Project Controls Manager – Portfolio Planning

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Manager

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Edged

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51 - 200 employees

🤝 B2B

⚡ Energy

B2B • Energy

Edged is a data center operator that develops and operates ultra‑efficient, high‑density colocation and build‑to‑suit facilities optimized for hyperscale, enterprise, and AI workloads. The company markets a gigawatt‑scale network across North America (with expansion activity in Europe), offering multi‑tenant colocation, single‑tenant turnkey builds, and powered‑shell options with carrier‑neutral connectivity. Edged emphasizes sustainability — low portfolio PUE (around 1. 15), liquid and air cooling options, closed‑loop waterless cooling, and large water and energy savings — and targets customers needing high rack densities and next‑generation GPU/inference infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain project development schedules from site acquisition through construction commencement. • Establish, monitor, and drive accountability for development, entitlement, permitting, utility, financing, procurement, and contractual milestones. • Facilitate milestone reviews with stakeholders and escalate risks threatening scheduled commitments. • Coordinate with Development, Legal, Finance, Real Estate, Design, Procurement, Utility, and Construction teams. • Identify schedule risks, missed commitments, approval delays, and unresolved action items; drive resolution and escalate issues requiring leadership intervention. • Develop, maintain, and oversee integrated portfolio schedules consolidating project schedules into an enterprise planning framework. • Monitor portfolio milestones, energization targets, commissioning activities, lease obligations, customer commitments, and operational readiness milestones. • Establish and enforce enterprise scheduling standards, procedures, coding structures, schedule specifications, update requirements, and reporting protocols. • Conduct schedule quality reviews and governance audits. • Support executive leadership through long-range portfolio planning, scenario analysis, schedule forecasting, capacity planning, and strategic milestone management. • Review contractor, consultant, and internal schedules for logic integrity, sequencing, critical path validity, float management, resource loading, and milestone compliance. • Perform schedule health assessments, delay analyses, what-if scenarios, recovery planning evaluations, and predictive schedule forecasting. • Evaluate impacts of procurement delays, utility constraints, permitting requirements, design development, change orders, and commissioning activities. • Monitor schedule performance across the portfolio, identify trends and recurring risks, and recommend improvements. • Prepare portfolio schedule reports, milestone dashboards, executive presentations, and schedule performance metrics. • Develop and maintain schedule performance indicators, forecasting tools, milestone tracking systems, and portfolio-level schedule analytics. • Present schedule forecasts, milestone status, portfolio risks, and mitigation plans to executive leadership, project teams, and stakeholders. • Report to the Portfolio Controls Director.

🎯 Requirements

• Between 10–15 years of planning, scheduling, or project controls experience supporting large-scale capital construction programs, including hyperscale, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure, or energy projects. • Demonstrated experience administering Primavera P6 in an enterprise environment supporting multiple concurrent projects. • Extensive experience developing and managing integrated master schedules, portfolio-level planning systems, and development schedules from site acquisition through construction commencement. • Advanced understanding of Critical Path Methodology (CPM), float analysis, schedule forecasting, schedule recovery planning, and risk analysis. • Experience reviewing engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness schedules. • Strong understanding of project controls principles including cost forecasting, risk management, change management, and performance reporting. • Data center or mission-critical infrastructure experience strongly preferred. • Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business, or related field. • PSP, PMI-SP, PMP, CCM, or equivalent certification preferred. • Expert-level proficiency with Primavera P6 and enterprise schedule administration. • Strong analytical capabilities with experience interpreting and communicating complex schedule information. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present schedule information to executive-level audiences. • Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines simultaneously in a fast-paced environment. • Strong understanding of project lifecycle planning from site acquisition through commissioning and operational readiness. • Proven ability to influence project teams and drive adherence to portfolio standards and governance requirements.

🏖️ Benefits

• A fast-paced, entrepreneurial culture focused on innovation. • A flexible, autonomous work environment. • A culture of respect, learning, and excellence. • Experienced, highly talented experts as team peers. • Growth and travel opportunities. • A team of change-makers having a significant impact on people and the planet.