Yondr Group

Yondr Group

Planning Lead

Aldie, Virginia, United States · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2 days ago
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About the role

  • 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.
  • 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 Yondr's Planning Guidance, Project Controls procedures and high standards of delivery.
  • Working client-side, the role will provide planning, scheduling and project controls expertise to ensure programmes are robust, realistic, fully integrated and aligned with Yondr's commercial, technical and operational objectives.

Responsibilities

  • The Planning Lead will support the successful delivery of complex Data Centre projects from early development through design, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover.
  • This role will be central to supporting Yondr's 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.
  • 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.
  • Support risk management activities by identifying schedule risks, assessing potential impacts and developing mitigation or acceleration strategies.
  • A global developer, owner operator and service provider of data centers, we deliver complex data center capacity needs for the world's largest tech companies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, project management, quantity surveying or a related construction discipline.
  • Strong understanding of design, procurement, construction, commissioning, IST and handover sequencing.
  • 10+ years' experience in planning, scheduling or project controls within the data centre industry or a similarly fast-paced construction sector.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Nice to have

  • Strong client-side planning and project controls experience, ideally representing an owner, developer or end client on major capital projects.

Benefits

  • Our exponential growth sees us looking for extraordinary people to help accelerate us towards our vision: a tomorrow without constraints.

Company info

  • 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.
  • 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.
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