Project Controls Manager – Portfolio Planning
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Project Controls Manager leading Primavera P6 planning and portfolio controls for Edged US’s hyperscale data center construction portfolio. Driving integrated schedules, forecasting, milestone accountability, and executive reporting across North America.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain project development schedules from site acquisition through construction commencement.
- Establish, monitor, and drive accountability for development, entitlement, permitting, utility, financing, procurement, and contractual milestones.
- Facilitate milestone reviews with stakeholders and escalate risks threatening scheduled commitments.
- Coordinate with Development, Legal, Finance, Real Estate, Design, Procurement, Utility, and Construction teams.
- Identify schedule risks, missed commitments, approval delays, and unresolved action items; drive resolution and escalate issues requiring leadership intervention.
- Develop, maintain, and oversee integrated portfolio schedules consolidating project schedules into an enterprise planning framework.
- Monitor portfolio milestones, energization targets, commissioning activities, lease obligations, customer commitments, and operational readiness milestones.
- Establish and enforce enterprise scheduling standards, procedures, coding structures, schedule specifications, update requirements, and reporting protocols.
- Conduct schedule quality reviews and governance audits.
- Support executive leadership through long-range portfolio planning, scenario analysis, schedule forecasting, capacity planning, and strategic milestone management.
- Review contractor, consultant, and internal schedules for logic integrity, sequencing, critical path validity, float management, resource loading, and milestone compliance.
- Perform schedule health assessments, delay analyses, what-if scenarios, recovery planning evaluations, and predictive schedule forecasting.
- Evaluate impacts of procurement delays, utility constraints, permitting requirements, design development, change orders, and commissioning activities.
- Monitor schedule performance across the portfolio, identify trends and recurring risks, and recommend improvements.
- Prepare portfolio schedule reports, milestone dashboards, executive presentations, and schedule performance metrics.
- Develop and maintain schedule performance indicators, forecasting tools, milestone tracking systems, and portfolio-level schedule analytics.
- Present schedule forecasts, milestone status, portfolio risks, and mitigation plans to executive leadership, project teams, and stakeholders.
- Report to the Portfolio Controls Director.
Requirements:
- Between 10–15 years of planning, scheduling, or project controls experience supporting large-scale capital construction programs, including hyperscale, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure, or energy projects.
- Demonstrated experience administering Primavera P6 in an enterprise environment supporting multiple concurrent projects.
- Extensive experience developing and managing integrated master schedules, portfolio-level planning systems, and development schedules from site acquisition through construction commencement.
- Advanced understanding of Critical Path Methodology (CPM), float analysis, schedule forecasting, schedule recovery planning, and risk analysis.
- Experience reviewing engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness schedules.
- Strong understanding of project controls principles including cost forecasting, risk management, change management, and performance reporting.
- Data center or mission-critical infrastructure experience strongly preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, or related field.
- PSP, PMI-SP, PMP, CCM, or equivalent certification preferred.
- Expert-level proficiency with Primavera P6 and enterprise schedule administration.
- Strong analytical capabilities with experience interpreting and communicating complex schedule information.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present schedule information to executive-level audiences.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong understanding of project lifecycle planning from site acquisition through commissioning and operational readiness.
- Proven ability to influence project teams and drive adherence to portfolio standards and governance requirements.
Benefits:
- A fast-paced, entrepreneurial culture focused on innovation.
- A flexible, autonomous work environment.
- A culture of respect, learning, and excellence.
- Experienced, highly talented experts as team peers.
- Growth and travel opportunities.
- A team of change-makers having a significant impact on people and the planet.
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