Project Director, SCADA Facility Controls (AMER)

Role description

Role Overview

As Project Director, SCADA Facility Controls (AMER), you'll lead delivery of Nscale's Americas controls and network portfolio across data center development, construction, commissioning, and early operations. Reporting to the VP, Controls & Networks, you'll lead the AMER project management team and own regional delivery outcomes, balancing portfolio leadership with hands-on delivery of our most critical projects.

What You Will Do

You will: Set clear priorities and develop a strong, resilient bench of Project Managers. Personally lead critical projects when it matters most. Move projects from design through handover with disciplined control of scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, and stakeholder commitments.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Experience required: 12+ years of progressive project, program, construction, engineering, or operations delivery experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, or similarly complex technical environments.

Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive project, program, construction, engineering, or operations delivery experience in data centers, mission-critical facilities, or similarly complex technical environments
• Portfolio and people leadership: Demonstrated experience leading multi-project portfolios and managing Project Managers or delivery teams, with accountability for schedule, budget, risk, quality, and stakeholder outcomes
• Construction and commissioning coordination: Strong experience coordinating construction, commissioning, technical vendors, system integrators, and cross-functional engineering and operations stakeholders
• Data center systems knowledge: Working understanding of data center infrastructure delivery and the controls and network systems that support it, such as BMS, EPMS, SCADA, OT networks, telemetry, critical power, and cooling
• Project governance: Proven capability with integrated schedules, cost and change control, RAID management, executive reporting, commercial awareness, and structured issue escalation
• Judgment and communication: Able to make sound prioritization decisions in fast-moving delivery environments and communicate clearly with both field teams and senior executives
• Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• Travel: Able to travel regularly to AMER project sites and attend critical construction, commissioning, and stakeholder meetings as required