Hiring: Senior Director, Project Controls Company: 5C Location: Springfield, OH Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 13:22:00 Employment Type: Contract / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Risk Management About the job Experience: •15+ years of progressive experience in project controls, scheduling, construction management, program controls, or related delivery roles in data centers, mission-critical, industrial, power, or large capital projects. Required Skills: •Build the Project Controls Function from the Ground Up •Create the Project Controls charter, service model, RACI, governance cadence, role definitions, staffing roadmap, consultant support model, standards, templates, and implementation plan for a lean organization. •Establish practical processes for schedule development, baseline approval, update cycles, variance analysis, progress measurement, change impact review, recovery planning, and executive reporting. •Operate hands-on during the early build-out by developing schedules, reviewing contractor updates, building dashboards, producing reports, and coaching project teams until resources and processes mature. •Portfolio and Mega-Campus Schedule Leadership •Define and manage the company schedule architecture across L1 executive milestones, L2 campus roadmaps, L3 project baselines, L4 contractor schedules, and L5 detailed work plans. •Ensure schedules integrate land, permits, power delivery, utility interconnection, design, procurement, long-lead equipment, sitework, building construction, commissioning, controls, customer witness testing, turnover, and operations readiness. •Review schedule quality, logic, critical path, float, constraints, calendars, sequencing, interfaces, and recovery assumptions to ensure schedules are credible decision-making tools rather than reporting artifacts. Qualifications: •5C Data Centers is a rapidly scaling data center developer building national execution capability across large, complex, power-driven campuses. We support hyperscale, AI/high-density, powered land, and multi-building data center programs from site development and power planning through construction delivery, commissioning, and customer turnover. •How We Work At 5C •Our core values guide how we collaborate, make decisions, support one another, and serve our customers. We're looking for people who embrace them and help us build something great. •Demonstrated experience building or materially improving project controls processes, teams, reporting standards, and governance models in complex project environments. •Strong technical knowledge of CPM scheduling, baseline development, critical path and float analysis, resource/cost loading, recovery planning, and change/time impact evaluation. •Demonstrated capacity to create order in ambiguous, early-stage, rapidly scaling environments with limited existing process and high expectations for execution speed. •Solid functional working knowledge of cost control, cash flow, forecasting, earned value, contingency, procurement, risk management, and construction execution. •Strong stakeholder leadership skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and executives without relying solely on direct authority. •At 5C, we believe great people build great companies. You'll build a rewarding career while helping shape the future of digital infrastructure - one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!