Senior Data Center Project Controls Lead

Ll Oefentherapie; Abilene (TX); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle seeks a Lead Principal Data Center Project Controls to drive integrated planning, controls, analytics, and governance for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center delivery in Abilene, TX, and Shackelford County. You will oversee design reviews, commissioning, and QC processes, guiding risk mitigation and executive reporting.

Role requires 10+ years in project controls or related areas, a engineering/related bachelor’s, and willingness to travel; remote work flexibility is possible for

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in project controls, project management, program management, construction delivery, supply chain, or large-scale infrastructure delivery.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Supply Chain, Operations, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure, data center, mission-critical, industrial, or manufacturing programs.
• Strong understanding of integrated schedules, cost tracking, risk management, forecasting, milestone reporting, and executive reporting.
• Experience coordinating supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, and material readiness with project execution needs.
• Willingness to travel regularly to project sites, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.

Responsibilities

• Drive integrated project schedules, milestone trackers, forecasts, dashboards, and executive reporting for assigned data center delivery scopes.
• Track project performance across cost, schedule, risk, safety, supply chain readiness, manufacturing alignment, logistics, and field execution.
• Identify critical-path risks, cross-functional dependencies, delivery constraints, procurement gaps, manufacturing bottlenecks, logistics concerns, and recovery needs.
• Develop and maintain mitigation plans, recovery forecasts, risk registers, milestone trackers, issue and action logs, and decision records.
• Coordinate long-lead procurement status, supplier readiness, manufacturing alignment, logistics plans, and material flow with project execution needs.
• Support prefab, modular delivery, OSA adoption, and industrialized delivery scaling by aligning manufacturing and field requirements.
• Partner with project teams, suppliers, logistics providers, manufacturing partners, and leadership to improve execution alignment and schedule predictability.
• Validate project reporting through field engagement, site reviews, supplier check-ins, and manufacturing status reviews.
• Escalate project risks early with clear ownership, recommended actions, due dates, and recovery paths.
• Facilitate TPM governance, operating rhythms, cross-functional coordination meetings, accountability tracking, and follow-up discipline.
• Monitor KPIs including forecast accuracy, cost variance, schedule adherence, mitigation closure, material delivery, supplier performance, manufacturing throughput, logistics readiness, safety trends, and project health.
• Convert project data into executive-ready insights, decision briefs, and recommendations.

Skills

Construction Management

Construction Project Management

Continuous Process Improvement

Data Center Infrastructure

Data Center Operations

OSHA Safety Standards

Primavera Analytics

Primavera Cloud

Problem Solving

Program Management

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Technical Team Coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Supply Chain, Operations, or related field (or equivalent)

Tools

Primavera P6

Oracle Primavera Cloud

MS Project

Power BI

Tableau

Smartsheet

Job description

Oracle seeks a Lead Principal Data Center Project Controls to drive integrated planning, controls, analytics, and governance for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center delivery in Abilene, TX, and Shackelford County. You will oversee design reviews, commissioning, and QC processes, guiding risk mitigation and executive reporting.

Role requires 10+ years in project controls or related areas, a engineering/related bachelor’s, and willingness to travel; remote work flexibility is possible for