Project Controls Manager – Data Center Programs
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Job summary
QC Servion seeks a seasoned Project Controls Manager to support the PgMO across data center programs. You will oversee cost management, schedule performance, forecasting, and program controls to ensure reliable data and disciplined processes.
You will partner with Program Managers, Cost Estimators, and leadership to deliver actionable insights, improve outcomes, and enable proactive decision-making in a fast-paced environment.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls, Business, or related field.
- 5–10+ years of experience in project controls, scheduling, cost engineering, or related roles.
- Experience with data center, infrastructure, utility, or large capital programs.
- Strong scheduling, cost forecasting, performance measurement, risk management, and reporting.
- Proficient with EVM concepts (CPI, SPI, EAC) and forecasting analyses.
- Experience with Primavera P6, MS Project, and project controls platforms.
- Ability to forecast trends, communicate risks, and influence decisions.
- Excellent written/verbal communication and stakeholder management; travel up to 25%.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain schedules across multiple workstreams with accurate scope and milestones.
- Monitor costs, forecasts, variances, and prepare forecast-at-completion projections.
- Maintain risk registers, track dependencies, and support mitigation planning.
- Produce weekly and executive-level reports consolidating data from multiple sources.
- Ensure data integrity, baselines, and governance across projects and programs.
- Coordinate with program managers, cost estimators, and stakeholders for planning sessions.
- Translate data into actionable insights to drive proactive decisions.
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Job description
QC Servion is the centralized hub for human resources, change management, program management, sales & marketing, safety, administration, legal, and accounting services across the QC Ecosystem.
We provide comprehensive operational support that empowers our companies to focus on growth, innovation, and excellence, while ensuring employees thrive in safe, engaging, and well-managed environments.
The entities in our ecosystem include DLB Associates, Galtra Solutions, AI2IO, Fluid2Chip, CEQEL Critical Commissioning, and 2AI-DC Integrators. Collectively, we deliver services across the data center industry.
Project Controls Manager – Data Center Programs
Remote - work virtually from anywhere in the United States
QC Servion recognizes salary ranges from job boards do not necessarily reflect our pay ranges. In many instances we out-compete those ranges for well-qualified candidates.
We are seeking an experienced Project Controls Manager to join the QC Servion Program Management Office (PgMO), supporting cost management, schedule performance, forecasting, and project controls across the QC Ecosystem's data center, infrastructure, utility, and mission-critical development programs.
This role serves as a shared resource supporting multiple entities across the QC Ecosystem, helping project and program teams maintain visibility into schedule performance, budget status, forecasted outcomes, risks, and overall program health.
The Project Controls Manager partners closely with Program Managers, Cost Estimators, project teams, and leadership to ensure programs are built on reliable data, realistic forecasts, and disciplined controls processes. Success in this role requires the ability to connect cost, schedule, risk, and execution data into meaningful insights that support proactive decision-making and successful project delivery.
This is not simply a scheduling role. It is a project controls role focused on helping teams understand where projects stand today, where they are likely headed tomorrow, and what actions should be taken to improve outcomes.
- Develop, maintain, and analyze project and program schedules across multiple workstreams.
- Ensure schedules accurately reflect scope, milestones, dependencies, procurement activities, and delivery commitments.
- Monitor schedule performance and identify potential delays, risks, and impacts.
- Partner with project teams to understand schedule drivers and recovery opportunities.
- Support phase-gate reviews, readiness assessments, and project mobilization activities.
- Apply schedule health checks and quality reviews to improve schedule reliability and forecasting accuracy.
- Support budget tracking, forecasting, and performance measurement activities.
- Monitor cost performance and identify variances against approved budgets and forecasts.
- Develop forecast-at-completion projections and provide visibility into potential budget outcomes.
- Partner with Cost Estimators and Program Managers to evaluate financial impacts associated with project changes.
- Support monthly forecasting and project performance reviews.
