Senior Planning Manager, Campus Lead - Data Centre

Description

Title: Senior / Associate Planning Manager, Campus Lead
Division: Project Controls and Scheduling

Sector: Data Centre

Location: Buckinghamshire, on-site 2-3 days per week (with Hybrid Working)

Reporting to: Senior Associate / Partner

Why RLB?

At RLB, we live by four simple ideas: Truth, Trust, Together, Tomorrow. Four values that live at the heart of RLB. A place where People Make Progress.

We value your skills, talents and unique perspectives – we think they are priceless.

Bring them to RLB and you’ll be empowered to shape our future and your career in new and meaningful ways.

We’ll give you opportunities to work on some of the most ambitious and exciting projects currently being designed and developed in the built environment sector.

You’ll continue to learn and advance as everyone who works for us is provided with a tailored training programme. Our mentoring and reverse mentoring schemes will enable you to share your expertise while gaining fresh insights.

What makes RLB unique is our inclusive culture. As an independent, employee-owned business, teamwork and collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do. Hybrid and flexible working arrangements and family-friendly policies are just some of the ways we invest in employee wellbeing.

Join us and you will thrive personally as well as professionally.

Introduction to Project Controls & Scheduling

Our dedicated Project Controls & Scheduling team supports projects from initial planning through to completion and operation. We develop and maintain high-quality project schedules aligned with client requirements, providing the insight and predictability needed to support informed and data backed decision-making for successful project delivery.

We work across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on Data Centres and Advanced Technology. Our Planning Managers work closely with clients, advising on project constraints, timelines and programme logic across procurement, design, construction and commissioning, as well as risk mitigation and trend analysis throughout project delivery.

The team has grown considerably in recent years and now comprises over 35 Project Controls Managers and Planners. We are committed to providing our people with rewarding, long-term careers while maintaining a consistently high standard of service for our clients.

Within Data Centres, we work with an enviable client base, from US hyperscale technology clients to UK-based developers across the UK and EMEA. The high level of repeat work we receive reflects the strength of our client relationships and the quality of our service and advice.

Role Overview:

We are currently recruiting a Senior or Associate Planning Manager with proven Data Centre experience for a key project of ours. You will join a client focussed team as overseeing a project campus and schedule management team, the role will be to ensure project schedule standards meet and exceed client standards in relation to quality and deliverable timelines, support and lead the campus schedule team and provide project insights related to project delivery in relation to project controls and schedule management.

The role is an opportunity to develop and drive our Data Centre capability, working on high profile projects in the London, the wider UK and Europe.

While the role will be partially site based in Buckinghamshire, the position is aligned to the wider London based Project Controls & Scheduling team, while also offering hybrid working.

Role Responsibilities:

• Leading a Campus Schedule management team, including Client service management, strategic oversight and line management.
• To lead and oversee the successful delivery of Data Centre Campus with a view to securing repeat business.
• Detailed Audit of GC schedules to ensure schedules are logical, compliant and contains all project Scope.
• Establish robust schedule reporting procedure to ensure streamlined data capture and analysis
• Interviewing Main Contractors, undertaking tender analysis and reporting to clients with recommendations related to schedule submissions.
• Regular reporting to clients and internal client teams.
• Undertaking schedule scenario analysis based on proposed client options.
• Development/evolution of Construction schedules.
• Contract Administration (which requires a good understanding of building contracts).
• Implementation and management of a change contro…