Senior Planner, Hyperscale Data Centres | Narvik, Norway

Nscale; Oslo; On-site; NOK 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale, based in Norway, seeks an experienced Senior Planner to support the delivery of hyperscale data centre projects. You will take ownership of planning, scheduling, and progress reporting for 100MW+ developments, interfacing with GCs, designers, MEP contractors, and internal stakeholders.

This role offers high autonomy and a clear path to influencing delivery objectives. You will work on-site at our Kvandal campus in Narvik for the project duration, with future assignments possibly located

Qualifications

• 8+ years of planning/scheduling experience for large-scale construction or data centre projects.
• Proven ability to manage complex programmes and analyze critical paths.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop, manage, and maintain project and master construction programmes for hyperscale data centre projects.
• Review, challenge, and manage GC contractor schedules, ensuring alignment with contractual, technical, and commercial requirements.
• On selected projects, build and own the baseline programme; on others, own the GC’s programme as the controlling schedule.
• Monitor progress against the programme, identify variances, critical path impacts, and emerging risks.
• Lead detailed schedule analysis including critical path, float analysis, what-if scenarios, and mitigation planning.
• Proactively identify risks and drive solutions to programme issues with GCs, consultants, and internal teams to prevent delays.
• Produce clear programme reports for senior stakeholders, highlighting risks, opportunities, and recovery strategies.
• Maintain accurate programme data within Primavera P6, Asta Powerproject, and related tools.
• Support change management by assessing schedule impacts from design changes, variations, and accelerations.
• Interface with project management, commercial, design, and construction teams to ensure programme integration.
• Ensure planning outputs reflect best practice for data centre, MEP-intensive, fast-track builds.

Skills

Senior Planning

Scheduling

Education

Engineering degree

Construction Management degree

Tools

Primavera P6

Asta Powerproject

MS Project

Job description

Nscale, based in Norway, seeks an experienced Senior Planner to support the delivery of hyperscale data centre projects. You will take ownership of planning, scheduling, and progress reporting for 100MW+ developments, interfacing with GCs, designers, MEP contractors, and internal stakeholders.

This role offers high autonomy and a clear path to influencing delivery objectives. You will work on-site at our Kvandal campus in Narvik for the project duration, with future assignments possibly located