Director, Project Management Office (PMO) Data Center Services

Circet USA is hiring a Director, Project Management Office (PMO) to build and lead its Data Center Services PMO and Primavera P6 scheduling department. The role establishes project delivery frameworks, controls, scheduling standards, governance, reporting, and teams to support consistent execution across the project portfolio.

Responsibilities:

• Define the PMO charter, operating model, roles, decision rights, governance cadence, and project delivery framework from preconstruction handoff through closeout and customer turnover
• Establish common standards and templates for project kickoffs, stage gates, risk and issue logs, change management, lessons learned, closeout, and customer reporting
• Select and implement the PMO tools and reporting stack in partnership with IT, Finance, Operations, Sales, and Estimating
• Build and lead the Primavera P6 scheduling department, including its mission, organization, staffing plan, hiring, training, career paths, and operating standards
• Serve as the business unit authority for P6 enterprise structure, coding, calendars, permissions, templates, baselines, resource loading, and update protocols
• Develop repeatable schedule templates for data center scopes, including structured cabling, phased data hall turnover, and commissioning support
• Require sound critical path method schedules and lead schedule-quality reviews using recognized criteria such as the DCMA 14-point assessment
• Oversee look-ahead schedules, recovery plans, delay analyses, and time impact analyses supporting change orders and claims
• Align Circet schedules with owner, customer, and general contractor master schedules and reporting requirements
• Provide leadership with an integrated view of portfolio health across schedule, cost, margin, safety, quality, staffing, change, and risk
• Partner with Finance on forecasting, estimates at completion, change-order tracking, work-in-progress reviews, and margin performance
• Lead monthly portfolio reviews, identify at-risk projects early, and present data-supported recovery recommendations to the SVP
• Define and maintain key performance indicators for project delivery, PMO effectiveness, schedule quality, and portfolio performance
• Forecast labor and resource demand across backlog and pipeline, identify capacity constraints, and connect training capacity to project demand
• Support Sales and Estimating with schedule development, delivery plans, and customer-facing project-controls content
• Recruit, coach, and develop PMO and scheduling professionals; train project managers, superintendents, and field leaders on standards and tools
• Build a culture of accurate reporting, early escalation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Provide oversight and coaching to Project Managers for change management and change order execution on their assigned project/s
• Provide oversight and coaching to Project Managers as applies to project budget management, job cost control, and earned value management on their assigned project/s

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, business, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be substituted
• 10+ years of project delivery, project controls, or scheduling experience in data center, mission-critical, telecommunications, or complex infrastructure construction
• 5+ years leading a PMO, project controls group, scheduling team, or leading large-scale delivery
• Demonstrated success building or substantially rebuilding a PMO or scheduling function in a rapid-growth environment
• Advanced working knowledge of Primavera P6, critical path method scheduling, schedule logic, baselines, resource loading, and schedule-quality review
• Experience with recovery schedules, delay analysis, time impact analysis, and change orders tied to schedule impacts
• Working knowledge of contractor financials, including forecasting, estimates at completion, margin, and work in progress
• Experience reporting to executives and working directly with owners, customers, and general contractors
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret complex business, construction, contractual, and technical documents; ability to respond effectively to sensitive inquiries and communicate clearly with executives, customers, general contractors, and field teams
• Ability to calculate and interpret percentages, rates, variances, productivity, forecast-to-complete values, margins, schedule performance, earned-value indicators, and other project and financial measures; ability to apply basic algebra and quantitative reasoning
• Ability to define problems, collect and validate data, establish facts, evaluate alternatives, identify cause and effect, and draw sound conclusions in situations involving multiple variables, competing priorities, and incomplete information
• Direct experience supporting hyperscale or colocation data center delivery
• Familiarity with structured cabling, methods of procedure (MOPs), commissioning levels, TIA-942, and BICSI standards
• PMP, PMI-SP, AACE PSP, or AACE CCP certification
• Experience with Power BI or a similar reporting platform and construction management software such as Procore
• Experience in a private equity-backed or similarly high-growth services business
• Experience with field-services workforces and labor-capacity planning