- Partner with Program Managers to maintain risk registers and support risk management processes.
- Track project risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies across programs.
- Support risk assessments and mitigation planning activities.
- Maintain change logs and ensure approved changes are incorporated into schedule and cost forecasts.
- Provide visibility into emerging risks that may impact project performance.
- Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and performance metrics that provide visibility into project and program health.
- Consolidate schedule, cost, risk, and performance data from multiple sources into actionable reporting.
- Produce weekly, monthly, and executive-level reporting packages.
- Support governance reviews and leadership presentations with accurate performance data and forecasting.
- Translate complex project data into meaningful insights and recommendations.
- Maintain project controls processes, reporting standards, and performance measurement practices.
- Ensure consistency, accuracy, and integrity of schedule, cost, and forecasting data.
- Support development and maintenance of project baselines.
- Coordinate with project teams and stakeholders to ensure reporting inputs remain current and reliable.
- Help establish a single source of truth for project and program performance information.
- Partner with Program Managers, Cost Estimators, project teams, and operational stakeholders across the QC Ecosystem.
- Support project planning sessions, execution reviews, and program governance activities.
- Facilitate communication between stakeholders regarding schedule performance, forecasting, and program risks.
- Assist leadership in understanding key program trends, risks, and performance indicators.
- Project schedules accurately reflect execution plans and remain current.
- Risks, delays, and performance concerns are identified early and communicated proactively.
- Forecasts provide reliable visibility into potential project outcomes.
- Leadership receives accurate, timely, and actionable reporting.
- Cost, schedule, and risk data remain aligned and support informed decision-making.
- Program teams have confidence in project controls processes and reporting.
- Governance reviews are supported by accurate, well-organized performance information.
- Project controls practices improve consistency, accountability, and visibility across the organization.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Controls, Business, or a related field preferred.
- 5–10+ years of experience in project controls, project scheduling, cost engineering, construction controls, program controls, or capital project delivery.
- Experience supporting data center, infrastructure, utility, energy, industrial, mission-critical, or large-scale capital construction programs.
- Strong understanding of project scheduling, cost forecasting, performance measurement, change management, risk management, and program reporting.
- Experience developing, maintaining, and analyzing project schedules and performance metrics.
- Working knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM), including CPI, SPI, EAC, and variance analysis.
- Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, project controls platforms, and cost forecasting tools.
- Ability to develop forecasts, identify trends, and proactively communicate risks and potential project impacts.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex project data into actionable recommendations.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively across multiple projects, teams, and business units.
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
- Experience with quantitative risk analysis and contingency planning.
- Familiarity with schedule quality assessments and DCMA scheduling principles.
- PMI-SP, PSP, CCP, EVP, PMP, or similar certifications.
- Frequently required to remain in a stationary position.
- Frequently moving through home office.
- May occasionally lift up to 20 pounds.
- Up to 25%, this may include travel to any or all 50 US states.
- Travel is defined as physically leaving home on behalf of business activities including but not limited to client sites, meetings with other employees, meeting for business development purposes, running errands on behalf of the business, attending industry conferences, etc.
- Choice of comprehensive medical plans (including two PPO-style plans and a HDHP w/ HSA option).
- Flex spending accounts (FSA).
- Dental and vision plans.
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits extended to spouse / domestic partner and dependent children up to age 26.
- 401k with company match and self-directed brokerage account option.
- PTOincludingadditionalpaid time off during the last week of the year.
- Company paid life insurance coverage for employees and their eligible dependents.
- Short and long-term disability, AD&D coverage.
- Professional development opportunities, tuitionreimbursement,and professional licensingassistance.
- Paid parental leave after one year of employment.
CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC residents only: In accordance with CO, CA, IL, NY, WA, and Washington DC law, the range provided is QC Servion's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location.
QC Servion provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
QC Servion does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to QC Servion in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where QC Servion has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of QC Servion and QC Servion will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
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