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Project Controls Director, APAC
Vantage Data Centers
Sydney, QAT
Full Time
Director
4 weeks ago
Project ControlsSchedulingCost EstimatingChange ManagementRisk ManagementPrimavera P6
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About the Role
Vantage Data Centers seeks a Director of Project Controls to lead project controls functions across the APAC region, including scheduling, cost estimating, change management, and reporting.
Key Skills for This Role
Project ControlsSchedulingCost EstimatingChange ManagementRisk ManagementPrimavera P6
Responsibilities
- Provide overall leadership to architect and improve project controls system, processes and specifications.
- Collaborate with Innovation Engineering, Site Selection/New Site Development, and Construction teams to provide end to end support.
- Oversee the production of project schedules throughout project lifecycle.
- Establish useable budgets and manage costs to meet or exceed cost targets.
- Leverage cost databases using Vantage software programs to establish budget accuracy.
- Contribute to the month end financial forecasting process and ensure risk exposure and gainful opportunities are accurately reported.
- Develop risk management plans and maintain them throughout the project with mitigation strategies.
- Establish a change management workflow incorporating existing processes and best practices.
- Prepare detailed cost, schedule, risk, and upside reports for project teams and management.
- Develop dashboards with real time telemetry at project, site, region and global levels.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying or certification as Project Controls Manager or equivalent required; MBA is helpful.
- 8 years of experience in project controls management required; 10 to 12 years preferred
- Global construction experience is required
- Data Center experience is strongly preferred, but not required
- Experience in P6 software and interface with accounting software like Yardi and Anaplan strongly preferred
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Strong analytical and interpersonal skills
Full Job Posting
Position Overview
- Vantage is looking for a Director, Project Controls, to support project controls functions as part of our end to end data center development cycle.
- As a leader, you will drive a company 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.
- Cost Management: Establish useable budgets and manage costs to meet or exceed cost targets; Leverage cost databases using Vantage software programs to establish budget accuracy and optimize financial results; Utilize cost accounting software dashboards with real time telemetry at project, site, regi
- Risk and Change Management: At project start, develop risk management plans and maintain them throughout the project with mitigation strategies; Establish a change management workflow incorporating existing processes and best practices; Support Development design and Operations evaluations to assess
- Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Utilize data to produce real time status, KPIs, and predictive analytics; Prepare detailed cost, schedule, risk, and upside reports for project teams and management; Contribute to the month end financial forecasting process and ensure risk exposure is accurately
- 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; Propagate use of standard breakdown structures (WBS, CBS, etc
- 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 extrac
- Development Projects (Preconstruction and Construction): Support time impact analysis throughout development stage gates; Ensure contractors comply with cost/schedule formats and data inputs enabling efficient data management; Work with project teams and Construction Cost and Finance (CCF) to improv
Job Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying or certification as Project Controls Manager or equivalent required, MBA is helpful.
- 8 years of experience in project controls management required 10 to 12 years preferred
- Global construction experience is required, and data Center experience is strongly preferred, but not required.
- Understanding general project controls technical skills and the integration of all of the components including organizational, planning, accounting, analysis and revision process areas.
- Experience in P6 software and interface with accounting software like Yardi and Anaplan strongly preferred.
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Strong analytical and interpersonal skills
- Travel required is expected and may increase over time as the business evolve.
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