Senior Director, Cost Control
5C · Springfield, OH · 1 mo ago
Full-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for lists,
for prose. Do not repeat job title as heading. Do not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc. Preserve all substantive info. Include sections only when posting has real specific content. Need to parse the posting.
Let's extract sections:
- About the role: The "Role Summary" paragraph: "5C Data Centers designs, builds, and delivers hyperscale and AI-ready data center campuses across the U.S., partnering with hyperscalers, developers, and colocation providers to bring mission-critical infrastructure online. We move fast without cutting corners on safety, quality, or cost discipline. The Senior Director, Cost Control leads project and portfolio cost control across development, pre-construction, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Reporting to the VP, Project Controls + Cost, this role establishes cost standards, maintains budgets and forecasts, quantifies risk, and delivers timely cost insight as the functional counterpart to the Senior Director, Project Controls."
That's about the role.
- Responsibilities: The "What You Will Do" section includes many bullet-like paragraphs. We can treat as list items. Could group under headings like Cost-Control Strategy..., Budget Development..., etc. But we need to use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can create a
with each bullet as - . The content includes many sentences; we can break them into separate
- items. However we must preserve all substantive info; we can keep each paragraph as a list item.
- Requirements/Qualifications: The "What You Bring" section includes bullet-like items: Bachelor's degree..., 10+ years..., Demonstrated control..., Experience in data centers..., Advanced technical cost capability..., Working knowledge..., Strong ability... . Also includes "ability to travel regularly to project and vendor locations." That's part of requirements.
- Skills: Might be covered in "What You Bring" but we could separate Skills section if there is explicit skill list. The posting includes "Advanced spreadsheet and enterprise cost-system capability". Could be skill. But we can combine into Qualifications.
- Benefits: The "Why Join 5C Data Centers?" includes "Career Growth", "Industry Leadership", "Entrepreneurial Culture", "Comprehensive Rewards Competitive pay plus meaningful, lasting impact on the work you do." Also "Life at 5C" description. Benefits: "Competitive pay plus meaningful, lasting impact". Not specific like health insurance etc. Might be considered benefits but vague. The instruction: never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does state "Comprehensive Rewards Competitive pay plus meaningful, lasting impact on the work you do." That's a benefit statement. So we can include Benefits section with that sentence.
- Pay: Not specified exact numbers. The posting does not give pay range. So we should NOT create Pay section because it's not stated. Avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". So omit Pay.
- Schedule: Not specified. So omit Schedule.
- Also we have "Location USA WORK ARRANGEMENT Hybrid Travel Requirements 25-50%". That's metadata; we can fold into a short
maybe under About the role or separate? The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. So we can include a
with location, work arrangement, travel.
We must not include boilerplate like equal opportunity employer etc. Remove that.
Now produce HTML fragment.
Structure:
Location: USA • Work Arrangement: Hybrid • Travel: 25‑50%
About the role
... (role summary)
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- ...
...
Benefits
Comprehensive rewards: competitive pay plus meaningful, lasting impact on the work you do.
Potentially also include "Skills" but we can incorporate into Requirements.
Make sure not to repeat job title.
Now extract the role summary text exactly as in posting.
Role Summary paragraph: "5C Data Centers designs, builds, and delivers hyperscale and AI-ready data center campuses across the U.S., partnering with hyperscalers, developers, and colocation providers to bring mission-critical infrastructure online. We move fast without cutting corners on safety, quality, or cost discipline. The Senior Director, Cost Control leads project and portfolio cost control across development, pre-construction, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Reporting to the VP, Project Controls + Cost, this role establishes cost standards, maintains budgets and forecasts, quantifies risk, and delivers timely cost insight as the functional counterpart to the Senior Director, Project Controls."
We'll keep that.
Now responsibilities: The "What You Will Do" section includes multiple subheadings: Cost-Control Strategy, Governance and Functional Integration; Budget Development and Cost Baseline Management; Commitments, Actuals, Accruals and Forecast-at-Completion; Change Pricing, Commercial Exposure and Claims Prevention; Payment Validation and Cost-to-Progress Reconciliation; Cost Risk, Contingency and Scenario Analysis; Procurement, Contracting and Buyout Support; Cash Flow, Capital Planning and Finance Partnership; Cost Reporting and Executive Decision Support; Systems, Data and Reporting Automation; Team Leadership and Capability Building; Closeout, Benchmarking and Lessons Learned.
