Senior Manager, Project Controls, Global
Vantage Data CentersAbout the role
About Vantage Data Centers
Vantage is committed to being a workplace of inclusion, equity, respect and acceptance. We celebrate diversity and intentionally seek out opportunities to learn from one another’s experience.
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.
Development Management Office (DMO) Overview
The Development Management Office (DMO) supports Design Engineering, New Site Development, Construction, Innovation, Sustainability and Project Controls teams within the Vantage Development & Engineering (D&E) global organization. The DMO develops standards for business process, documents these standards within an automated project management framework and manages dashboard-based reporting for the Development & Engineering organization. The DMO is responsible for design, documentation and management of the business process flow coordinating the activities of D&E and other teams along the way. The DMO ensures that key stakeholders are engaged in the decisionmaking process to align project conditions, design goals and schedule targets to corporate goals.
The DMO works to empower each member across teams to drive high- impact decisions and even more impactful results. Position Overview Vantage is looking for a Senior Project Controls Manager to support project controls functions globally 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.
Position Overview
Vantage is looking for a Senior Manager, Project Controls, Global to support project controls functions globally 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.
Essential Job Functions
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.
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.
Oversee the production of project schedules throughout project lifecycle to support internal and external development teams to meet or exceed targets.
Duties
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 Commented [JS1]: Update with Latest
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
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 billi
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