Director, Project Controls, AMERS

Position Overview Nscale is building the infrastructure that powers AI. Our North American Data Center Infrastructure (DCI) group is delivering a pipeline of large-scale, high-density data center campuses where speed to power and speed to customer handover decide commercial success. Reliable, well-run scheduling is how we plan that speed and protect it. The Director, Project Controls – Scheduling leads schedule management across the DCI North America portfolio. This leader owns the scheduling function — its people, standards, and systems — and is accountable for a credible, integrated view of time across every campus, from site selection and utility power through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover. They give executives and customers a single, trusted answer to the question "when will it be ready, and what could stop it?" Key Responsibilities Scheduling leadership: Build, lead, and develop the North American scheduling team, including Project Controls – Scheduling leads, Schedulers, and Planners; set hiring plans, structure, and career paths. Portfolio master schedule: Own the DCI portfolio-level schedule that rolls up every project's Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), showing key milestones, interdependencies, shared resources, and capacity delivery dates across all campuses. Scheduling standards: Establish and enforce DCI scheduling standards — WBS, activity coding, calendars, level-of-detail requirements, baselining, update cadence, and templates — so every project schedule is consistent and comparable. Schedule quality and assurance: Set schedule health metrics (e.g., DCMA 14-point), run regular schedule reviews, and challenge project and contractor schedules for logic, realism, and completeness. Critical path and milestones: Maintain clear visibility of portfolio and project critical paths, including utility interconnection and energization, long-lead equipment, permitting, and customer handover commitments; escalate threats early. Schedule risk analysis: Lead quantitative schedule risk analysis (Monte Carlo / QSRA), set schedule contingency strategy, and provide confidence levels (P50 / P80) for key delivery dates. Contractor schedule management: Define contractual scheduling requirements for EPC, design-build, and trade contracts; oversee review and acceptance of contractor baselines and updates; and lead delay, time impact, and recovery analysis. Executive reporting: Own monthly and quarterly schedule reporting to DCI leadership, the executive committee, and customer-facing teams, including milestone forecasts, trends, and recommended actions. Scheduling systems: Select, implement, and continuously improve scheduling and schedule analytics platforms (e.g., Primavera P6 EPPM, schedule risk and quality tools, and dashboards), and integrate them with cost and project controls reporting. Cross-functional partnership: Work closely with Project Directors, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Commissioning, Cost Management, and Commercial teams so schedule, cost, and contract positions stay aligned. Qualifications Required 15+ years of planning and scheduling experience on large capital projects, with at least 5 years leading scheduling or project controls teams. Experience scheduling mission-critical or complex facilities — data centers, power generation, substations, semiconductor, or comparable industrial builds — valued at $500M+. Expert-level CPM scheduling knowledge and hands-on mastery of Primavera P6, including multi-project and enterprise environments. Proven experience with quantitative schedule risk analysis, schedule quality assessment, and delay / time impact analysis. Track record of setting up scheduling standards, governance, and reporting from the ground up in a fast-growing organization. Strong executive presence and the ability to explain complex schedule positions clearly to senior and non-technical audiences. Bachelor's degree in Constru…

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