Planner

at  Vantage Data Centers

À PROPOS DE VANTAGE DATA CENTERS

Vantage s’engage à être un lieu de travail d’inclusion, d’équité, de respect et d’acceptation. Nous célébrons la diversité et cherchons intentionnellement des occasions d’apprendre des expériences de chacun.
Vantage Data Centers alimente, refroidit, protège et connecte la technologie des plus grands joueurs hyperscale, des fournisseurs de solutions infonuagiques et des grandes entreprises. Présente dans six marchés en Amérique du Nord et six en Europe, Vantage innove dans la conception des centres de données pour offrir des gains spectaculaires en termes de fiabilité, d’efficacité et de durabilité ainsi que des environnements flexibles qui peuvent évoluer aussi vite que le marché l’exige. Vantage connaît une croissance exponentielle grâce à ses installations nouvelles jumelées à ses acquisitions à travers l’Amérique du Nord et l’Europe.
Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscale’s, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across markets in North America, Europe and APAC. Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.
Construction Department
The Construction team is responsible for the entire process flow of delivering the physical data centers from shovel ready state through commissioning, working with Sales, Operations, and management along the way. Construction implements and executes upon the work product developed by the Development & Engineering (D&E) team. The team also manages Vantage’s build partners to success through technical feedback and review, and actively participating in review of schedule and budget. Many times, a role like this at other companies is purely oversight. One thing that distinguishes Vantage is that our construction teams are given the responsibility and authority to directly drive the process. When compared to external resources, our internal team can ensure the key stakeholders are engaged in the decision-making process to align long-term operational sustainability with value engineering and cost metrics to deliver products aligned with corporate goals. This approach empowers each member of the team to drive high- impact decisions and even more impactful results.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Vantage is looking for ambitious, detail-oriented, hands-on Schedulers in EMEA to support our portfolio of projects during Construction, starting with strategic program review, health check and reporting through the General Contractor selection process & procurement through Commissioning to project close out. You will join the Construction team and provide professional scheduling capabilities, using your experience and VDC’s procedures to create, critically assess and report on project schedules. You will be expected to guide and support the project team’s decision making, ensure schedule best practice and VDC planning processes are followed. This role is based in Milan .
Because there are multiple roles available the job functions and duties may vary slightly from that listed below. However, all candidates will be expected to understand and where required be able to perform the below functions and duties as part of their role.

Essential Job Functions/Duties

• Supporting the development of early project schedules, working closely with the New Side Development teams to build reliable schedules based upon known benchmarking (both internal and external)
• Contribute to the development of policies and procedures for scheduling
• Support teams in assessing General Contractor (GC) schedule capability and competency in advance of signing contracts
• Support the onboarding of GCs to ensure understanding of and compliance with the Vantage Data Centre (VDC) Contractor schedule specification
• Responsible for project schedule health checks and general schedule quality assurance against GC developed schedules and working with technical disciplines to ensure schedule is representative of the works being delivered on site.
• Monitor schedule changes and identify potential risk of delays
• Maintaining the project schedules in the P6 Database
• Ensure the Primavera database is updated in a timely manner to support portfolio reporting
• Consolidate data and build up schedule benchmarking competence
• Create, review, and analyse critical path schedules independently, in an efficient and comprehensive manner
• Develop comprehensive plans that communicate the programs, projects, and strategic goals
• Communicate effectively through clear and concise means appropriate to the project’s goals (verbal, written, graphically)
• Monitor schedule performance data, develop complex data analysis, and issue schedule reports required by management and project procedures
• Host and train teams on pull and collaborative planning.
• Work with vertical peers focusing on continuous improvement to our business processes
• Support the project teams in risk analysis including performance of QSRA as required.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of planning experience using Primavera P6.
• Understand the Critical Path Method of scheduling theoretically and as it applies to projects
• Ability to understand and accurately interpret construction documents (drawings, specifications, contracts/general conditions) at all levels of design
• Experience in CSA (civil, structural, architectural) and MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) construction management is a requirement
• Expert knowledge and extensive experience using Microsoft Office software tools, such as MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Word
• Expected travel is approx. 20%, but may grow and evolve over time
• Data Center experience is preferred, but not required
• English language mandatory, Italian preferred, but at least B-Level
• Additional Job Descriptio

