Senior Data Center Maintenance Planner & Uptime Lead

QTS Data Centers; Groningen; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Pension plan

Health insurance

Pet insurance

Training bursary

25 days leave

Disability allowance

Job summary

QTS Data Centers in Groningen seeks a Senior Operations Maintenance Planner who owns end-to-end maintenance scheduling, uptime readiness, and risk-based prioritization across sites and vendors.

You will balance preventive maintenance with site conditions, enforce planning standards, and drive drill calendars while coordinating with internal teams and third-party contractors to protect availability and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering or similar discipline or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years’ experience in data center, mission-critical environment, or maintenance role.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.
• PM certifications (e.g., PMP) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of site or multi-building maintenance calendars, including sequencing and prioritization.
• Authority to approve, defer, or re-sequence preventive maintenance based on risk, readiness, or site conditions.
• Ownership of all maintenance demands across buildings and systems.
• Accountability for ensuring maintenance execution aligns with uptime protection strategies, not just compliance.
• Ownership of maintenance backlog health, aging, and corrective prioritization.
• Oversight of vendor work schedule and ensuring acceptable timeline to proceed.
• Enforce planning standards, documentation quality, and readiness requirements.
• Holding vendors accountable to schedule adherence, SLA performance, and scope clarity.
• Identifying vendor-driven risks and escalating or mitigating them proactively.
• Identify critically based inventory on system risk and long lead supply chain demand.
• Ensuring inventory availability is aligned with planned maintenance and known vulnerabilities.
• Exercising judgment to elevate gaps that create unacceptable execution risk and implement solutions.
• Coordinating replenishment priorities when constraints exist.
• Establishing annual drill calendars aligned to site-specific risk profiles.
• Determining drill sequencing, scope, and coordination across buildings.
• Ensuring drills are planned to meaningfully test readiness, not simply satisfy requirements and executed.
• Ownership of reporting drill completion and adherence.
• Identifying corrective actions and ensuring closure through disciplined follow-up.
• Providing leadership with a clear, defensible view of site readiness posture.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Vendor management

Project coordination

Communication skills

Multi-tasking

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering or similar

Tools

ServiceNow

Smartsheet

Job description

QTS Data Centers in Groningen seeks a Senior Operations Maintenance Planner who owns end-to-end maintenance scheduling, uptime readiness, and risk-based prioritization across sites and vendors.

You will balance preventive maintenance with site conditions, enforce planning standards, and drive drill calendars while coordinating with internal teams and third-party contractors to protect availability and performance.