Director, Construction Project Control

About GlobalFoundries:

GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world’s most inspired technology companies. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit www.gf.com.

Summary of Role:

The Director, Project Control is responsible for establishing, leading, and maintaining the integrated project controls function for major semiconductor fab construction and expansion projects. The role provides the Owner’s Team with full visibility, control, and governance over project schedule, cost, forecasting, progress, risk, change management, and performance reporting across engineering, procurement, construction, equipment installation, commissioning, and start-up.

The position serves as a key strategic partner to the Project Director and the broader Global Construction Leadership Team, ensuring that project decisions are driven by accurate, timely, and forward-looking information.

The Senior Project Control Manager shall proactively identify deviations, anticipate project risks, challenge contractor performance, and drive corrective actions to protect the project’s approved budget, schedule, scope, quality, and operational readiness.

Essential Responsibilities:

A. Integrated Project Controls & Governance

- Establish and lead the overall project controls framework, standards, procedures, reporting systems, and governance requirements for major semiconductor construction projects.
- Develop and maintain an integrated master schedule encompassing engineering, procurement, construction, cleanroom delivery, facilities systems, AMHS, tool installation, commissioning, qualification, and operational readiness.
- Ensure alignment between the project schedule, cost plan, procurement strategy, construction sequencing, resource requirements, and business milestones.
- Establish clear performance measurement criteria, reporting requirements, and accountability across the Owner’s Team, EPC/EPCM partners, general contractors, and subcontractors.
- Implement consistent project controls standards aligned with the global construction organization, enabling benchmarking and lessons learned across multiple sites and projects.
- Maintain the integrity, accuracy, and traceability of project controls data and ensure that project decisions are based on validated information.

B. Schedule Management & Critical Path

- Lead the development, validation, and management of the integrated master schedule, including baseline approval, periodic updates, and schedule recovery strategies.
- Independently assess contractor schedules, logic, durations, productivity assumptions, resource loading, constraints, and critical path integrity.
- Identify critical and near-critical activities, schedule interfaces, long-lead equipment, permitting requirements, and potential threats to key milestones.
- Integrate engineering deliverables, procurement commitments, construction work packages, system turnover, tool delivery, installation, and commissioning into a coordinated execution plan.
- Establish measurable progress rules and objectively validate actual progress against planned performance.
- Lead schedule risk assessments, delay analysis, time-impact assessments, and mitigation planning.
- Develop and challenge recovery schedules, acceleration plans, and resource strategies when performance falls behind baseline.
- Provide early warning of milestone risks and present clear, actionable recommendations to the Project Director.

C. Cost Management & Forecasting

- Establish and maintain the overall project cost baseline, control budget, commitments, actual expenditures, accruals, contingency, and forecast-at-completion.
- Lead cost forecasting and cash-flow projections across engineering, procurement, construction, equipment installation, commissioning, and start-up.
- Monitor total installed cost (TIC), capital expenditure (CAPEX), cost trends, cost variances, and exposure to potential overruns.
- Validate contractor payment applications, progress claims, change orders, and cost submissions against contractual requirements and verified progress.
- Challenge contractor cost forecasts, productivity assumptions, resource levels, indirect costs, and commercial exposure.
- Maintain visibility of committed and uncommitted costs, contingency utilization, management reserves where applicable, and remaining cost to complete.
- Identify cost-saving opportunities and evaluate the financial impact of proposed scope changes, schedule recovery, and acceleration measures.
- Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting to project leadership and corporate stakeholders.

D. Progress Measurement & Performance Management

- Establish a consistent, objective, and auditable progress measurement system across all project phases and contracting partners.
- Integrate engineering deliverables, procurement status, fabrication, material delivery, construction quantities, system completion, and commissioning progress into a consolidated performance dashboard.
- Compare planned versus actual progress and evaluate schedule performance, productivity, resource utilization, and milestone achievement.
- Implement earned value management (EVM), where appropriate, including schedule performance index (SPI), cost performance index (CPI), and estimate-at-completion analysis.
- Verify physical progress through field validation, quantity tracking, installed work measurements, and coordination with construction management.
- Identify discrepancies between reported progress and actual field conditions, ensuring that performance reporting reflects verifiable accomplishments rather than contractor-reported percentages alone.
- Establish clear accountability for corrective actions and track their effectiveness until closure.