We can turn each of these into list items, preserving the description after each heading. Let's extract each bullet.
I'll copy the text under each heading.
1. Cost-Control Strategy, Governance and Functional Integration
"Establish the operating model. Maintain cost policies, Cost Management Plans, coding, data definitions, reporting cadence, approval thresholds and escalation requirements within the Vice President's controls framework.Align cost and schedule structures. Map the cost breakdown structure to the Project Controls WBS, procurement packages, contracts, project phases and capital categories using common status dates.Enforce data quality. Require timely, complete and traceable support for budgets, commitments, forecasts, changes, contingency, cash flow and final account."
We can combine into one - with sentences.
2. Budget Development and Cost Baseline Management
"Validate budget completeness. Partner with Estimating, Development, Pre-Construction, Engineering and Procurement to confirm scope, market pricing, escalation, owner costs, allowances and risk-based contingency.Create controlled budgets. Translate approved estimates and funding into documented control budgets with clear assumptions, exclusions, package ownership and funding sources.Protect baseline integrity. Maintain original and current baselines and an audit trail for authorized transfers, supplemental funding, scope reallocations and rebaselines."
3. Commitments, Actuals, Accruals and Forecast-at-Completion
"Maintain complete cost capture. Control commitments for general contractors, utilities, owner-furnished equipment, professional services, logistics, commissioning and other developer-direct scope.Lead bottom-up forecasting. Maintain ETC and EAC based on remaining scope, pending change, productivity, schedule impacts supplied by Project Controls, escalation, claims exposure and closeout.Reconcile and explain movement. Align actuals, accruals and commitments with Finance and identify the cause, impact, mitigation, owner and decision date for material forecast changes."
4. Change Pricing, Commercial Exposure and Claims Prevention
"Own the cost component of change control. Maintain current and potential cost, funding, contingency impact, pricing basis, credits, commercial status and forecast treatment from identification through closeout.Independently evaluate proposed cost. Review scope, quantities, rates, markups, general conditions, escalation, duplication, credits, entitlement and downstream commissioning impacts.Protect the commercial record. Partner with Project Controls, Construction, Procurement, Commercial and Legal to classify cause, quantify exposure, preserve documentation and reduce claims risk."
5. Payment Validation and Cost-to-Progress Reconciliation
"Validate payment positions. Review schedules of value, pay applications, stored materials, retention and milestone claims against contract requirements and independently verified progress.Reconcile cost to delivery. Compare amounts billed with work installed, procurement, quality, commissioning readiness and remaining cost; recommend approval, correction or withholding."
6. Cost Risk, Contingency and Scenario Analysis
"Quantify cost risk and opportunity. Translate the integrated risk register into cost ranges, expected exposure, mitigation cost, decision dates and forecast or contingency treatment.Administer contingency and allowances. Maintain defensible methodology and complete records for drawdown, transfer, recovery, release, authorization and remaining balance.Model material scenarios. Evaluate delay, acceleration, utilities, equipment, site conditions, labor, customer change and commissioning impacts using schedule analysis from Project Controls."
7. Procurement, Contracting and Buyout Support
"Align packages and awards to budget. Confirm scope boundaries, assumptions, exclusions, alternates, rates, escalation, logistics, commissioning responsibility and funding before award.Track buyout and remaining exposure. Monitor variance, unawarded scope, gaps, overlap, long-lead equipment, freight, storage and owner-furnished-equipment interfaces; embed cost-reporting requirements in contracts."
8. Cash Flow, Capital Planning and Finance Partnership
"Develop time-phased cash flow. Align cash requirements with the integrated schedule, contract terms, equipment milestones, utilities, construction progress, commissioning, retention and closeout.Support funding and financial reconciliation. Distinguish timing variance from EAC movement and provide reliable inputs for accruals, capitalization, liquidity, funding and executive decisions while preserving project cost truth."
