Project Manager

Position Overview

Nscale's North American Data Center Infrastructure (DCI) group is delivering large-scale, high-density data center campuses on demanding timelines. The Project Controls group gives every project a clear, honest view of cost, schedule, and risk.

The Project Controls Manager owns project controls for one or more DCI projects from development through handover. This role leads the project-level controls team (cost, scheduling, and planning), integrates cost and schedule into a single performance picture, and makes sure Project Directors and leadership have the information they need to make good decisions early.

Key Responsibilities

• Project controls leadership: Lead and mentor the project-level controls team, including Cost Managers, Schedulers, and Planners; assign work, review outputs, and maintain quality standards.
• Baseline development: Develop and maintain the project control baseline — WBS, cost breakdown structure, budget, and integrated schedule — in line with the DCI project controls framework.
• Performance measurement: Run earned value analysis and integrate cost and schedule data to report progress, productivity, variances, and forecasts at completion.
• Reporting: Produce weekly and monthly project reports and dashboards for Project Directors and the Director, Project Controls, highlighting trends, risks, and recommended actions.
• Change management: Administer the change control process, including trend logs, change requests, and contractor change orders, and assess cost and schedule impacts before approval.
• Risk management: Facilitate risk workshops, maintain the project risk register, and support quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis and contingency management.
• Contractor oversight: Review contractor schedules, progress measurement, and payment applications; verify progress claims and hold contractors to contractual reporting requirements.
• Forecasting and cash flow: Partner with Finance on monthly forecasts, accruals, cash flow projections, and capitalization.
• Continuous improvement: Capture lessons learned and contribute to the evolution of DCI controls standards, templates, and systems.

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years of project controls experience on large construction or capital projects, including at least 3 years in a lead or management role.
• Experience on mission-critical or complex facilities, such as data centers, power generation, substations, or advanced manufacturing.
• Strong working knowledge of CPM scheduling, cost control, earned value management, and change management.