E. Risk, Change & Opportunity Management

- Lead the integrated project risk and opportunity management process, including identification, assessment, quantification, mitigation, and escalation.
- Maintain a consolidated risk register covering schedule, cost, engineering, procurement, construction, EHSS, interfaces, commissioning, and operational readiness.
- Conduct quantitative schedule and cost risk assessments where appropriate, including probabilistic forecasting and contingency analysis.
- Establish a disciplined change control process to evaluate proposed changes to scope, cost, schedule, design, execution strategy, and contractual obligations.
- Assess the cumulative impact of changes and prevent unapproved scope growth, uncontrolled commitments, and erosion of contingency.
- Identify emerging trends and early-warning indicators before they become material project issues.
- Provide decision-ready recommendations on risk mitigation, contingency allocation, schedule protection, and cost optimization.

F. Procurement, Contracts & Commercial Controls

- Integrate procurement schedules, long-lead equipment, purchase orders, vendor deliverables, manufacturing progress, logistics, and site delivery into the master project controls system.
- Monitor procurement performance against required-on-site dates and identify potential impacts on construction sequencing, tool installation, and project milestones.
- Establish cost and schedule visibility across EPC, EPCM, construction management, direct contracts, and owner-direct procurement packages.
- Support tendering, bid evaluation, commercial comparisons, and contractor selection through independent cost and schedule assessments.
- Monitor contractual milestones, notices, variations, claims, extensions of time, and potential entitlement exposure in coordination with contracts and commercial management.
- Maintain traceability between approved scope, contract commitments, changes, payments, and final forecasts.
- Provide independent assessments of contractor performance and commercial submissions to protect the Owner’s interests.

G. EHSS, Quality & Construction Performance Integration

- Integrate EHSS, quality, construction productivity, and execution readiness indicators into project performance reporting.
- Track leading EHSS indicators, corrective actions, audit findings, and major risk mitigation activities alongside schedule and cost performance.
- Ensure that schedule recovery and acceleration plans are assessed for EHSS, quality, and operational risks before implementation.
- Monitor quality trends, rework, inspection and test status, nonconformances, and their impact on cost, schedule, and turnover milestones.
- Incorporate system completion, punch-list closure, commissioning readiness, and handover status into integrated performance reporting.
- Reinforce the principle that schedule and cost objectives must never compromise safety, quality, or long-term facility reliability.

H. Reporting, Analytics & Executive Decision Support

- Develop concise, accurate, and forward-looking executive dashboards for the Project Director, Global Construction Leadership, executive management, and other stakeholders.
- Provide integrated reporting covering scope, schedule, cost, forecast, risk, change, procurement, construction progress, EHSS, quality, and commissioning.
- Lead weekly project controls reviews, monthly performance reviews, milestone reviews, and executive reporting cycles.
- Clearly communicate variances, root causes, forecast impacts, recovery actions, accountable owners, and required management decisions.
- Establish consistent reporting definitions and data quality requirements across contractors, functional teams, and project locations.
- Use appropriate digital project controls tools, data analytics, and visualization platforms to improve transparency, forecasting, and decision-making.
- Ensure that reporting emphasizes predictive indicators and emerging issues rather than merely documenting historical performance.

I. Leadership & Stakeholder Management

- Lead and develop the project controls team, including planning and scheduling, cost control, risk, change control, progress measurement, and reporting personnel.
- Establish clear roles, responsibilities, performance expectations, and professional development objectives.
- Challenge contractor and consultant submissions constructively while maintaining strong working relationships.
- Work closely with engineering, procurement, construction, EHSS, quality, commissioning, finance, contracts, and operations teams to resolve cross-functional issues.
- Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, disciplined execution, early escalation, and continuous improvement.
- Support the development and deployment of global project controls standards, benchmarks, tools, and best practices across the organization.

Other Responsibilities:

- Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline.
- Typically 1 2 + years of experience in project controls, planning, cost management, and project execution, with significant experience on large-scale capital projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading project controls for major industrial, advanced manufacturing, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, data center, or similarly complex facilities.
- Proven experience managing large CAPEX programs, preferably involving EPC/EPCM contractors, multiple construction packages, and complex interfaces.
- Strong expertise in integrated master scheduling, critical path analysis, cost forecasting, earned value management, risk analysis, and change control.
- Experience with complex construction sequencing, long-lead procurement, system turnover, commissioning, and operational readiness.
- Demonstrated ability to independently challenge contractor schedules, cost forecasts, productivity assumptions, progress claims, and recovery plans.
- Experience developing and presenting executive-level project performance reports.
- Experience managing and developing multidisciplinary project controls teams across multiple contractors or locations.
- Semiconductor fab construction or other highly technical, mission-critical facility experience is strongly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Project management skills - i.e., the ability to innovate and execute on solutions that matter; the ability to navigate ambiguity.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong planning & organizational skills.

Expected Salary Range
$152,000.00 - $266,000.00

The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.

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