Project Controls Director

Project Controls Director

Company

Applied Materials is the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. Our expertise in modifying materials at atomic levels and on an industrial scale helps our customers – who make smartphones, supercomputers, virtual reality headsets, autonomous vehicles and more – transform their ideas into reality.

The technologies we create are the foundational building blocks of the future. Our systems make semiconductor devices, called chips—"the brains" of the electronics used in almost every aspect of our lives. The promise of new and exciting applications, transforming industries such as consumer electronics, transportation, communications, healthcare, and super computing/AI, are enabled by advances in semiconductor and display technology.

While virtually every nationality, culture, and background are currently represented within Applied Materials, we strive for a more robust Culture of Inclusion (COI) and diversity. Leveraging our COI vision helps drive innovation, build organizational capabilities, create equal opportunities for everyone and achieve our company’s definition of Winning.

Our innovations Make Possible® a Better Future. If you’re looking for the next step in your future, consider Applied Materials. With the data explosion and new investment in semiconductors, it’s an exciting place to be.

Role

The Global Workplace and Infrastructure (GWI) team is a multi-disciplinary team responsible for successfully delivery of all facility projects globally. Applied Materials expects over the next five years to have the most exciting and active project pipeline in its history. Our largest and the most important ever undertaken is the recently announced ~$4B industry-leading R&D lab in Sunnyvale scheduled to begin construction in early 2024. The Project Controls Director is a newly established role within GWI team that will partner with the Project Execution Director and Project Design Director to ensure successful delivery of this project, and subsequently to contribute to other future projects globally.

The Project Controls Director is expected to lead a team of direct reports and/or staff from managed service providers that will be accountable for management of the integrated project schedule, cost and cashflow reporting, purchasing and invoicing controls, budgeting and quantity surveying support, document management and change control, and audit support.

The Project Controls Director will be required to make key decisions and drive project control activities in a fast-paced environment through all phases of the Project lifecycle (i.e. design, contracting, construction, and transition to operations) while collaborating closely with the EHS Leader, Project Risk Manager and Project Management Office (PMO) to report out critical project trends and insights to the Project Leader and Corporate Stakeholders.

The Project Controls Director should be knowledgeable of project management processes across planning, design, construction, startup, testing, commissioning and acceptance of systems and buildings.

The position is based in Sunnyvale and will report to the Managing Director, Strategic Infrastructure.

Additional Responsibilities:

Support with the management of commercial agreements for vendors.

Participate in the planning of facilities and changes for laboratories and equipment layouts.

Monitor build progress and helping make strategic decisions and providing leadership and direction to those decisions.

Supporting the management of risks and identifying mitigation/enhancement plans to avoid delays or reputational damage.

Managing Federal Grant application requirements.

Assesses existing standards and processes, perform gap analysis, evaluate best practices (including tools) and develop roadmap and lead implementation of enhancements.

Support Design and Construction Center of Excellence (COE), which provides oversight for project delivery globally.

The Ideal Candidate will have the Following:

Demonstrated experience as a project controls director accountable for the performance and results of multiple team leads and vendor partnerships.

Experience in the semiconductor or similarly technically complex industry.

Strong executive presence with an ability to communicate with and effectively influence senior leaders.

Demonstrated experience leading and managing contractors, subcontractors, or vendors.

Experience with contract development, administration, and claims management.

Familiar with industry standard construction technology solutions (i.e. cost management systems,