Senior Project Controls Lead

About the role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Data Center Delivery Organization is searching for a Sr. Project Controls Lead to support delivery of OCI’s Abilene AI Data Center. This role manages project controls across schedule, cost, risk, procurement readiness, logistics visibility, and delivery performance.

Responsibilities

• Support integrated project controls for assigned OCI data center delivery scopes, including schedule tracking, milestone reporting, forecasting, cost visibility, risk tracking, and leadership updates.
• Maintain project controls tools and trackers, including schedules, milestone trackers, action logs, risk registers, issue logs, recovery plans, and project health dashboards.
• Track project performance across schedule, cost, procurement readiness, material delivery, supplier status, manufacturing alignment, logistics readiness, field execution, safety trends, and mitigation closure.
• Identify critical-path risks, schedule slippage, dependencies, procurement gaps, supplier constraints, manufacturing bottlenecks, logistics risks, and field execution blockers.
• Partner with project managers, construction teams, supply chain, suppliers, logistics providers, manufacturing partners, and technical stakeholders to validate project status and improve schedule predictability.
• Support schedule development and maintenance, including baseline tracking, variance analysis, lookahead reporting, progress updates, and recovery forecasting.
• Track cost and change impacts, including budget risks, forecast changes, pending issues, potential claims, and project-level variance narratives.
• Cook up long-lead procurement, supplier readiness, material availability, manufacturing progress, and logistics plans against project execution needs.
• Support prefab, modular delivery, manufacturing coordination, and industrialized delivery by aligning manufacturing status with site readiness and installation requirements.
• Prepare project controls reporting for leadership, including KPI dashboards, variance summaries, risk updates, recovery recommendations, and decision-support materials.
• Conduct project status reviews through field engagement, site walks, supplier check-ins, construction partner updates, and manufacturing reviews.
• Escalate risks early with clear ownership, recommended actions, due dates, dependencies, and recovery paths.
• Support project controls reviews, governance forums, coordination meetings, action tracking, and follow-up discipline.
• Convert project data into concise insights that help leadership understand delivery risks, tradeoffs, and required decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in project controls, project management, construction delivery, program management, infrastructure delivery, supply chain coordination, operational reporting, or related fields.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Business, Supply Chain, Operations, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale construction, infrastructure, data center, mission-critical, industrial, manufacturing, energy, utilities, or complex capital delivery programs.
• Working knowledge of schedule tracking, milestone management, cost tracking, forecasting, risk management, change visibility, and project reporting.
• Experience with integrated project schedules and project controls reporting tools.
• Ability to analyze project data, identify trends, summarize risks, and translate findings into action-oriented recommendations.
• Experience maintaining trackers, dashboards, risk logs, issue logs, action registers, recovery plans, and leadership updates.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex project information clearly to project teams, stakeholders, and leadership.
• Ability to work across construction, engineering, supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, finance, and operations teams.
• Strong attention to detail, follow-through, and ownership of recurring project controls processes.
• Ability to influence accountability and follow-up without direct authority.
• Willingness to work from Abilene, Texas and travel as needed to support project delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting hyperscale data center delivery, mission-critical construction, semiconductor, industrial, manufacturing, energy, utilities, or other complex infrastructure programs.
• Experience with Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, MS Project, Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet, Excel, or similar tools.
• Experience with schedule variance analysis, critical-path analysis, lookahead planning, cost forecasting, change tracking, and recovery planning.
• Experience coordinating supply chain readiness, long-lead procurement, logistics planning, supplier performance, manufacturing readiness, or material flow.
• Familiarity with prefab, modular construction, offsite manufacturing, industrialized construction, or field-installation readiness.
• Experience preparing executive dashboards, KPI summaries, project health reports, variance narratives, and risk-based decision briefs.
• Demonstrated ability to improve reporting accuracy, schedule visibility, mitigation closure, supplier readiness, logistics performance, and project execution discipline.
• PMP, PMI-SP, PSP, CCP, Lean Six Sigma, or similar certification preferred but not required.