Planning Manager

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Real Estate
The Role
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.










INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”

Skills Required

  • 5+ years in Data Centre projects
  • Overall experience of 12+ years
  • Experience using MSP software
  • Diploma or B E in Civil Engineering
  • Completed end-to-end process of at least 3 data centres

Cushman & Wakefield Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cushman & Wakefield and has not been reviewed or approved by Cushman & Wakefield.

  • Retirement Support A 401(k) with company match is consistently referenced as part of the package. Feedback suggests this provides a solid baseline for long‑term savings across many U.S. roles.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Paid time off and company holidays are regularly highlighted and described as a meaningful part of the offering. Feedback suggests time‑off benefits add tangible value alongside base pay.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, plus backup care and wellbeing resources, are described as available. These offerings indicate a supportive approach to family needs in many roles.

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
53,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1917

What We Do

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value for real estate occupiers and owners. Cushman & Wakefield is among the largest real estate services firms with approximately 53,000 employees in 400 offices and 60 countries. In 2019, the firm had revenue of $8.8 billion across core services of property, facilities and project management, leasing, capital markets, valuation and other services.

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