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.

Construction Department 

The Construction team is responsible for the entire process flow of delivering the physical data centers from shovel ready state through commissioning, working with Sales, Operations, and management along the way. Construction implements and executes upon the work product developed by the Development & Engineering (D&E) team. The team also manages Vantage’s build partners to success through technical feedback and review, and actively participating in review of schedule and budget.  

Many times, a role like this at other companies is purely oversight. One thing that distinguishes Vantage is that our construction teams are given the responsibility and authority to directly drive the process. When compared to external resources, our internal team can ensure the key stakeholders are engaged in the decision-making process to align long-term operational sustainability with value engineering and cost metrics to deliver products aligned with corporate goals. This approach empowers each member of the team to drive high- impact decisions and even more impactful results. 

Position Overview

As the Project Controls Analyst 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 support the PCM with reviewing and analyzing of project cost and schedules, and knowledge of, and proficiency with, current technologies and software. Minimal administrative support will also be required.

Essential Job Functions

• Effectively identify and communicate key project risks related to cost/schedule to internal stakeholders
• Define and alter departmental scope based on internal customer feedback and identified areas of risk
• Assist in the development and tracking of project change orders.
• Prepares detailed cost analysis to identify and explain variances on a weekly/monthly basis.
• Convert the project’s approved estimate into a control budget for usage in cost management
• Provide cost estimating support for internal efforts on an “as needed” basis
• Evaluate projections based on earned value management.
• Proactively identify issues and risks, and work with the team for timely resolutions.
• Leverage best practices, techniques, and tools for quality control, project planning, execution, project management, ongoing milestone tracking, communication, and key performance metrics.
• Coordinate monthly cost review sessions with project team. Prepare monthly summary for management team.
• Travel to field offices when required.
• Prepare and present project cost and schedule summary reports in weekly, bi-monthly and monthly Project Status Review meetings, utilizing spreadsheets, diagrams, graphs, and reports suitable for presentation to upper management.
• Support decision making with objective data, working with partner teams to understand the impact of project implementation in a live data center environment. 
• 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

Risk Management

• Establish risk 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 risk management from design through construction<