The Data Center Project Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, tracking, and coordinating data center build, upgrade, migration, and infrastructure projects. The role ensures projects are delivered on time, within budget, and according to quality, safety, and operational requirements.
Project Planning & Scheduling
- Develop and maintain detailed project schedules using tools such as Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, or similar.
- Create project work breakdown structures (WBS), milestones, and timelines.
- Monitor project progress and update schedules regularly.
- Identify schedule risks and recommend mitigation plans.
- Coordinate project dependencies across multiple workstreams.
Stakeholder Coordination
- Work closely with project managers, engineers, vendors, contractors, and business stakeholders.
- Facilitate project status meetings and planning sessions.
- Communicate project updates, risks, and issues to leadership.
Resource & Capacity Planning
- Track resource allocation and utilization.
- Coordinate manpower, equipment, and facility requirements.
- Support capacity planning for power, cooling, rack space, network, and compute infrastructure.
Risk & Change Management
- Maintain project risk and issue registers.
- Analyze schedule impacts resulting from scope changes.
- Support change management processes and approvals.
Reporting & Governance
- Prepare weekly and monthly project dashboards.
- Generate schedule performance reports and KPI tracking.
- Support project audits, documentation, and compliance activities.
Vendor Management
- Coordinate with suppliers and contractors on delivery schedules.
- Track procurement activities and equipment lead times.
- Monitor vendor performance against project commitments.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or related discipline.
- 3-8 years of experience in project planning, data center construction, IT infrastructure projects, or PMO functions.
- Experience managing complex project schedules and dependencies.
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and lifecycle management
- PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-SP, or equivalent certification.
- Experience with data center environments.
- Knowledge of power, cooling, networking, servers, storage, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience using:
- Microsoft Project
- Primavera P6
- Smartsheet
- Jira
- Power BI
- Excel
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