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 world’s 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 can’t do this without you.

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. 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 Yondr’s 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 Yondr’s 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 Yondr’s 2026 business plan and our ambition to deliver 1.6GW of live Data Centre capacity by 2030.

Main Responsibilities

• 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 program to 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.