Senior Planner - Construction, South East Asia

Firmus Technologies

Firmus Technologies is a global leader pioneering the solution to AI’s energy challenge, founded in Australia in 2019 by a visionary team of entrepreneurs. Our mission is to create the most energy-efficient AI infrastructure, combining cutting edge technology with a steadfast commitment to sustainability. 

Through ground-breaking research and development, we invented a verticalized AI Factory - a new class of digital infrastructure that replaces traditional data centres. Built on new approaches to liquid cooling, energy management, water use and modular construction methodology, the Firmus AI Factory delivers low-cost AI tokens across Asia-Pacific.

Firmus AI Cloud

We provide customers access to energy savings via our large-scale GPU cloud, Firmus AI Cloud. Rated Silver in The GPU Cloud ClusterMAX™ Rating System, our cloud empowers developers, enterprise, education and government users to train AI models with unmatched efficiency and cost savings. With an ever-growing list of services and applications, we are committed to building a cloud experience for our customers that is market-leading, proprietary and built to scale. 

Why you’ll love working here

• A fast-paced and dynamic environment working with next-gen technology. You’ll be operating at the intersection of sustainability and artificial intelligence – helping to transform an industry. 
• Working with and access to colleagues who are true innovators and leaders in their field. 
• As an emerging company, we work as a close-knit team. Work with the founders, grow a strong network, and witness the impact you make first-hand as we democratise AI tools for everyone – more sustainably, and more affordably. 
• We believe that people from diverse backgrounds come together to do their best work, be their authentic selves, and build great things. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 

Role Summary

Firmus is building AI Factories across Asia Pacific, and our customers depend on us to deliver capacity on the dates we commit to. The schedule is central to that, not just for each project but across the whole portfolio.

As Senior Planner, you will own planning and scheduling for our South East Asian projects, including Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. You will develop and maintain Integrated Master Schedules, test and challenge contractor programmes, and work with project teams and contractors to optimise schedules so they reflect portfolio priorities. You will also produce detailed schedule and schedule risk reporting that gives the PMO and leadership a clear, honest view of where delivery stands and what needs attention.

We are looking for someone who thinks strategically about schedule at a portfolio level: how projects compete for the same equipment, contractors and people, where the real risks to customer dates sit, and which decisions will protect them. Sitting within Project Controls and Governance in the Development Division, you will work closely with the PMO, project teams and your Sydney-based counterpart covering Australia, so Firmus has one consistent portfolio view.

 

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio scheduling and strategy

• Look beyond individual projects to identify cross-project dependencies, shared contractor and equipment demands, long-lead items, and authority or grid connection constraints, and explain their effect on portfolio priorities.
• Work with the PMO and leadership to test sequencing options and scenarios, and advise where effort and resources should go to protect customer Ready for Service (RFS) dates and commercial commitments.
• Make sure project schedules align with portfolio priorities, stage gates and contracted customer dates.
• Contribute to a consistent portfolio-level schedule view across Australia and South East Asia.

Integrated Master Schedules

• Develop, manage and maintain Integrated Master Schedules for South East Asian projects using Primavera P6 or Oracle Primavera Cloud.
• Integrate programmes across design, long-lead equipment (LLE) and procurement, authority approvals, construction, testing and commissioning, and customer handover and RFS.
• Apply consistent scheduling standards, including WBS, activity coding, calendars, logic and milestones, so schedules roll up cleanly across the portfolio.
• Help delivery teams own and be accountable for their programmes, with logic that clearly shows constraints, predecessors and procurement dependencies.
• Maintain schedule baselines, revisions and change records in line with Firmus PMO programme controls and change management requirements.

Contractor programmes and schedule optimisation

• Review and challenge contractor and consultant programmes, ensuring sound logic, sequencing, calendars, constraints, milestones and critical path integrity.
• Work with project teams and contractors to optimise schedules, including resequencing, removing unnecessary constraints and identifying opportunities to accelerate.
• Develop recovery and mitigation programmes with project teams and contractors to protect critical delivery dates.
• Facilitate programme reviews, interface sessions and coordination workshops.

Schedule analysis and risk

• Perform Critical Path Method (CPM), float and near-critical path analysis to identify schedule risks, dependencies and interfaces.
• Lead schedule risk analysis, including quantitative schedule risk analysis (QSRA) where appropriate, to produce risk-adjusted forecasts and confidence levels for key milestones.
• Analyse programme changes, delays and emerging events, including their impact on RFS, contractual and key project milestones, and support delay and extension of time (EOT) assessments.
• Run regular schedule health checks so issues are found early.

Reporting and insights

• Monitor progress against approved baselines and report schedule variance, milestones and forecasts to the PMO and project leadership.
• Prepare detailed schedule and schedule risk reports for monthly progress reporting (MPR), PMO governance and executive, client and investor reporting.
• Turn complex programme information into concise insights and clear recommendations for decision-makers.
• Work with the Project Systems Lead to connect schedule data to Procore and the PMO's interactive dashboards, reducing manual reporting.

Continuous improvement

• Support continuous improvement and standardisation of Firmus planning, scheduling and project controls processes, keeping them simple and practical for project teams.

 

Skills & Experience

Required Skills

• 7 to 10 years of experience as a planner or scheduler, or in project controls, on major construction, infrastructure, energy or mission critical projects.
• Advanced capability in Primavera P6 or Oracle Primavera Cloud.
• Experience developing and maintaining Integrated Master Schedules across multiple contractors, consultants and workstreams.
• Experience scheduling across multiple projects or a portfolio, with the ability to think strategically about priorities, shared resources and trade-offs.
• Strong experience across design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning and operational handover.
• Strong understanding of CPM, float analysis, progress measurement, forecasting, schedule variance and schedule risk management.
• Hands-on experience with schedule risk analysis, including preparing risk-adjusted forecasts and reporting confidence levels.
• Good understanding of delay analysis, EOT and change impacts, mitigation and programme recovery.
• A track record of working with contractors to improve and optimise their programmes.
• Ability to translate complex programme information into concise management and executive-level insights.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence working with Project Directors, Project Managers, contractors, consultants and commissioning teams.
• Strong Microsoft Excel capability.

 

Preferred Experience

• Data centre project experience, or equivalent experience delivering complex mission critical facilities with significant electrical, mechanical, controls and commissioning interfaces.
• Experience with schedule risk tools such as Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran Risk or Deltek Acumen.
• Power BI or similar reporting experience.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Project.
• Experience with Procore or similar project management platforms.
• Experience delivering projects in Singapore, Malaysia or Indonesia, including local authority and utility processes.
• Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Indonesia would be advantageous.
• A tertiary qualification in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related discipline.

Location: Singapore, with travel to project sites across South East Asia, including Malaysia and Indonesia

Employment Basis

Permanent full-time

Diversity

At Firmus, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future through innovative engineering solutions.

Join us in our mission to revolutionise the AI industry through sustainable practices and cutting-edge engineering. Apply now to be part of shaping the future of sustainable AI infrastructure.

About Firmus Technologies 

Firmus Technologies is a global leader pioneering the solution to AI’s energy challenge, founded in Australia in 2019 by a visionary team of entrepreneurs and engineers passionate about sustainable computing infrastructure.

Firmus builds and operates AI infrastructure across Asia-Pacific, utilising its proprietary AI Factory platform to deliver transformative cost-effective GPU clusters and AI cloud services for developers, enterprise, education and government users.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future through innovative engineering solutions.

Join us in our mission to revolutionise the AI industry through sustainable practices and cutting-edge engineering.