Project Controls Program Lead

Oracle•Nashville, TN

2d•$90,100 - $209,500

About The Position

The Global Program Controls organization provides governance, reporting, controls processes, cost management support, and portfolio visibility to help Oracle Cloud Infrastructure deliver global data center programs with greater consistency, transparency, and execution discipline. The Project Controls Program Lead will support Project Intake, cost management, reporting, data quality, and cross-functional coordination activities across the pre-execution and execution lifecycle. This role helps capture, organize, validate, and report project information, including early demand signals, letters of intent, project intake data, planning inputs, commercial status, cost assumptions, schedule milestones, risks, dependencies, stakeholder decisions, and readiness indicators. This is a hands-on IC4 role for a self-motivated project controls professional who can work independently while partnering closely with senior leads, functional teams, and stakeholders. The successful candidate will be comfortable creating structure, maintaining trackers, supporting recurring reporting, documenting processes, and helping improve consistency across a fast-moving global infrastructure portfolio.

Requirements

Self-motivated project controls professional
Ability to work independently
Ability to partner closely with senior leads, functional teams, and stakeholders
Comfortable creating structure
Comfortable maintaining trackers
Comfortable supporting recurring reporting
Comfortable documenting processes
Comfortable helping improve consistency across a fast-moving global infrastructure portfolio

Responsibilities

Support Global Program Controls activities related to Project Intake and pre-execution controls, from early demand signal through LOI, planning readiness, and transition to execution.
Assist with project intake validation, milestone tracking, readiness reviews, documentation requirements, and handoff information needed by Delivery, Construction, Finance, and other partner teams.
Maintain trackers, templates, data fields, meeting notes, action logs, and supporting documentation to improve visibility into key project controls information.
Partner with internal stakeholder groups to collect required data, identify gaps, validate completeness, and support readiness criteria and escalation paths.
Help ensure Project Intake information is accurate, structured, current, and available for leadership and stakeholder review.
Support cost management activities across the construction lifecycle, including estimate review, cost planning, cost validation, change order review, cost impact tracking, and contingency support.
Assist with estimate and cost planning deliverables, including gathering inputs, reviewing cost plans, preparing summaries, and supporting updates at design and planning milestones.
Participate with design, delivery, construction, general contractor, and cost partner teams to collect cost information and reconcile estimate or pricing inputs.
Support written comments, summaries, and review materials for contractor submissions, estimates, cost reports, change order requests, and pricing packages.
Help maintain cost impact logs, contingency trackers, commitment trackers, valuation support files, and change control documentation.
Support value engineering, design optioneering, cost benchmarking, final account support, and compilation of as-built cost records where applicable.
Support development and maintenance of dashboards, pipeline trackers, cost reports, readiness scorecards, funding data presentations, and recurring leadership reporting inputs.
Work with the Data & Digital Excellence team and functional stakeholders to define reporting inputs, dashboard requirements, data quality checks, and data governance expectations.
Validate data completeness, consistency, and accuracy across project intake, cost, commercial, schedule, and readiness information.
Use reporting outputs to help identify trends, bottlenecks, missing data, milestone slippage, cost risks, readiness gaps, decision dependencies, and automation opportunities.
Prepare monthly cost reports, portfolio updates, meeting materials, executive summaries, and decision-support content for review by senior team members and leadership.
Coordinate with Project Intake and stakeholder groups including Site Selection, Capacity Planning, Customer teams, Design and Engineering, Estimating, Scheduling, Commercial, Legal, Procurement, Finance, Delivery, Construction, and Data & Digital Excellence.
Collect, organize, validate, and report information required to support project and portfolio decision-making.
Support cross-functional working sessions focused on cost, schedule, data quality, reporting standards, process alignment, milestone governance, readiness requirements, and commercial considerations.
Help improve data discipline, reporting accuracy, accountability, decision visibility, and adoption of standard processes across matrixed teams.
Communicate project controls updates, risks, trends, and recommended next steps clearly to managers, stakeholders, and leadership audiences.
Support the development of standardized Global Program Controls processes for Project Intake, LOI reporting, readiness reviews, cost management, reporting inputs, and executive reporting support.
Create and maintain templates, process maps, data standards, operating rhythms, cost reporting formats, and benchmark support materials.
Track controls performance indicators such as intake completeness, reporting accuracy, milestone adherence, cost forecast quality, readiness quality, change control performance, and cycle-time improvement.
Identify process gaps, propose practical improvements, support implementation, and help sustain process adoption across teams.
Support internal business management systems, delivery methodologies, tools, and SOX control responsibilities where applicable.