9. Cost Reporting and Executive Decision Support
"Own project and portfolio cost reporting. Present budget, commitments, actuals, accruals, change, ETC, EAC, variance, contingency, cash flow, cost risk and required decisions concisely.Co-produce integrated controls views. Partner with the Senior Director, Project Controls to reconcile cost, schedule, progress, risk and change using a common data date while preserving source ownership.Translate analysis into action. Identify systemic cost pressure and recommend decisions based on capital, delivery, customer, margin and enterprise implications."
10. Systems, Data and Reporting Automation
"Define cost-system requirements. Establish workflows, coding, permissions, cut-off logic, version control, audit trails and reporting across the PMIS, ERP and business-intelligence environment.Improve quality and efficiency. Automate routine consolidation, create exception reporting and maintain historical cost, change, contingency and vendor-performance intelligence."
11. Team Leadership and Capability Building
"Lead and develop the Cost Control team. Coach the Senior Cost Manager and future resources; define staffing, roles, quality review, performance expectations and succession coverage.Build an ownership culture. Set expectations for candor, field engagement, constructive challenge, data integrity and timely escalation rather than administrative reporting.Improve enterprise cost literacy. Help project and functional leaders understand and act on budget, commitment, forecast, variance, contingency, cash flow and change information."
12. Closeout, Benchmarking and Lessons Learned
"Drive final-account closeout. Resolve pending changes, open commitments, credits, retention, allowances, contingency and final forecast with Construction, Commercial, Procurement and Finance.Return intelligence to the business. Produce a reconciled final cost record and feed estimate-to-actual, change-cause, schedule-cost and vendor lessons into future estimating, procurement and delivery decisions."
Now Requirements/Qualifications: "What You Bring" paragraph:
"Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience; advanced spreadsheet and enterprise cost-system capability; ability to travel regularly to project and vendor locations.10+ years of progressive construction cost control, cost engineering, quantity surveying, or commercial cost-management experience, including leadership responsibility.Demonstrated control of complex, multi-hundred-million-dollar capital projects or portfolios; billion-dollar campus or portfolio experience preferred.Experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, advanced manufacturing, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, energy, utility, or similarly complex infrastructure; direct data center experience strongly preferred.Advanced technical cost capability across budgets
for prose. Do not repeat job title as heading. Do not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate like EEO, application instructions, etc. Preserve all substantive info. Include sections only when posting has real specific content. Need to parse the posting. Let's extract sections: - About the role: The "Role Summary" paragraph: "5C Data Centers designs, builds, and delivers hyperscale and AI-ready data center campuses across the U.S., partnering with hyperscalers, developers, and colocation providers to bring mission-critical infrastructure online. We move fast without cutting corners on safety, quality, or cost discipline. The Senior Director, Cost Control leads project and portfolio cost control across development, pre-construction, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Reporting to the VP, Project Controls + Cost, this role establishes cost standards, maintains budgets and forecasts, quantifies risk, and delivers timely cost insight as the functional counterpart to the Senior Director, Project Controls." That's about the role. - Responsibilities: The "What You Will Do" section includes many bullet-like paragraphs. We can treat as list items. Could group under headings like Cost-Control Strategy..., Budget Development..., etc. But we need to use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can create a
- with each bullet as
- . The content includes many sentences; we can break them into separate
- items. However we must preserve all substantive info; we can keep each paragraph as a list item.
- Requirements/Qualifications: The "What You Bring" section includes bullet-like items: Bachelor's degree..., 10+ years..., Demonstrated control..., Experience in data centers..., Advanced technical cost capability..., Working knowledge..., Strong ability... . Also includes "ability to travel regularly to project and vendor locations." That's part of requirements.
- Skills: Might be covered in "What You Bring" but we could separate Skills section if there is explicit skill list. The posting includes "Advanced spreadsheet and enterprise cost-system capability". Could be skill. But we can combine into Qualifications.
- Benefits: The "Why Join 5C Data Centers?" includes "Career Growth", "Industry Leadership", "Entrepreneurial Culture", "Comprehensive Rewards Competitive pay plus meaningful, lasting impact on the work you do." Also "Life at 5C" description. Benefits: "Competitive pay plus meaningful, lasting impact". Not specific like health insurance etc. Might be considered benefits but vague. The instruction: never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does state "Comprehensive Rewards Competitive pay plus meaningful, lasting impact on the work you do." That's a benefit statement. So we can include Benefits section with that sentence.
