Project Controls Lead
Role Overview
The Data Center Project Controls lead is the central owner of the project master schedule and the delivery roadmap across FluidStack’s datacenter portfolio. This role ensures consistent, predictable execution across multiple concurrent builds of GW scale datacenter builds, by integrating design, procurement, permitting, and construction schedules into a unified enterprise-level program plan.
The project controls lead provides schedule intelligence, identifies bottlenecks, forecasts critical path risks, and supports executive decision-making for resource allocation, phasing, and capital deployment.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Fluidstack
At Fluidstack, we build the compute, data centers, and power that will fuel artificial superintelligence. We supply GWs of compute capabilities to the world’s biggest AI Labs at industry-defining speeds.
Our team is small, fast, and obsessed with quality. We own outcomes end-to-end, challenge assumptions, and treat our customers' problems as our own. No task is beneath anyone here.
There are a few thousand people who will shape the trajectory of superintelligence. Come and be one of them.
About Fluidstack
At Fluidstack, we’re building the infrastructure for abundant intelligence. We partner with top AI labs, governments, and enterprises - including Mistral, Poolside, Black Forest Labs, Meta, and more - to unlock compute at the speed of light.
We’re working with urgency to make AGI a reality. As such, our team is highly motivated and committed to delivering world-class infrastructure. We treat our customers’ outcomes as our own, taking pride in the systems we build and the trust we earn. If you’re motivated by purpose, obsessed with excellence, and ready to work very hard to accelerate the future of intelligence, join us in building what's next.
About the role
The Data Center Project Controls lead is the central owner of the project master schedule and the delivery roadmap across FluidStack’s datacenter portfolio. This role ensures consistent, predictable execution across multiple concurrent builds of GW scale datacenter builds, by integrating design, procurement, permitting, and construction schedules into a unified enterprise-level program plan.
The project controls lead provides schedule intelligence, identifies bottlenecks, forecasts critical path risks, and supports executive decision-making for resource allocation, phasing, and capital deployment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead regional project controls and scheduling teams; set goals and ensure progress.
- Oversee schedules (pre-construction, baseline, updates) and project controls processes. Manage change orders, claims, delay/productivity analyses, and dispute resolution support.
- Ensure compliance with companywide practices for budgets, scheduling, and reporting.
- Partner with Operations, Legal, and Finance on risks, claims, and recovery strategies.
- Support client interviews, Go/No-Go decisions, and bid strategies.
- Develop dashboards, KPIs, and training programs; mentor project controls staff.
- Collaborate with Estimating, VDC, Safety, and Quality for project integration. Participate in councils and committees to improve processes, policies, and tools.
- Conduct contract reviews to identify risk, timelines, and notification protocols.
About You
Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or equivalent experience.
10+ years in construction, including 7+ in project controls/scheduling.
7+ years handling scheduling and productivity claims.
Strong leadership and experience implementing companywide procedures.
Proficiency in CPM scheduling, contracts, risk processes, and self-perform productivity.
Skilled in financial/cost systems, forecasting, and risk evaluation.
Expert in P6, Microsoft Suite, and Bluebeam; knowledge of VDC tools.
Ability to travel within the region.
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
- Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.
- The base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $300,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This range represents our good faith estimate of the compensation for this role at the time of posting. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.
- We are committed to pay equity and transparency.
- Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
- You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email [email protected] with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.
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