Director, Project Controls, Project & Development Services (Data Centers)

Location: Ashburn, Virginia; Austin, Texas; Raleigh, North Carolina; or Chicago, Illinois, USA

Salary: $161,500–$190,000 per year

Company

Cushman & Wakefield provides project and development services for major capital programs and data center projects.

What you will do

• Lead enterprise-level schedule management frameworks, including tools, governance, processes, and reporting standards.
• Advise client leadership on program phasing, sequencing, delivery risks, and strategic planning.
• Develop integrated master schedules spanning design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operations.
• Align internal teams, contractors, designers, and third parties around a single source-of-truth schedule.
• Establish KPIs and executive dashboards, and lead scenario planning, quantitative risk assessments, and mitigation analysis.
• Build and mentor scheduling and planning teams while supporting proposals, client presentations, and project controls thought leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, construction management, project management, or a related field.
• 12–15+ years of planning and scheduling experience on large-scale capital programs covering design and construction.
• Program- or portfolio-level experience in a client-facing leadership capacity.
• Advanced technology, mission-critical, and/or data center project experience is required.
• Expertise in Primavera P6 is required.
• Experience leading teams in complex matrixed environments, influencing senior stakeholders, and connecting schedule performance with cost, risk, and business outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience with additional planning tools and data visualization platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts.
• Retirement savings plans, life insurance, and disability insurance.
• Paid and unpaid time away from work.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation support for applicants with disabilities.