Project Controls Director, APAC

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, region, and national levels.

• Contribute to the month-end financial forecasting process and ensure risk exposure and gainful opportunities are accurately reported

• 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 cost and schedule impacts of proposed changes.

• 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 reported.

• 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.) and Schedule of Values (SOV) to ensure consistent data capture and accurate cross-referencing of budgets and actuals.

• Maintain program level schedule updates, prepare site specific schedules, and cost/schedule customer deliverables.

• Leverage leading and lagging indicators to help project teams identify impacts proactively and support development of mitigation plans

• 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 extracted from the Risk/Upside Log into other reports.

• Provide project teams with schedule lookahead metrics o Run analyses to compare the work in place to the progress billings to report risk to budget or schedule.

• 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 improve project estimating process at each development stage including conceptual design, SD, DD, CD

• Partner with CCF to establish cost standardization, benchmarking, labor analysis/efficiency and forecasting/ variance analysis to identify risks as well as opportunities to optimize ongoing and future builds.

• Support project teams in the development of Schedule of Values

• Review and perform health check analysis on contractor's baseline and progress schedules.

• Additional duties as assigned by Management

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.

• the business evolves.