Data Center Senior Planner/Scheduler (Pre-Lease) - Japan

Turner & Townsend; Asia; On-site; PEN 262,000 - 393,000; Full time

Job summary

The Senior Scheduler acts as the programme conscience of the deal team, addressing utilities, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning and energisation, while ensuring all key schedule risks are understood before commitments are made. You will support investment and site selection with independent schedule assurance and robust risk analysis.

Qualifications

• Proven planning experience on data centre, power or major construction programmes.
• Expert Primavera P6 or equivalent, with schedule-quality and risk analysis capability.
• Experience interrogating contractor and developer programmes rather than just maintaining them.
• Clear communication of schedule risk to non-planners: clients, lawyers, executives.

Responsibilities

• Conduct independent schedule due diligence on developer programmes, assessing logic, sequencing, durations and milestones.
• Develop and maintain independent programme assessments and route to Ready for Service for shortlisted opportunities.
• Validate activities and constraints across utilities, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning and energisation.
• Assess delivery readiness against required service dates and identify risks, constraints and opportunities to improve programme outcomes.
• Lead programme review sessions with developers, consultants and internal stakeholders to test schedule credibility.
• Define, monitor and report programme readiness milestones, ensuring commitments are measurable and contractually supportable.

Skills

Planning experience

Primavera P6

Schedule risk analysis

Stakeholder comms

Local language

Education

Relevant degree in engineering or construction

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

Data Center Senior Planner/Scheduler (Pre-Lease) - Japan

• Full-time

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over22,000 peoplein more than 62 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure,energyand natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects andprogrammesas we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities includeprogramme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estateservicesand investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premierprogramme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

The Senior Scheduler owns the programme dimension of every data centre opportunity, challenging whether proposed service dates are genuinely achievable and identifying the path to Ready for Service from day one.

This is not a reporting role. The Planner interrogates developer schedules, tests assumptions, validates critical paths, and translates complex programme risks into clear recommendations for client decision makers. They provide independent schedule assurance throughout the pre lease lifecycle, ensuring commercial decisions are based on realistic delivery outcomes rather than optimistic programme commitments.

The Planner acts as the programme conscience of the deal team, bringing clarity to issues around utilities, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning and energisation, while ensuring all key schedule risks are understood before commitments are made.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct independent schedule due diligence on developer programmes, assessing logic, sequencing, durations, resource assumptions, critical path and milestone credibility.
• Develop and maintain independent programme assessments and route to Ready for Service for shortlisted opportunities.
• Validate cP activities and constraints across utilities, permitting, procurement, construction, commissioning, fit out and power energisation.
• Assess delivery readiness against required service dates and identify risks, constraints and opportunities to improve programme outcomes.
• Review procurement strategies and lead times for critical long lead equipment including transformers, switchgear, generators, cooling systems and associated infrastructure.
• Conduct schedule risk assessments and analysis, quantifying potential impacts to service date commitments.
• Establish and maintain programme assumptions, constraints, risks and mitigation strategies for each opportunity.
• Lead programme review and challenge sessions with developers, consultants and internal stakeholders to test schedule credibility.
• Define, monitor and report programme readiness milestones, ensuring commitments are measurable, realistic and contractually supportable.
• Support commercial negotiations by reviewing programme obligations, milestone definitions, longstop dates and schedule related lease provisions.
• Provide programme assurance, recommendations and executive reporting to support investment, site selection and commercial decision making.
• Monitor progress against committed milestones through the pre lease lifecycle and ensure programme assumptions and risk positions are effectively transferred into delivery teams.
• Capture and maintain programme intelligence, benchmarks, actual durations and lessons learned to improve future assessments and market knowledge.
• Partner with deal teams to ensure programme considerations are fully integrated into client recommendations and project strategies.

Qualifications

• Proven planning experience on data centre, power or major construction programmes
• Expert Primavera P6 or equivalent, with genuine schedule-quality and risk analysis capability
• Experience interrogating contractor and developer programmes rather than just maintaining them
• Understanding of grid connection, permitting and commissioning sequences in their market
• Clear communication of schedule risk to non-planners: clients, lawyers, executives
• Local language capability a significant advantage

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