Senior Operations Maintenance Planner

qtsdatacenters; Groningen; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Training bursary 5,250 EUR

Company car scheme - eligibility

Pension scheme

Disability allowance

Voluntary health insurance

Voluntary pet insurance

Bonus eligible

Job summary

qtsdatacenters is seeking a Senior Operations Maintenance Planner to own end-to-end maintenance planning, schedule integrity and site readiness for assigned campuses. You will balance preventive maintenance, vendor capacity and risk to ensure uptime and safe execution.

The role challenges inputs, adjusts timing, escalates risk, and enforces planning discipline across internal teams and third‑party vendors to deliver stable, predictable operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering or equivalent.
• 3+ years in data center, mission critical environment, or maintenance roles.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Own site or multi-building maintenance calendars and prioritization.
• Approve, defer, or re-sequence preventive maintenance based on risk.
• Own maintenance demands across buildings and systems.
• Ensure maintenance aligns with uptime protection strategies.
• Manage maintenance backlog health, aging and prioritization.
• Oversee vendor work schedule and timely execution.
• Enforce planning standards, documentation and readiness.
• Hold vendors accountable for schedule adherence and scope clarity.
• Identify vendor-driven risks and escalate or mitigate them.
• Ensure inventory aligns with planned maintenance and vulnerabilities.
• Elevate gaps creating execution risk and implement solutions.
• Coordinate replenishment priorities when constraints exist.
• Establish annual drill calendars aligned to site risk.
• Determine drill sequencing, scope and cross-building coordination.
• Ensure drills test readiness meaningfully and are executed.
• Report drill completion and adherence, and close corrective actions.

Skills

Communication skills

Organization

Multi-tasking

Coordination

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ServiceNow

Smartsheet

CMMS platforms

Job description

The Senior Operations Maintenance Planner has end‑to‑end accountability for maintenance planning, schedule integrity, and operational readiness for assigned sites or campuses. The role balances preventive maintenance requirements, vendor capacity, site risk posture, and operational constraints to ensure maintenance and drill activities are sequenced and executed safely, consistently, and without undue risk to uptime .

The Planner actively challenges inputs, adjusts timing, and escalates risk based on real‑time site conditions-enforcing planning discipline, standardization, and risk‑based prioritization across internal teams and third‑party vendors to identify and support stable, predictable operations.

Essential Duties & 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 implementing 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering or similar discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Three or more years' of professional experience in data center, mission critical environment, or other maintenance role.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project management experience and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications.
• Prior experience working in mission critical data center environments.
• Experience with the following software tools: ServiceNow, Smartsheet, or other CMMS platforms.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Exhibits excellent interpersonal skills with all levels of the organization.
• Strong organization, multi-tasking, and prioritization teamwork skills.
• Strong coordination skills between multiple stakeholders, third‑party contractors, consultants and clients.

Total Rewards:

• 25 days annual leave
• 5,250 EUR training bursary
• Company car scheme - eligibility required
• Pension scheme with Allianz
• Occupational disability allowance
• Voluntary health insurance
• Voluntary pet insurance
• This position in bonus eligible

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by QTS in its sole discretion.

We provide individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law.