Sr. Manager, Program Controls

THE COMPANY: STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience. STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK. THE POSITION: STACK is seeking an experienced Sr. Manager, Project Controls to develop the Delivery Project Management Office (PMO) Controls objective. The Sr. Manager, Project Control provides leadership and oversight of Project-level controls, ensuring consistent, accurate, and timely management of cost, schedule, and performance data across construction Projects. This role partners with Preconstruction, Construction leadership, project teams and Construction Finance to establish, maintain, and govern Project controls that support informed decision-making and successful project execution. Key responsibilities include developing and managing Project budgets, schedules, and forecasting processes, establishing cost and schedule control standards, and overseeing Project-level reporting, variance analysis, and performance metrics. The Sr. Manager, Project Control works closely with the Cost Manager to integrate cost data, support funding and governance reviews, and ensure alignment between budgets, forecasts, and approved baselines. The role also includes oversight of schedule management, change management, risk and contingency tracking, and EML reporting, as well as administration and continuous improvement of Project controls systems and processes. The Sr. Manager, Project Control plays a critical role in maintaining data integrity, identifying trends and risks, and ensuring that Project execution adheres to established controls, governance requirements, and reporting standards. This role will support STACK’s full construction portfolio encompassing multiple product and delivery types. This role will continually assess project and portfolio delivery performance to define, implement, adopt, and audit controls (cost, schedule, & quality) and reporting that enable extreme visibility into project performance while enhancing certainty in delivery outcome. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Lead, develop, train, and manage a project controls team of cost managers and schedulers (both internally and through partnership with our external service providers). Create and deliver presentations to internal and external stakeholders, effectively communicating project delivery status and risk mitigation strategies. Conduct regular project reviews and analysis, identifying critical path activities, potential delays, cost…