Director, Project Controls, AMERS

Position Overview

Nscale is building the infrastructure that powers AI. Our North American Data Center Infrastructure (DCI) group is delivering a pipeline of large-scale, high-density data center campuses where speed to power and speed to customer handover decide commercial success. Reliable, well-run scheduling is how we plan that speed and protect it.

The Director, Project Controls – Scheduling leads schedule management across the DCI North America portfolio. This leader owns the scheduling function — its people, standards, and systems — and is accountable for a credible, integrated view of time across every campus, from site selection and utility power through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover. They give executives and customers a single, trusted answer to the question "when will it be ready, and what could stop it?"

Key Responsibilities

• Scheduling leadership: Build, lead, and develop the North American scheduling team, including Project Controls – Scheduling leads, Schedulers, and Planners; set hiring plans, structure, and career paths.
• Portfolio master schedule: Own the DCI portfolio-level schedule that rolls up every project's Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), showing key milestones, interdependencies, shared resources, and capacity delivery dates across all campuses.
• Scheduling standards: Establish and enforce DCI scheduling standards — WBS, activity coding, calendars, level-of-detail requirements, baselining, update cadence, and templates — so every project schedule is consistent and comparable.
• Schedule quality and assurance: Set schedule health metrics (e.g., DCMA 14-point), run regular schedule reviews, and challenge project and contractor schedules for logic, realism, and completeness.
• Critical path and milestones: Maintain clear visibility of portfolio and project critical paths, including utility interconnection and energization, long-lead equipment, permitting, and customer handover commitments; escalate threats early.
• Schedule risk analysis: Lead quantitative schedule risk analysis (Monte Carlo / QSRA), set schedule contingency strategy, and provide confidence levels (P50 / P80) for key delivery dates.
• Contractor schedule management: Define contractual scheduling requirements for EPC, design-build, and trade contracts; oversee review and acceptance of contractor baselines and updates; and lead delay, time impact, and recovery analysis.
• Executive reporting: Own monthly and quarterly schedule reporting to DCI leadership, the executive committee, and customer-facing teams, including milestone forecasts, trends, and recommended actions.
• Scheduling systems: Select, implement, and continuously improve scheduling and schedule analytics platforms (e.g., Primavera P6 EPPM, schedule risk and quality tools, and dashboards), and integrate them with cost and project controls reporting.
• Cross-functional partnership: Work closely with Project Directors, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Commissioning, Cost Management, and Commercial teams so schedule, cost, and contract positions stay aligned.

Qualifications

Required

• 15+ years of planning and scheduling experience on large capital projects, with at least 5 years leading scheduling or project controls teams.
• Experience scheduling mission-critical or complex facilities — data centers, power generation, substations, semiconductor, or comparable industrial builds — valued at $500M+.
• Expert-level CPM scheduling knowledge and hands-on mastery of Primavera P6, including multi-project and enterprise environments.
• Proven experience with quantitative schedule risk analysis, schedule quality assessment, and delay / time impact analysis.
• Track record of setting up scheduling standards, governance, and reporting from the ground up in a fast-growing organization.
• Strong executive presence and the ability to explain complex schedule positions clearly to senior and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred

• Hyperscale or colocation data center program experience, including multi-site and phased campus delivery and integrated commissioning (L1–L5).
• AACE PSP or PMI-SP certification; AACE CCP or PMP a plus.
• Owner-side scheduling leadership on EPC, CM-at-risk, and design-build contracts.
• Experience with forensic schedule analysis and claims support.
• Experience implementing Primavera P6 EPPM, schedule analytics tools, or Power BI schedule dashboards at enterprise scale.

Character & Conduct

Tools & Software

• Primavera P6 EPPM (expert level, required)
• Schedule quality and analysis tools (e.g., Acumen Fuse, Schedule Analyzer)
• Schedule risk analysis tools (e.g., Safran Risk, Primavera Risk Analysis, Acumen Risk)
• Microsoft Project (working knowledge)
• Power BI or similar reporting / dashboard tools
• Microsoft Excel and the Microsoft 365 suite

Work Environment & Schedule

• Hybrid role based in North America, with regular travel (approximately 25–40%) to active DCI project sites, contractor offices, and Nscale locations.
• Fast-paced, high-growth environment with multiple concurrent projects; occasional work outside standard hours to support executive reporting cycles and critical project milestones.
• Site visits require adherence to all Nscale and contractor safety programs and use of appropriate PPE.

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