Senior Manager, Project Controls, NA

Vantage Data Centers

2d • $165,000 - $185,000

About The Position

Vantage Data Centers 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. Position Overview Vantage is looking for a Senior Manager, 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 global 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying or certification as Project Controls Manager or equivalent required, MBA is helpful.
• 8 years of experience in project controls management required 10 to 12 years preferred.
• Global construction experience is required, and data Center experience is strongly preferred, but not required.
• Experience in P6 software and interface with accounting software like Yardi and Anaplan strongly preferred.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Understanding general project controls technical skills and the integration of all of the components including organizational, planning, accounting, analysis and revision process areas.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Travel required is expected to be up to 10-15% but may increase over time as the business evolves.

Responsibilities

• 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. 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. 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.
• 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 in place to the progress billings to report risk to budget or schedule.
• Change Management: Establish change management workflow incorporating existing processes and improving upon them. Support the evaluation of design and construction and the associated impacts on cost and/or schedule. Support proper documentation of change approvals from design through construction. 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. Partner with teams globally to harvest lessons learned and feed back to program level project controls and Innovation Engineering team.
• Development Projects (Preconstruction and Construction): Oversee the production of project schedules throughout project lifecycle to support internal and external development teams to meet or exceed targets. Support time-impact analysis throughout development stage gates. Ensure contractors comply with cost/schedule formats and data inputs enabling efficient data management. Work with project teams and Construction Cost and Finance (CCF) to improve project estimating process at each development stage including conceptual design, SD, DD, CD. Partner with CCF to establish cost standardization, benchmarking, labor analysis/efficiency and forecasting/ variance analysis to identify risks as well as opportunities to optimize ongoing and future builds. Support project teams in the development of Schedule of Values. Review and perform health check analysis on contractor’s baseline and progress schedules.
• Additional Duties: Handle additional duties as assigned by Management.

Benefits

• This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees