Senior Data Center Planner – Scheduling & Controls

Turner & Townsend International Limited; Doha; On-site; QAR 330,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Planner to join our data centre team in Qatar. Lead strategic commissions, integrate multiple packages into master schedules, and provide reliable scheduling insights for key decisions. Extensive experience with Primavera and MS Project is required.

This role focuses on planning strategy, risk mitigation, and coordinating cross-disciplinary inputs to ensure on-time delivery on high-profile hyperscale data centre projects in Doha and beyond.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in project planning and scheduling.
• Experience on hyperscale data centre projects from inception to completion.
• Expert use of MS Project and Primavera (P3/P5/P6) for complex schedules.
• Strong capability in resource loading, cost/schedule integration, and baseline management.

Responsibilities

• Implement scheduling strategy plans and procedures reflecting company and contractor roles.
• Review and monitor detailed Primavera schedules with WBS, relationships, constraints, and resources.
• Conduct schedule analysis, forecasts, and performance tracking (SPI, CPI, Earned Value).
• Prepare regular progress reports for management and client.
• Develop mitigation plans and respond to EOT claims with defense reports.
• Coordinate inputs from vendors, engineering, and construction into the master schedule.

Skills

Project planning

Scheduling

Resource loading

Cost integration

Baseline management

Status reporting

PMI familiarity

Leadership

Communication

Tools

MS Project

Primavera P3

Primavera P5

Primavera P6

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Planner to join our data centre team in Qatar. Lead strategic commissions, integrate multiple packages into master schedules, and provide reliable scheduling insights for key decisions. Extensive experience with Primavera and MS Project is required.

This role focuses on planning strategy, risk mitigation, and coordinating cross-disciplinary inputs to ensure on-time delivery on high-profile hyperscale data centre projects in Doha and beyond.