Senior Program Manager, Manufacturing
Austin, TX, Phoenix, AZ$203k - $244k + equityFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior Program Manager responsible for master scheduling, cost controls, reporting, and risk management across gigawatt-scale data center builds, coordinating across construction, procurement, design, and commissioning to ensure aligned schedules, budgets, and interdependencies.
Responsibilities
- Run the master schedule and cost controls across a portfolio of concurrent gigawatt-scale data center builds, keeping every site's plan tied to the forward pipeline.
- Build the reporting rhythm that gives delivery leads and executives a single source of truth on schedule, budget, and risk across all active programs.
- Drive the integrated risk register from identification to mitigation, surfacing schedule and cost exposure weeks before it lands on the critical path.
- Stand up the program controls tooling and standards that let a new site plug into the same schedule, cost, and reporting model on day one.
- Coordinate across construction, procurement, design, and commissioning to keep interdependencies visible and handoffs clean.
Qualifications
- The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would fit.
- You've owned program controls, schedule, cost, and risk, across a portfolio of large capital projects running at the same time.
- You've built a reporting cadence that executives actually trust to make decisions, not a deck no one reads.
- You catch schedule slips and cost overruns weeks before they surface, because your integrated schedule and risk register are live, not stale.
- You've stood up program controls standards or tooling from scratch and gotten multiple teams to actually use them.
- You coordinate across construction, procurement, and design without losing track of the interdependencies that break schedules.
- You write clearly enough to turn a tangled program status into a decision and a next step for a delivery lead or a CEO.
- Bonus: Data center, mission-critical, or large industrial construction. Primavera P6 or equivalent scheduling at portfolio scale. Earned value management. Modular or repeatable build programs.
Skills
Required:Program controlsSchedulingCost managementRisk managementReporting
Last updated Oct 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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