Senior Operations Maintenance Planner

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

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 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.

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. Please contact us to request an accommodation on [e-mail]