Project Controls Manager

CleanSpark is hiring a Project Controls Manager - Data Centers to establish and maintain owner-side controls for its AI data center portfolio. The role oversees cost, schedule, change, risk, and performance controls, validates contractor and delivery-partner information, and provides leadership with forecasts and early warning of material variances.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain project-controls standards, calendars, coding structures, reporting requirements, and governance practices across the AI data center portfolio
• Oversee project cost controls, including approved budgets, commitments, actual costs, accrual coordination, cash-flow forecasts, contingency, trends, and estimate-at-completion reporting
• Coordinate with Scheduling to align cost and schedule information, validate progress, and maintain consistent status dates, milestones, and forecasting assumptions
• Participate in the commercial review of contractor and vendor pay applications, change orders, and cost-to-complete reporting in partnership with the PMO, Finance, and Commercial Operations
• Maintain change-control and trend-management processes that document scope movement, pricing status, approvals, contingency use, and potential exposure
• Develop and maintain project and portfolio risk and opportunity registers, facilitate risk reviews, and track mitigation actions through closure
• Produce stage-gate, monthly, and executive reporting that explains current performance, forecast movement, key assumptions, emerging risks, and required decisions
• Maintain data quality and controls within the project management information system, including budget, commitment, change, forecast, and reporting workflows and relevant integrations
• Review contractor and consultant controls deliverables for completeness, consistency, and compliance with CleanSpark requirements; resolve gaps and escalate material issues
• Support claims avoidance and dispute analysis by preserving contemporaneous cost and change records and coordinating relevant analysis with Legal and project leadership
• Lead and coordinate internal and external project-controls resources, establish clear deliverables and review expectations, and develop scalable practices as the portfolio grows
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, finance, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Seven or more years of progressive project-controls experience supporting large capital construction programs such as data centers, power, utilities, industrial facilities, or other mission-critical infrastructure
• Strong experience with cost control, forecasting, change management, risk management, progress measurement, and executive project reporting
• Experience participating in the commercial review of contractor pay applications, change orders, and cost-to-complete reporting
• Working knowledge of construction contracts and delivery models, including design-build, guaranteed maximum price, lump-sum, or comparable commercial structures
• Experience using a PMIS and related cost, schedule, and reporting tools, such as Oracle Primavera Cloud, Unifier, Primavera P6, NetSuite, or comparable systems
• Strong analytical and communication skills, including the ability to reconcile conflicting information and present clear conclusions, assumptions, and risks to leadership
• Owner-side project-controls experience supporting a multi-project or multi-site capital portfolio
• Experience with hyperscale data centers, high-performance computing facilities, or other mission-critical construction programs
• Experience building or improving a project-controls function and coordinating blended internal and consultant teams
• AACE certification, such as Certified Cost Professional or Planning and Scheduling Professional, Project Management Professional certification, or an equivalent credential