Senior Manager, Project Controls, NA

About Vantage Data Centers

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

As the Project Controls Manager for North America. Your key function will be to support the efficient delivery of Vantage Data Center Portfolio by the organization of data, implementation of scalable processes and the use of professional tools. In this role, you will lead, collaborate, negotiate, and communicate to identify areas for improvement, development of plans, processes and execute changes. This includes supporting project budgets and schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders.

This role can be based fully remote in the US.

Essential Job Functions

• Implement and maintain standard procedures for cost informational requirements from data submitted by contractors and suppliers. Develop methodologies for classification and interpretation and benchmarking of the data gathered.
• Perform cost engineering functions encompassing estimating, cost control and supporting budget preparations, forecasting, cashflow and reporting.
• Support decision making with objective data, working with partner teams to understand the impact of project implementation in a live data center environment.
• Evaluate projects at each stage of development to ensure cost and financial activities of the project team inclusive of ensuring client/contractual obligations have been met.
• Manages the project control resources and personnel required to deliver multiple portfolios of projects; ensures project controls processes are consistently applied across projects.
• Monthly reporting on our North American program milestones and interdependencies

Duties 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
• Report budget at various stages of development comparing underwriting to budget (SD/ DD/CD) and actuals
• Ensure risk exposure is accurately extracted from the Risk/Upside Log into other reports
• Provide project teams with schedule lookahead metrics
• 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
• 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)

• 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 create project estimates at each development stage including conceptual design, SD, DD, CD
• Partner with CCF to perform 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

Job Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or certification as Project Controls Manager or equivalent recommended, MBA is helpful.

Experience:

• 10 years of experience in project controls management required, 10 to 15 years preferred.
• Experience in P6 software and interface with accounting software like Yardi and Anaplan strongly preferred.

Skills:

• 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.

Physical Demands and Special Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Additional Details

• 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.
• Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including your qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience and may fall outside of the range shown.

We operate with No Ego and No Arrogance. We work to build each other up and support one another, appreciating each other’s strengths and respecting each other’s weaknesses. We find joy in our work and each other, actively seeking opportunities to inject fun into what we do. Our hard and efficient work is rewarded with an above market total compensation package. We offer a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations.

Throughout the year, the advantage of being part of the Vantage team is evident with an array of benefits, recognition, training and development, and the knowledge that your contribution adds value to the company and our community.

Don't meet all the requirements? Please still apply if you think you are the right person for the position. We are always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.

Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Vantage Data Centers does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firm agencies. Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired; such resumes will be deemed the sole property of Vantage Data Centers.

We’ll be accepting applications for at least one week from the date this role is posted. If you're interested, we encourage you to apply soon—we’re excited to find the right person and will keep the role open until we do!