon’s expansion into Continental Europe.

The Role

The Senior Campus Planning Manager provides developer‑side leadership and assurance over schedules across multiple concurrent data centre projects. Reporting to the Director of Planning & Scheduling, the role is responsible for integrating, governing, and validating project and contractor programmes to ensure schedules are credible, risk‑aware, and suitable for executive decision‑making. The role owns and manages the Integrated Master Schedule across multiple projects, leads contractor programme governance, manages schedule risk and cross‑project interfaces, and translates complex schedule data into clear, decision‑grade insights for senior leadership.

It also provides hands‑on interim scheduling support to projects during early phases or periods of resourcing transition, ensuring continuity and alignment across the wider programme. The position plays a critical role in maintaining baseline integrity, forecast confidence, and delivery assurance across the project portfolio, supporting informed decisions and on‑time delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own the development, maintenance, and integrity of the Integrated Master Schedule across multiple concurrent projects (data centre projects, energy centres, substations etc.) covering development, permitting, procurement, early construction, long‑lead activities, construction, Cx and handover.
• Implement, and enforce schedule standards, including WBS structures, activity coding, calendars, constraints, and milestone frameworks.
• Govern developer planning requirements for all contractors and consultants, ensuring consistency and compliance across the portfolio.
• Lead detailed contractor programme reviews and acceptance processes, assessing logic integrity, critical path credibility, float usage, progress measurement rules, and interface sequencing.
• Act as a senior scheduling authority, challenging non‑credible programmes, unrealistic durations, and milestone‑driven logic when required.
• Embed schedule risk considerations into baselines, updates, and forecasts, including mitigation sequencing and scenario analysis.
• Lead schedule risk analysis activities, including QSRA and P‑value assessments where required.
• Govern standardised progress measurement methodologies across all work packages and contractors.
• Review, challenge, and validate contractor schedule updates prior to incorporation into the Integrated Master Schedule.
• Analyse and report on critical and near‑critical path movement, float erosion, and milestone forecast variance, with a clear focus on forward‑looking risk.
• Act as the single source of truth for cross‑package and cross‑project schedule interfaces and dependencies.
• Proactively identify and drive resolution of interface risks across CSA, MEP, commissioning, utilities, and phased handovers.
• Translate complex scheduling information into clear, decision‑grade insights for senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Prepare and present milestone dashboards, critical path narratives, scenario comparisons, and recovery or acceleration options.
• Maintain baseline integrity and enforce schedule change control processes across all projects.
• Assess time impacts arising from scope change, design development, and external constraints, providing robust schedule analysis.
• Support entitlement and change discussions with fact‑based, evidence‑driven schedule assessments.
• Provide hands‑on scheduling leadership to projects during early development phases, mobilisation, or periods before dedicated planning resources are appointed.
• Develop initial project schedules covering development, permitting, procurement, early construction, and long‑lead activities.
• Ensure continuity of scheduling governance and alignment with the Integrated Master Schedule during resourcing transitions.
• Oversee structured handover of schedules to permanent project planning resources, ensuring assumptions, constraints, risks, and interfaces are clearly documented.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to planners across multiple projects.
• Contribute to the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of planning standards, governance frameworks, and PMO maturity.
• Support resourcing and capability development within the scheduling function as required.
• Facilitate multi‑discipline planning and integration workshops to align logic, assumptions, sequencing, and risk across teams and contractors.
• Provide scheduling input to constructability and value engineering reviews, ensuring programme recommendations reflect realistic build sequences.
• Monitor and report on schedule performance metrics, such as SPI and other leading indicators, supporting integrated performance reporting.
• Engage routinely with project teams and delivery partners to coordinate schedule inputs, resolve discrepancies, and align execution plans.
• Support the development and enhancement of scheduling tools, dashboards, and reporting solutions to improve visibility and decision‑making (e.g. BI integration).

Essential Skills and Competencies

• 12–15+ years of experience in planning/scheduling, with significant 8+ years data centre exposure.
• Proven experience on Hyperscale or colocation data centres, Energy centres / substations, and multi‑contract, fast‑track programmes.
• Demonstrated General Contractor or developer‑side / client‑representative experience.
• Extensive Primavera P6 expertise (enterprise‑level use).
• Experience integrating multiple contractor schedules into a single IMS.
• Strong understanding of MEP delivery including commissioning logic.
• Demonstrated expertise in establishing and enforcing robust schedule coding structures and governance standards across multiple projects and contractors.
• Advanced capability in analysing and interpreting critical and near‑critical paths, including understanding how logic changes, sequencing decisions, and float ownership impact forecast outcomes for forensic schedule principles.
• Proven experience embedding schedule risk considerations into planning and forecasting, moving beyond deterministic dates to probabilistic outcomes with progress validation methodologies.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of the commercial and delivery implications of schedule decisions, including how programme logic, sequencing, and change impact cost, risk exposure, and contractual commitments.
• Strong collaboration and teamwork with multidisciplinary groups.
• Flexibility and adaptability to changing requirements.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, and organisational skills.
• Results‑driven approach to maintain high‑quality service.

Desirable

• Campus‑level or portfolio‑level schedule ownership.
• Formal schedule risk analysis experience (QSRA, P50/P70/P90).
• Exposure to claims, change control, or dispute avoidance.
• Experience working across multiple jurisdictions and regulatory environments.
• Power BI / Analytics proficiency.
• Experience supporting investment or funding milestones.

Legal Notice

Echelon‑DC is an inclusive organisation, and we actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We welcome all applications from a wide range of candidates. Selection for roles will be based on individual merit alone. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in the employee selection process, please contact People and Culture Team ([e-mail]) directly.