DUTIES

• Create, review, and analyse critical path schedules independently, in an efficient and comprehensive manner
• Develop comprehensive plans that communicate the programs, projects, and strategic goals
• Communicate effectively through clear and concise means appropriate to the project’s goals (verbal, written, graphically)
• Monitor schedule performance data, develop complex data analysis, and issue schedule reports required by management and project procedures
• Host and train teams on pull planning.
• Work with vertical peers focusing on continuous improvement to our business processes
• Support the project teams in risk analysis including performance of QSRA as required.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of planning experience using Primavera P6.
• Understand the Critical Path Method of scheduling theoretically and as it applies to projects
• Ability to understand and accurately interpret construction documents (drawings, specifications, contracts/general conditions) at all levels of design
• Experience in CSA (civil, structural, architectural) and MEP (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) construction management is a requirement
• Expert knowledge and extensive experience using Microsoft Office software tools, such as MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Word
• Expected travel is approx. 20%, but may grow and evolve over time
• Data Center experience is preferred, but not required
• English language mandatory, Italian preferred, but at least B-Level
• Additional Job Description

Essential Job Functions/Duties

• Supporting the development of early project schedules, working closely with the New Side Development teams to build reliable schedules based upon known benchmarking (both internal and external)
• Contribute to the development of policies and procedures for scheduling
• Support teams in assessing General Contractor (GC) schedule capability and competency in advance of signing contracts
• Support the onboarding of GCs to ensure understanding of and compliance with the Vantage Data Centre (VDC) Contractor schedule specification
• Responsible for project schedule health checks and general schedule quality assurance against GC developed schedules and working with technical disciplines to ensure schedule is representative of the works being delivered on site.
• Monitor schedule changes and identify potential risk of delays
• Maintaining the project schedules in the P6 Database
• Ensure the Primavera database is updated in a timely manner to support portfolio reporting
• Consolidate data and build up schedule benchmarking competence
• Create, review, and analyse critical path schedules independently, in an efficient and comprehensive manner
• Develop comprehensive plans that communicate the programs, projects, and strategic goals
• Communicate effectively through clear and concise means appropriate to the project’s goals (verbal, written, graphically)
• Monitor schedule performance data, develop complex data analysis, and issue schedule reports required by management and project procedures
• Host and train teams on pull and collaborative planning.
• Work with vertical peers focusing on continuous improvement to our business processes

Support the project teams in risk analysis including performance of QSRA as required.
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Nous travaillons dans un environnement sans orgueil et sans arrogance. Nous mettons tout en œuvre pour nous construire et nous soutenir l’un l’autre, en appréciant les forces de chacun et en respectant les faiblesses d’autrui. Travailler ensemble est un plaisir, et nous cherchons toujours le moyen de rendre le travail encore plus agréable. Notre dur labeur et notre efficacité sont récompensés par une rémunération globale supérieure à ce qu’offre le marché. Nous proposons un régime de soins médicaux et d’assistance, un régime de retraite et des congés payés au-delà des attentes du marché.
La sécurité est toujours une priorité. Pendant la COVID, tout le personnel qui le peut, travaille à distance et des mesures appropriées ont été prises pour assurer la sécurité des employés occupant un poste essentiel sur place. Peu importe votre lieu de travail, nous vous fournissons la technologie nécessaire avant ou le jour même de votre entrée en poste.
Les avantages qu’il y a à faire partie de l’équipe de Vantage s’expriment clairement tout au long de l’année par l’entremise d’un éventail d’avantages sociaux, de marques de reconnaissance, de formations et de développement, sans oublier que vous saurez combien votre contribution rehausse la valeur de l’entreprise et de notre communauté.
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Essential Job Functions/Duties

• Supporting the development of early project schedules, working closely with the New Side Development teams to build reliable schedules based upon known benchmarking (both internal and external)
• Contribute to the development of policies and procedures for scheduling
• Support teams in assessing General Contractor (GC) schedule capability and competency in advance of signing contracts
• Support the onboarding of GCs to ensure understanding of and compliance with the Vantage Data Centre (VDC) Contractor schedule specification
• Responsible for project schedule health checks and general schedule quality assurance against GC developed schedules and working with technical disciplines to ensure schedule is representative of the works being delivered on site.
• Monitor schedule changes and identify potential risk of delays
• Maintaining the project schedules in the P6 Database
• Ensure the Primavera database is updated in a timely manner to support portfolio reporting
• Consolidate data and build up schedule benchmarking competence
• Create, review, and analyse critical path schedules independently, in an efficient and comprehensive manner
• Develop comprehensive plans that communicate the programs, projects, and strategic goals
• Communicate effectively through clear and concise means appropriate to the project’s goals (verbal, written, graphically)
• Monitor schedule performance data, develop complex data analysis, and issue schedule reports required by management and project procedures
• Host and train teams on pull and collaborative planning.
• Work with vertical peers focusing on continuous improvement to our business processes
• Support the project teams in risk analysis including performance of QSRA as required