VP, Project Controls - Americas Data Center Leader

Nscale; Amersfoort; Hybrid; EUR 231,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Vice President, Project Controls AMERS to establish and lead the controls function for the Americas portfolio. The role sets governance, systems, and cadence to provide trusted cost, schedule, risk, and forecast data to executive leadership.

You will translate complex delivery information into clear executive decisions, build a high-performing controls organization, and partner with Delivery, Development, Design, Procurement, Finance, and Operations to enable agile execution

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.
• 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.

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.

Skills

Executive communication

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

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

Tools

Primavera P6

Cost-management platforms

Advanced Excel

Executive reporting/dashboarding tools

Job description

Nscale is seeking a Vice President, Project Controls AMERS to establish and lead the controls function for the Americas portfolio. The role sets governance, systems, and cadence to provide trusted cost, schedule, risk, and forecast data to executive leadership.

You will translate complex delivery information into clear executive decisions, build a high-performing controls organization, and partner with Delivery, Development, Design, Procurement, Finance, and Operations to enable agile execution