- Pay: Not specified exact numbers. The posting does not give pay range. So we should NOT create Pay section because it's not stated. Avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". So omit Pay.
- Schedule: Not specified. So omit Schedule.
- Also we have "Location USA WORK ARRANGEMENT Hybrid Travel Requirements 25-50%". That's metadata; we can fold into a short
maybe under About the role or separate? The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. So we can include a
with location, work arrangement, travel. We must not include boilerplate like equal opportunity employer etc. Remove that. Now produce HTML fragment. Structure:
Location: USA • Work Arrangement: Hybrid • Travel: 25‑50%
About the role
... (role summary)
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Benefits
Comprehensive rewards: competitive pay plus meaningful, lasting impact on the work you do.
Potentially also include "Skills" but we can incorporate into Requirements. Make sure not to repeat job title. Now extract the role summary text exactly as in posting. Role Summary paragraph: "5C Data Centers designs, builds, and delivers hyperscale and AI-ready data center campuses across the U.S., partnering with hyperscalers, developers, and colocation providers to bring mission-critical infrastructure online. We move fast without cutting corners on safety, quality, or cost discipline. The Senior Director, Cost Control leads project and portfolio cost control across development, pre-construction, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout. Reporting to the VP, Project Controls + Cost, this role establishes cost standards, maintains budgets and forecasts, quantifies risk, and delivers timely cost insight as the functional counterpart to the Senior Director, Project Controls." We'll keep that. Now responsibilities: The "What You Will Do" section includes multiple subheadings: Cost-Control Strategy, Governance and Functional Integration; Budget Development and Cost Baseline Management; Commitments, Actuals, Accruals and Forecast-at-Completion; Change Pricing, Commercial Exposure and Claims Prevention; Payment Validation and Cost-to-Progress Reconciliation; Cost Risk, Contingency and Scenario Analysis; Procurement, Contracting and Buyout Support; Cash Flow, Capital Planning and Finance Partnership; Cost Reporting and Executive Decision Support; Systems, Data and Reporting Automation; Team Leadership and Capability Building; Closeout, Benchmarking and Lessons Learned. We can turn each of these into list items, preserving the description after each heading. Let's extract each bullet. I'll copy the text under each heading. 1. Cost-Control Strategy, Governance and Functional Integration "Establish the operating model. Maintain cost policies, Cost Management Plans, coding, data definitions, reporting cadence, approval thresholds and escalation requirements within the Vice President's controls framework.Align cost and schedule structures. Map the cost breakdown structure to the Project Controls WBS, procurement packages, contracts, project phases and capital categories using common status dates.Enforce data quality. Require timely, complete and traceable support for budgets, commitments, forecasts, changes, contingency, cash flow and final account." We can combine into one - with sentences. 2. Budget Development and Cost Baseline Management "Validate budget completeness. Partner with Estimating, Development, Pre-Construction, Engineering and Procurement to confirm scope, market pricing, escalation, owner costs, allowances and risk-based contingency.Create controlled budgets. Translate approved estimates and funding into documented control budgets with clear assumptions, exclusions, package ownership and funding sources.Protect baseline integrity. Maintain original and current baselines and an audit trail for authorized transfers, supplemental funding, scope reallocations and rebaselines." 3. Commitments, Actuals, Accruals and Forecast-at-Completion "Maintain complete cost capture. Control commitments for general contractors, utilities, owner-furnished equipment, professional services, logistics, commissioning and other developer-direct scope.Lead bottom-up forecasting. Maintain ETC and EAC based on remaining scope, pending change, productivity, schedule impacts supplied by Project Controls, escalation, claims exposure and closeout.Reconcile and explain movement. Align actuals, accruals and commitments with Finance and identify the cause, impact, mitigation, owner and decision date for material forecast changes." 