Americas VP, Project Controls - Strategic Leader

Nscale; Amer; Hybrid; EUR 233,000 - 403,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

Nscale is building the infrastructure that powers AI in the Americas. The Vice President Project Controls AMERS leads a strategic controls function across cost, schedule, risk, and forecast for a multi-campus portfolio.

In this hybrid Americas role, you will shape governance, policy templates, and data standards while partnering with delivery, procurement, finance, and operations to drive decisions with trusted information.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive project controls, program management, construction management, or capital delivery experience, including senior leadership responsibility for large, complex capital programs.
• Experience establishing or maturing project controls processes and governance across cost, schedule, and risk in a growing, multi-project environment.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including budget management, cost forecasting, cash flow, contingency, change control, and contract administration.
• Deep knowledge of CPM scheduling, integrated master schedules, schedule quality, critical-path management, and schedule risk analysis.
• Proven ability to build and lead high performing project controls teams and influence senior delivery leaders without creating unnecessary process.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to turn complex portfolio data into concise, actionable recommendations.
• Experience with Primavera P6, cost-management platforms, risk tools, advanced Excel, and executive reporting or dashboarding tools.

Responsibilities

• Establish the Americas project controls strategy, governance model, minimum standards, and reporting architecture for cost, schedule, risk, change, and forecasting.
• Create practical policies, templates, and stage gates that provide consistent portfolio data and decision discipline while remaining appropriate to project phase, scale, and pace.
• Define data ownership, update cadence, quality checks, and escalation paths so project controls information is timely, accurate, comparable, and trusted.
• Continuously simplify and improve controls to prevent data overload, eliminate duplicate effort, and keep project teams focused on delivery outcomes.
• Lead adoption of common project controls systems, dashboards, and analytics that connect project-level detail to portfolio and executive reporting.
• Set standards for budget development, cost coding, estimates at completion, cash flow forecasting, contingency management, commitments, accruals, and change control.
• Provide independent challenge and assurance of project budgets, forecasts, cost risks, and recovery actions; ensure material trends are identified early and clearly explained.
• Own consolidated portfolio cost reporting and provide a clear view of budget status, forecast variance, cash needs, contingency position, and key commercial risks.

Skills

Executive leadership

Project controls

Budget management

Forecasting

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, Finance, or related discipline

Tools

Primavera P6

Excel

Risk tools

Cost-management platforms

Dashboarding tools

Job description

Nscale is building the infrastructure that powers AI in the Americas. The Vice President Project Controls AMERS leads a strategic controls function across cost, schedule, risk, and forecast for a multi-campus portfolio.

In this hybrid Americas role, you will shape governance, policy templates, and data standards while partnering with delivery, procurement, finance, and operations to drive decisions with trusted information.