Director, Project Controls, AMERS

Nscale

2d•$160,000 - $270,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Nscale is building the infrastructure that powers AI. Our North American Data Center Infrastructure (DCI) group is delivering a pipeline of large-scale, high-density data center campuses where speed to power and speed to customer handover decide commercial success. Reliable, well-run scheduling is how we plan that speed and protect it. The Director, Project Controls – Scheduling leads schedule management across the DCI North America portfolio. This leader owns the scheduling function — its people, standards, and systems — and is accountable for a credible, integrated view of time across every campus, from site selection and utility power through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover. They give executives and customers a single, trusted answer to the question "when will it be ready, and what could stop it?"

Requirements

15+ years of planning and scheduling experience on large capital projects, with at least 5 years leading scheduling or project controls teams.
Experience scheduling mission-critical or complex facilities — data centers, power generation, substations, semiconductor, or comparable industrial builds — valued at $500M+.
Expert-level CPM scheduling knowledge and hands-on mastery of Primavera P6, including multi-project and enterprise environments.
Proven experience with quantitative schedule risk analysis, schedule quality assessment, and delay / time impact analysis.
Track record of setting up scheduling standards, governance, and reporting from the ground up in a fast-growing organization.
Strong executive presence and the ability to explain complex schedule positions clearly to senior and non-technical audiences.
Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

Hyperscale or colocation data center program experience, including multi-site and phased campus delivery and integrated commissioning (L1–L5).
AACE PSP or PMI-SP certification; AACE CCP or PMP a plus.
Owner-side scheduling leadership on EPC, CM-at-risk, and design-build contracts.
Experience with forensic schedule analysis and claims support.
Experience implementing Primavera P6 EPPM, schedule analytics tools, or Power BI schedule dashboards at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

Build, lead, and develop the North American scheduling team, including Project Controls – Scheduling leads, Schedulers, and Planners; set hiring plans, structure, and career paths.
Own the DCI portfolio-level schedule that rolls up every project's Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), showing key milestones, interdependencies, shared resources, and capacity delivery dates across all campuses.
Establish and enforce DCI scheduling standards — WBS, activity coding, calendars, level-of-detail requirements, baselining, update cadence, and templates — so every project schedule is consistent and comparable.
Set schedule health metrics (e.g., DCMA 14-point), run regular schedule reviews, and challenge project and contractor schedules for logic, realism, and completeness.
Maintain clear visibility of portfolio and project critical paths, including utility interconnection and energization, long-lead equipment, permitting, and customer handover commitments; escalate threats early.
Lead quantitative schedule risk analysis (Monte Carlo / QSRA), set schedule contingency strategy, and provide confidence levels (P50 / P80) for key delivery dates.
Define contractual scheduling requirements for EPC, design-build, and trade contracts; oversee review and acceptance of contractor baselines and updates; and lead delay, time impact, and recovery analysis.
Own monthly and quarterly schedule reporting to DCI leadership, the executive committee, and customer-facing teams, including milestone forecasts, trends, and recommended actions.
Select, implement, and continuously improve scheduling and schedule analytics platforms (e.g., Primavera P6 EPPM, schedule risk and quality tools, and dashboards), and integrate them with cost and project controls reporting.
Work closely with Project Directors, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Commissioning, Cost Management, and Commercial teams so schedule, cost, and contract positions stay aligned.