Director, Project Controls - Scheduling & Planning, NA

Vantagedc; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vantage in Phoenix is seeking a Director, Project Controls, NA to lead the end-to-end project controls function for data center development. You will drive scheduling, cost estimating, change management and reporting, building a high-performing team and leveraging internal and external resources to optimize speed, cost efficiency and risk management.

You will guide quarterly forecasts, ensure data integrity, and implement scalable control processes across North America.

Qualifications

• Leadership to architect and improve project controls systems, processes and specifications.
• Strong scheduling oversight across project lifecycles to meet targets.
• Budgets and costs managed to meet or beat targets.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership to project controls system and processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to link actuals to future improvements.
• Produce real-time status, KPIs, and predictive analytics for projects.

Skills

Leadership

Project controls

Scheduling

Cost management

Risk management

Tools

Cost accounting software

Scheduling software

Dashboards

Job description

About Vantage

Vantage powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world's well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Construction Department

The project Construction team is responsible for the project execution, delivering the physical data centers from project planning and design through procurement to construction and commissioning, working with Sales, Operations, and management along the way. The team manages Vantage's design and build partners to success through technical feedback and review, and actively participates in review of schedule and budget. Many times, a role like this at other companies is purely oversight. One thing that distinguishes Vantage is that our construction teams are given the responsibility and authority to directly drive the process. When compared to external resources, our internal team can ensure the key stakeholders are engaged in the decision‑making process to align long‑term operational sustainability with value engineering and cost metrics to deliver products aligned with corporate goals. This approach empowers each member of the team to drive high- impact decisions and even more impactful results.

Position Overview

This role will be based onsite in Phoenix.

Vantage is looking for a Director, Project Controls, NA to support project controls functions as part of our end to end data center development cycle. As a leader, you will drive a company program supporting four main pillars within project controls including scheduling, cost estimating, change management and reporting.

You will be charged with building and leading a great team and leveraging internal and external resources to enable delivery teams to improve speed to market, drive to optimized returns through lower build costs, help manage/mitigate risks, and have a repeatable/scalable change management process.

Essential Job Functions

• Provide overall leadership to architect and improve project controls system, processes and specifications to enable teams to leverage historical data, leverage predictive analytics, and support data‑driven decision making.
• Collaborate with Innovation Engineering, Site Selection/New Site Development, and Construction teams to provide end‑to‑end support and feedback loop to tie actuals to future improvements.
• Oversee the production of project schedules throughout project lifecycle to support internal and external development teams to meet or exceed targets.
• Cost Management: Establish useable budgets and manage costs to meet or exceed cost targets.
• Leverage cost databases using Vantage software programs to establish budget accuracy and optimize financial results.
• Utilize cost accounting software dashboards with real‑time telemetry at project, site, region, and national levels.
• Contribute to the month‑end financial forecasting process and ensure risk exposure and gainful opportunities are accurately reported.

Risk and Change Management

• At project start, develop risk management plans and maintain them throughout the project with mitigation strategies.
• Establish a change management workflow incorporating existing processes and best practices.
• Support Development design and Operations evaluations to assess cost and schedule impacts of proposed changes.

Performance Monitoring and Reporting

• Utilize data to produce real‑time status, KPIs, and predictive analytics.
• Prepare detailed cost, schedule, risk, and upside reports for project teams and management.
• Contribute to the month‑end financial forecasting process and ensure risk exposure is accurately reported.

Programmatic Support

Programmatic Support Create and maintain schedule database to set allowable ranges of each activity based real data; leverage cost database to do the same. Leverage data to produce real‑time status, KPIs and predictive analytics systems Commented [JS1]: Update with Latest Propagate use of standard breakdown structures (WBS, CBS, etc.) and Schedule of Values (SOV) to ensure consistent data capture and accurate cross‑referencing of budgets and actuals. Maintain program level schedule updates, prepare site specific schedules, and cost/schedule customer deliverables. Leverage leading and lagging indicators to help project teams identify impacts proactively and support development of mitigation plans

Reporting

Develop dashboards with real‑time telemetry at project, site, region and global levels; deliver detailed cost, schedule, risk/upside reports for the project teams and management as needed. Contribute to the month‑end financial forecasting process. Ensure risk exposure is accurately extracted from the Risk/Upside Log into other reports. Provide project teams with schedule lookahead metrics o Run analyses to compare the work i