Planning Lead

About Yondr

Yondr is a disruptor. We challenge convention and simplify complexity. A global developer owner operator and service provider of data centers we deliver complex data center capacity needs for the worlds largest tech companies. Our exponential growth sees us looking for extraordinary people to help accelerate us towards our vision: a tomorrow without constraints.

But we cant do this without you.

Yondr is growing rapidly across the Americas with live and emerging projects in North Virginia Dallas and Toronto alongside further development opportunities in locations including Phoenix Albuquerque and Pennsylvania. As our business scales we are looking for an experienced and proactive Planning Lead to join the team and play a key role in strengthening planning support across our regional portfolio. This is an opportunity to help shape how planning is delivered across a fast-growing business ensuring our site teams and General Contractors are aligned to Yondrs Planning Guidance Project Controls procedures and high standards of delivery.

The Planning Lead will support the successful delivery of complex Data Centre projects from early development through design procurement construction commissioning and handover. Working client-side the role will provide planning scheduling and project controls expertise to ensure programmes are robust realistic fully integrated and aligned with Yondrs commercial technical and operational objectives.

We are looking for a strong highly motivated Planning Lead who is excited by the opportunity to join a growing business influence how we deliver and contribute to a high-performing team. This role will be central to supporting Yondrs 2026 business plan and our ambition to deliver 1.6GW of live Data Centre capacity by 2030.

• Develop maintain and manage integrated master schedules covering design procurement enabling works construction utilities commissioning IST handover and operational readiness activities.
• Review interrogate and challenge General Contractor and supply chain programto confirm logic sequencing scope completeness critical path integrity and alignment with contractual milestones.
• Provide client-side schedule assurance by testing program assumptions validating progress updates and identifying inconsistencies gaps or unrealistic forecasts.
• Monitor project progress against baseline and current approved schedules highlighting variances emerging delays float erosion and potential impacts to key milestones.
• Lead critical path float look-ahead scenario and recovery analysis to support informed decision-making by the client and wider project leadership team.
• Support procurement and tender processes by reviewing bidder program phasing strategies logistics assumptions and schedule-related submissions.
• Work closely with project managers development managers design teams commercial teams consultants utilities providers contractors and operations stakeholders to maintain an accurate view of program performance.
• Prepare clear concise and accurate program reports for internal governance executive reporting project reviews and stakeholder updates.
• Support risk management activities by identifying schedule risks assessing potential impacts and developing mitigation or acceleration strategies.
• Contribute to change control delay analysis and schedule impact assessments ensuring changes are properly evaluated and reflected in program forecasts.
• Attend project meetings planning workshops contractor reviews and site progress sessions providing constructive challenge and practical planning guidance.
• Promote planning best practice schedule quality standards and consistent project controls processes across the clients data center portfolio.

• Bachelors degree in construction management engineering project management quantity surveying or a related construction discipline.
• 10 years experience in planning scheduling or project controls within the data centre industry or a similarly fast-paced construction sector.
• Strong client-side planning and project controls experience ideally representing an owner developer or end client on major capital projects.
• Experience reviewing and challenging General Contractor programmes including logic sequencing critical path float constraints and recovery plans.
• Proven experience on large-scale mission-critical data centre advanced manufacturing pharmaceutical semiconductor infrastructure or complex MEP-led projects.
• Strong understanding of design procurement construction commissioning IST and handover sequencing.
• Experience preparing executive-level schedule reports including milestone tracking critical path commentary variance analysis and risk or opportunity summaries.
• Ability to lead planning workshops programme reviews and schedule assurance sessions with contractors consultants and internal stakeholders.
• Knowledge of delay analysis change control and schedule impact assessment with the ability to assess programme risk and support mitigation planning.
• Experience working with baseline schedules progress updates lookaheads recovery programmes and scenario planning.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced growing international business with evolving processes and high levels of stakeholder engagement.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex programme information into clear actionable insights for senior stakeholders.
• Professional certification or membership such as AACE PMI-SP CIOB RICS PMP or equivalent would be beneficial but is not essential.
• Proficient in Primavera P6 with the ability to build review maintain and analyse complex integrated schedules.
• Experience with data-led reporting schedule quality QSRA and schedule integrity tools such as Power BI Acumen Fuse ScheduleReader Deltek Acumen Safran Primavera Risk Analysis or similar.

At Yondr we want to enhance the diversity equity inclusion and belonging of our workforce to reflect the world we live in. Our roles are potential opportunities for everyone; all interested parties regardless of nationality race ethnicity religion age sexual orientation or gender are welcome to apply. We ensure all candidates have equitable access and consideration throughout the hiring process.

Yondr is committed to fostering a welcoming safe and inclusive work environment. We provide support through our benefits which are inclusive of all backgrounds.