Project Controls Lead

Summary

Join Avicado Construction Technology Services as a Project Controls Lead and play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our clients' day-to-day activities. You will develop and implement project controls strategies, driving exceptional project outcomes. This role requires leadership of a remote team and a minimum of 7+ years of construction project controls experience, with a preference for data center experience. The ideal candidate is a high performer, self-starter, and team player. Avicado offers a competitive compensation package, including health insurance, 401k matching, flexible PTO, and remote work options. We are a close-knit team with a high-performance culture and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in construction project controls
• 5+ years of experience in data center or related construction of large-scale projects (>$250M)
• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction
• Ability to partner with the Account Leadership team to identify and capture growth opportunities within the client’s data center design and construction program
• Ability to grow and develop a Project Controls Team
• Provide leadership, strategic direction, and decision-making across the portfolio, ensuring program alignment with client objectives
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to tailor communication to your stakeholders
• Ability to work with a remote and geographically dispersed team (multiple time zones)
• Experience with construction project management systems (i.e., Primavera P6, Unifier, Microsoft Project, e-Builder, Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement project controls strategies, policies, and procedures
• Provide leadership to the team for a data center client
• Oversee and manage the project controls function, ensuring effective monitoring, analysis, and management of project performance metrics such as schedule, cost, and quality
• Establish a change management system in compliance with contract conditions and procedures; monitor and enforce the change management system for assigned projects
• Manage cost/change control, including change order review, negotiation, and recommendations, delay analysis
• Monitor, track and analyze schedule progress in the field (actual vs. forecast)
• Partner closely with the Construction Technology Strategy team to aid in the implementation of a PMIS and ensure PMIS aligns with the project controls strategy
• Support the preconstruction efforts in the review of General Contractor contracts and commercial terms, gathering of historical data, incorporation of master contract terms, communication, and management of finalized internal budget
• Review the project contracts and ensure that all the contract conditions (invoicing, reporting, change management, etc.) are applied and fulfilled for project set-up, project tracking and reporting, and project closeout
• Review financial reports to ensure compliance with budget targets, reconciliation of project charges against approved contracts and support gathering data related to unit costs within sites
• Work closely with the Procurement and Equipment team to ensure alignment with the project controls strategy and provide support and guidance as needed
• Analyze and communicate the projects Project Controls Health (financial, change, and risk) to project and leadership team
• Contract Administration (retention, T&Cs, insurance, allowances, contingency, incentives)

Preferred Qualifications

• 10 + years of relevant experience leading project control programs for major data center construction or construction programs (>$500M)
• Ability to develop high level budgets for data centers and general understanding of key benchmark data
• Previously managed a Project Controls team
• Background in leveraging PMIS tools and other construction technology systems to streamline business processes and optimize efficiencies
• Experience with G-Suite Products (i.e., Google Sheets, Google Slides, etc.)

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health insurance
• 401k with employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Remote work
• Philanthropic Matching Gift Program