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Planning Manager

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In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
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In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
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Lead scheduling and planning for data centre projects from mobilization to handover. Monitor and control baseline schedules, manage critical path and recovery plans, coordinate MEP/BMS/IT/civil/vendor teams, forecast resources and long‑lead materials, drive commissioning readiness, and produce dashboards, S‑curves and MIS reports.
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Job Title

Planning Manager

Job Description Summary

This role ensures timely completion of a data centre project by controlling schedules, managing interfaces, tracking risks, aligning resources and driving execution toward commissioning readiness and handover.

Job Description

About the Role:

  • Develop, monitor & control project schedule from mobilization to handover.
  • Track progress vs baseline, manage critical path and prepare recovery plans.
  • Coordinate with MEP, BMS, IT, civil and vendor teams for milestone achievement.
  • Lead resource forecasting, long-lead material planning and commissioning readiness.
  • Generate dashboards, S-curves, MIS reports and maintain planning documentation.

About You:

  • Should have 5+ years in Data Centre projects and overall experience of 12+ years
  • Should have experience in using MSP software.
  • Diploma/ B E in Civil Engineering
  • Should have completed end to end process of at least 3 data centres

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;

  • Being part of a growing global company;
  • Career development and a promote from within culture;
  • An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.
We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

 

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.

We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.










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