Position Summary
The Planner Lead is responsible for leading project planning and scheduling activities during the design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover of IREN’s next-generation, renewable-powered data center projects.
The role acts as the planning and scheduling focal point within the Construction Technical Office, maintaining the Integrated Master Schedule, coordinating contractor schedules, monitoring physical progress, identifying critical-path activities and schedule risks, and supporting mitigation and recovery plans.
A key responsibility of the role is to connect construction planning and physical progress with CAPEX management, providing reliable schedule inputs for CAPEX phasing, cash flow forecasting, and investment planning. The Planner Lead works closely with the Technical Office Manager, Cost Controller, Project Management, Construction, Procurement, and Finance teams to ensure alignment between project progress, schedule forecasts, and expected expenditure.
Responsibilities
Reporting to Technical Office Manager, the Planner Lead is responsible for:
• Develop and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) covering design, procurement, construction, utilities, energization, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Integrate and challenge contractor and vendor schedules, ensuring alignment across CSA, Electrical, Mechanical, BMS, Security, Power Infrastructure, utilities, and other project packages.
• Monitor physical progress against the approved baseline, ensuring accurate and consistent progress measurement across contractors and work packages.
• Perform critical path, schedule variance, and delay analysis, identifying emerging constraints, dependencies, milestone risks, and potential impacts on forecast completion dates.
• Develop mitigation and recovery plans in collaboration with Construction, Project Management, and contractors when progress deviates from approved milestones.
• Coordinate short- and medium-term constru
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