Senior Operations Maintenance Planner

QTS Realty Trust; Groningen (MN); On-site; USD 69,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

EUR training bursary of 5,250 €

Company car scheme - eligibility

Pension scheme with Allianz

Occupational disability allowance

Voluntary health insurance

Voluntary pet insurance

Job summary

QTS Realty Trust is seeking a Senior Operations Maintenance Planner to lead end-to-end maintenance planning, scheduling integrity, and site readiness for data center campuses. You will balance preventive maintenance, vendor capacity, and site risk to sequence activities safely and uptime-focused.

You will own maintenance calendars, approve or re-sequence tasks, manage backlog health, and ensure adherence to planning standards across internal teams and third-party vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering or similar discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Exhibits excellent interpersonal skills with all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Owns site or multi-building maintenance calendars, including sequencing and prioritization.
• Approves, defers, or re‑sequences preventive maintenance based on risk or site conditions.
• Manages maintenance backlog health, aging, and corrective prioritization.
• Coordinates vendor work schedule and ensures timely execution.
• Enforces planning standards, documentation quality and readiness requirements.
• Identifies vendor‑driven risks and escalates or mitigates proactively.
• Coordinates replenishment priorities when constraints exist.
• Establishes annual drill calendars aligned to site risk profiles.
• Plans drills to meaningfully test readiness and not merely satisfy requirements.
• Provides leadership with a defensible view of site readiness posture.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Organization

Prioritization

Coordination

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering or similar discipline

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 escalate 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 leave5,250 EUR training bursaryCompany car scheme - eligibility requiredPension scheme with AllianzOccupational disability allowanceVoluntary health insuranceVoluntary pet insuranceThis position in bonus eligibleThe 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]