4. Change Pricing, Commercial Exposure and Claims Prevention "Own the cost component of change control. Maintain current and potential cost, funding, contingency impact, pricing basis, credits, commercial status and forecast treatment from identification through closeout.Independently evaluate proposed cost. Review scope, quantities, rates, markups, general conditions, escalation, duplication, credits, entitlement and downstream commissioning impacts.Protect the commercial record. Partner with Project Controls, Construction, Procurement, Commercial and Legal to classify cause, quantify exposure, preserve documentation and reduce claims risk." 5. Payment Validation and Cost-to-Progress Reconciliation "Validate payment positions. Review schedules of value, pay applications, stored materials, retention and milestone claims against contract requirements and independently verified progress.Reconcile cost to delivery. Compare amounts billed with work installed, procurement, quality, commissioning readiness and remaining cost; recommend approval, correction or withholding." 6. Cost Risk, Contingency and Scenario Analysis "Quantify cost risk and opportunity. Translate the integrated risk register into cost ranges, expected exposure, mitigation cost, decision dates and forecast or contingency treatment.Administer contingency and allowances. Maintain defensible methodology and complete records for drawdown, transfer, recovery, release, authorization and remaining balance.Model material scenarios. Evaluate delay, acceleration, utilities, equipment, site conditions, labor, customer change and commissioning impacts using schedule analysis from Project Controls." 7. Procurement, Contracting and Buyout Support "Align packages and awards to budget. Confirm scope boundaries, assumptions, exclusions, alternates, rates, escalation, logistics, commissioning responsibility and funding before award.Track buyout and remaining exposure. Monitor variance, unawarded scope, gaps, overlap, long-lead equipment, freight, storage and owner-furnished-equipment interfaces; embed cost-reporting requirements in contracts." 8. Cash Flow, Capital Planning and Finance Partnership "Develop time-phased cash flow. Align cash requirements with the integrated schedule, contract terms, equipment milestones, utilities, construction progress, commissioning, retention and closeout.Support funding and financial reconciliation. Distinguish timing variance from EAC movement and provide reliable inputs for accruals, capitalization, liquidity, funding and executive decisions while preserving project cost truth." 9. Cost Reporting and Executive Decision Support "Own project and portfolio cost reporting. Present budget, commitments, actuals, accruals, change, ETC, EAC, variance, contingency, cash flow, cost risk and required decisions concisely.Co-produce integrated controls views. Partner with the Senior Director, Project Controls to reconcile cost, schedule, progress, risk and change using a common data date while preserving source ownership.Translate analysis into action. Identify systemic cost pressure and recommend decisions based on capital, delivery, customer, margin and enterprise implications." 10. Systems, Data and Reporting Automation "Define cost-system requirements. Establish workflows, coding, permissions, cut-off logic, version control, audit trails and reporting across the PMIS, ERP and business-intelligence environment.Improve quality and efficiency. Automate routine consolidation, create exception reporting and maintain historical cost, change, contingency and vendor-performance intelligence." 11. Team Leadership and Capability Building "Lead and develop the Cost Control team. Coach the Senior Cost Manager and future resources; define staffing, roles, quality review, performance expectations and succession coverage.Build an ownership culture. Set expectations for candor, field engagement, constructive challenge, data integrity and timely escalation rather than administrative reporting.Improve enterprise cost literacy. Help project and functional leaders understand and act on budget, commitment, forecast, variance, contingency, cash flow and change information." 12. Closeout, Benchmarking and Lessons Learned "Drive final-account closeout. Resolve pending changes, open commitments, credits, retention, allowances, contingency and final forecast with Construction, Commercial, Procurement and Finance.Return intelligence to the business. Produce a reconciled final cost record and feed estimate-to-actual, change-cause, schedule-cost and vendor lessons into future estimating, procurement and delivery decisions." Now Requirements/Qualifications: "What You Bring" paragraph: "Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience; advanced spreadsheet and enterprise cost-system capability; ability to travel regularly to project and vendor locations.10+ years of progressive construction cost control, cost engineering, quantity surveying, or commercial cost-management experience, including leadership responsibility.Demonstrated control of complex, multi-hundred-million-dollar capital projects or portfolios; billion-dollar campus or portfolio experience preferred.Experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, advanced manufacturing, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, energy, utility, or similarly complex infrastructure; direct data center experience strongly preferred.Advanced technical cost capability across budgets