Professional, Project / Programme Execution

JLL; Hyderabad; Presencial; INR 1 800 000 - 3 200 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

JLL is seeking a Project Planning & Controls Lead to drive scheduling, governance, and delivery assurance for data center projects under a PMC model in Hyderabad. You will act as the planning authority, maintain master programs, monitor progress, and provide data-driven insights to support timely decisions.

You will collaborate with Project Managers, contractors, and client stakeholders, ensuring baselines, milestones, and critical paths are clearly defined and managed across multiple sites.

Qualificações

• Experience leading planning & controls for complex projects.
• Strong ability to develop and govern master schedules and baselines.
• Proven track record in scheduling, forecasting, and dashboard reporting.

Responsabilidades

• Lead planning across design, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover.
• Develop and govern integrated master schedules aligning with PMC and client standards.
• Prepare schedule reports, dashboards, and executive summaries for leadership.
• Identify risks to milestones and provide mitigation options.
• Coordinate with contractors and consultants for look-ahead and interface management.

Conhecimentos

Planning & controls

Data center delivery

Scheduling governance

Forecasting & reporting

MS Project / Primavera P6

Power BI visualization

Ferramentas

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Power BI

Descrição da oferta de emprego

JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way .

Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you've got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you're looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.

1. Position Summary

The Project Planning & Controls Lead is responsible for providing planning leadership, schedule governance, and delivery assurance for data center construction and infrastructure projects delivered under a Project Management Consultancy (PMC) model. Acting as the client's planning and controls representative, the role ensures that integrated master schedules, progress reporting, and forecasting frameworks are robust, accurate, and aligned with delivery objectives. The position works closely with Project Managers, Project Directors, contractors, consultants, and client stakeholders to provide clear, data-driven insights that support timely decision-making and delivery certainty across one or multiple mission-critical data center projects.

2. Key Responsibilities

Planning & Controls Leadership

• Lead planning and controls activities across the full project lifecycle, including design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Develop, maintain, and govern integrated master schedules and detailed project programs in alignment with PMC and client standards.
• Establish planning principles, schedule structures, coding, and reporting frameworks across the project portfolio.
• Act as the central authority for schedule integrity, logic, and baseline management.

Schedule Development & Governance

• Review, validate, and integrate contractor and consultant schedules into a coordinated master program.
• Ensure alignment of design, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities across all workstreams.
• Define and manage key milestones, critical paths, and interface dependencies.
• Support phasing strategies, fast-track delivery, and concurrent construction models common to data center projects.

Progress Monitoring, Analysis & Reporting

• Implement consistent progress measurement methodologies across all disciplines and contractors.
• Track progress against baselines, identify variances, and provide forward-looking forecasts.
• Prepare high-quality schedule reports, dashboards, and executive summaries for client and project leadership.
• Highlight risks to milestones and critical paths, with clear mitigation and recovery options.

Risk, Change & Recovery Planning

• Support identification of schedule-related risks and development of mitigation strategies.
• Perform schedule impact assessments for changes, delays, and scope adjustments.
• Support recovery planning, acceleration strategies, and what-if scenario analysis.
• Contribute to risk registers and delivery assurance reviews from a planning perspective.

Delay Analysis, Claims Review & Forensic Support

• Perform schedule delay analysis using appropriate methodologies (e.g., impacted as-planned, time impact analysis, as-built vs. as-planned).
• Review contractor delay notifications, extension of time (EOT) submissions, and time-related claims from a planning and technical perspective.
• Independently assess the validity of delay causes, critical path impacts, and entitlement implications (schedule-focused, non-commercial).
• Support the client and Project Director with objective, data-driven advice related to delay responsibility and mitigation options.
• Maintain robust schedule records and contemporaneous updates to support defensible delay assessments.

Contractor & Consultant Coordination

• Coordinate closely with contractors, subcontractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary consultants.
• Challenge and validate contractor progress updates, logic, sequencing, and forecasts.
• Facilitate planning workshops, look-ahead sessions, and interface coordination meetings.
• Promote consistent planning standards and a collaborative, transparent approach to schedule management.

3. Technical Expertise (Data Center Focus)

• Experience working in mission-critical and data center delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of data center construction sequencing and phased handover strategies.
• Knowledge of commissioning, integrated systems testing (IST), and readiness-for-operations sequencing.
• Familiarity with redundancy-driven sequencing, concurrent builds, and live environment constraints.
• Ability to interpret technical inputs from electrical, mechanical, ICT, and specialist systems into integrated schedules.

4. Tools & Methodologies

• Advanced proficiency in planning and controls tools such as Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Experience with reporting and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI or equiva