Principal Project Controls Lead

Overview

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Data Center Delivery Organization is searching for a Principal Project Controls Lead to support the delivery of OCI’s Abilene AI Data Center. This role manages project controls across schedule, cost, risk, procurement readiness, logistics visibility, and delivery performance. The Principal Project Controls Lead will partner with delivery teams, construction partners, suppliers, logistics providers, manufacturing partners, and leadership to improve project predictability, identify critical‑path risks, and provide clear, actionable reporting.

The role is based in Abilene, Texas. Oracle offers relocation packages to eligible candidates and may consider remote flexibility for candidates located in the DFW area.

• Lead integrated project controls for assigned OCI data center delivery scopes, including schedule tracking, milestone reporting, forecasting, cost visibility, risk tracking, and leadership updates.
• Develop 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.
• Serve as primary point of contact 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.
• Coordinate long‑lead procurement, supplier readiness, material availability, manufacturing progress, and logistics plans against project execution needs.
• Lead support for prefab, modular delivery, manufacturing coordination, and industrialized delivery by aligning manufacturing status with site readiness and installation requirements.
• Own 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.
• Lead 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, trade‑offs, and required decisions.

• 8+ years of experience in leading 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 executive‑level communication skills with the ability to present…