Project Controls Manager (AI Data Centers)

Location: Remote; ability to travel to project sites and support critical reporting or project deadlines when required.

Company

hirify.global is delivering an AI data center portfolio through an owner-side project management organization.

What you will do

• Establish project-controls standards, calendars, coding structures, reporting requirements, and governance practices across the AI data center portfolio.
• Manage project budgets, commitments, actual costs, accruals, cash-flow forecasts, contingency, trends, and estimates at completion.
• Coordinate cost and schedule data, validate progress, and maintain consistent milestones and forecasting assumptions.
• Review contractor and vendor pay applications, change orders, cost-to-complete reports, and controls deliverables.
• Maintain change-control, trend-management, risk, and opportunity registers, including mitigation tracking and claims-avoidance records.
• Produce stage-gate, monthly, and executive reporting while coordinating internal and external project-controls resources.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, finance, business, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• Seven or more years of progressive project-controls experience supporting large capital construction programs, such as data centers, power, utilities, industrial facilities, or other mission-critical infrastructure.
• Strong experience with cost control, forecasting, change management, risk management, progress measurement, and executive project reporting.
• Experience reviewing contractor pay applications, change orders, cost-to-complete reports, construction contracts, and delivery models such as design-build, guaranteed maximum price, or lump-sum structures.
• Experience with a PMIS and cost, schedule, and reporting tools such as Oracle Primavera Cloud, Unifier, Primavera P6, NetSuite, or comparable systems.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, including reconciling conflicting information and presenting conclusions, assumptions, and risks to leadership.

Nice to have

• Owner-side project-controls experience across a multi-project or multi-site capital portfolio.
• Experience with hyperscale data centers, high-performance computing facilities, or other mission-critical construction programs.
• Experience building or improving project-controls functions and coordinating blended internal and consultant teams.
• AACE certification, Project Management Professional certification, or an equivalent credential.

Culture & Benefits

• Team-oriented and inclusive working environment.
• Professional, respectful, and collaborative approach to communication.
• Remote workplace with project-site travel when required.