Project Manager, PMO (Leased).

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.
• Ability to interpret and challenge contractor schedules, cost reports, and progress claims.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication, including presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred

• Hyperscale or colocation data center experience, including MEP-heavy and phased delivery.
• AACE (PSP, CCP, EVP) or PMP certification.
• Owner-side or owner's representative project controls experience.
• Experience standing up controls on a new project or in a growing organization.

Character & Conduct

Tools & Software

• Primavera P6 (required)
• Cost management platforms (e.g., EcoSys, Procore, or similar)
• Risk analysis tools (e.g., Safran Risk, Acumen Risk, or Primavera Risk Analysis)
• Power BI or similar reporting / dashboard tools
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and the Microsoft 365 suite

Work Environment & Schedule

• Hybrid role based in North America, with regular travel (approximately 25–50%) to active DCI project sites; extended site assignments may be required during key project phases.
• Fast-paced construction environment with tight milestones; occasional work outside standard hours to support reporting cycles and critical project events.
• Site visits require adherence to all Nscale and contractor safety programs and use of appropriate PPE.