Vice President Project Controls

Position Overview

Nscale is building the infrastructure that powers AI. Our Americas Data Center Infrastructure group delivers large scale, high density campuses where timely, evidence based decisions are essential to speed, capital discipline, and customer commitments.

The Vice President Project Controls AMERS establishes and leads the project controls function for the Americas portfolio. This executive sets the governance, systems, and operating cadence that give leaders a trusted view of cost, schedule, risk, and forecast outcomes across all active campuses.

The role is strategic as well as operational. It creates right sized controls that improve data accuracy and consistency without burdening project teams or slowing an agile business. The Vice President translates complex delivery information into clear executive decisions, develops a high performing project controls organization, and partners closely with Delivery, Development, Design, Procurement, Finance, and Operations.

Key Responsibilities

Project Controls Strategy and Governance

• Establish the Americas project controls strategy, governance model, minimum standards, and reporting architecture for cost, schedule, risk, change, and forecasting.
• Create practical policies, templates, and stage gates that provide consistent portfolio data and decision discipline while remaining appropriate to project phase, scale, and pace.
• Define data ownership, update cadence, quality checks, and escalation paths so project controls information is timely, accurate, comparable, and trusted.
• Continuously simplify and improve controls to prevent data overload, eliminate duplicate effort, and keep project teams focused on delivery outcomes.
• Lead adoption of common project controls systems, dashboards, and analytics that connect project-level detail to portfolio and executive reporting.

Cost and Commercial Controls

• Set standards for budget development, cost coding, estimates at completion, cash flow forecasting, contingency management, commitments, accruals, and change control.
• Provide independent challenge and assurance of project budgets, forecasts, cost risks, and recovery actions; ensure material trends are identified early and clearly explained.
• Partner with Delivery, Procurement, Commercial, and Finance on contract administration, change management, claims exposure, and capital planning.
• Own consolidated portfolio cost reporting and provide a clear view of budget status, forecast variance, cash needs, contingency position, and key commercial risks.