Position Overview

Vantage is looking for a Director, Project Controls, to support project controls functions as part of our end to end data centre development cycle. As a leader, you will drive a company program supporting four main pillars within project controls including scheduling, cost estimating, change management and reporting.

You will be charged with building and leading a great team and leveraging internal and external resources to enable delivery teams to improve speed to market, drive to optimized returns through lower build costs, help manage/mitigate risks, and have a repeatable / scalable change management process.

Essential Job Functions

- Provide overall leadership to architect and improve project controls system, processes and specifications to enable teams to leverage historical data, leverage predictive analytics, and support data-driven decision making.
- Collaborate with Innovation Engineering, Site Selection/Current Site Development, and Construction teams to provide end-to-end support and feedback loop to tie actuals to future improvements.
- Oversee the production of project schedules throughout project lifecycle to support internal and external development teams to meet or exceed targets.
- Establish useable budgets and manage costs to meet or exceed cost targets.
- Leverage cost databases using Vantage software programs to establish budget accuracy and optimize financial results.
- Utilize cost accounting software dashboards with real‑time telemetry at project, site, region, and national levels.
- Contribute to the month‑end financial forecasting process and ensure risk exposure and gainful opportunities are accurately reported.
- At project start,



develop risk management plans and maintain them throughout the project with mitigation strategies.
- Establish a change management workflow incorporating existing processes and best practices.
- Support Development design and Operations evaluations to assess cost and schedule impacts of proposed changes.
- Utilize data to produce real‑time status, KPIs, and predictive analytics.
- Prepare detailed cost, schedule, risk, and upside reports for project teams and management.
- Contribute to the month‑end financial forecasting process and ensure risk exposure is accurately reported.
- Create and maintain schedule database to set allowable ranges of each activity based real data; leverage cost database to do the same.
- Propagate use of standard breakdown structures (WBS, CBS, etc.) and Schedule of Values (SOV) to ensure consistent data capture and accurate cross-referencing of budgets and actuals.
- Maintain program level schedule updates, prepare site specific schedules, and cost/schedule customer deliverables.
- Leverage leading and lagging indicators to help project teams identify impacts proactively and support development of mitigation plans.
- Develop dashboards with real‑time telemetry at project, site, region and global levels; deliver detailed cost, schedule, risk/upside reports for the project teams and management as needed.




- Ensure risk exposure is accurately extracted from the Risk/Upside Log into other reports.
- Provide project teams with schedule lookahead metrics; run analyses to compare the work in place to the progress billings to report risk to budget or schedule.
- Support time-impact analysis throughout development stage gates.
- Ensure contractors comply with cost/schedule formats and data inputs enabling efficient data management.
- Work with project teams and Construction Cost and Finance (CCF) to improve project estimating process at each development stage including conceptual design, SD, DD, CD.
- Partner with CCF to establish cost standardization, benchmarking, labor analysis/efficiency and forecasting/variance analysis to identify risks as well as opportunities to optimize ongoing and future builds.
- Support project teams in the development of Schedule of Values.
- Review and perform health check analysis on contractor’s baseline and progress schedules.
- Additional duties as assigned by Management.

Job Requirements

- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying or certification as Project Controls Manager or equivalent required, MBA is helpful.
- 8 years of experience in project controls management required 10 to 12 years preferred.
- Global construction experience is required, and data centre experience is strongly preferred, but not required.
- Understanding general project controls technical skills and the integration of all of the components including organisational, planning, accounting, analysis and revision process areas.
- Experience in P6 software and interface with accounting software like Yardi and Anaplan strongly p

📌 Project Controls Director, Apac (Sydney)
🏢 Vantage Data Centers
📍 Sydney