Director, Project Management Office (PMO) Data Center Services

Company Overview

Circet USA is the leading provider of Network Services in North America, and we're looking for talented professionals to join our team. We specialize in engineering and construction services delivering comprehensive solutions across Inside Plant, Outside Plant, and Wireless networks to meet the evolving infrastructure needs of our customers.

With nearly 50 years of industry experience, we work with major telecom service providers, MSOs, cloud service providers, and utilities. At Circet USA, you'll have the opportunity to make an impact by helping to create customized solutions that address our clients' unique challenges. If you’re passionate about innovation and thrive in a dynamic environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Circet USA’s benefits package includes the following:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Digital Health & Wellness Support
• Critical Illness, Accident, & Hospital Insurance
• Short-term & Long-term disability
• Group term & Voluntary life insurance
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Paid Time Off & 401K
• Company Discount Website

Job Summary and Responsibilities

SUMMARY

Circet USA is a premier technology infrastructure design, build, and maintain partner. The Director, Project Management Office (PMO) will build and lead the Data Center Services PMO and Primavera P6 scheduling department. This hands-on leader establishes the project delivery framework, project controls, scheduling standards, governance, tools, reporting, and talent needed to support rapid growth and consistent execution across the project portfolio.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES include the following; other duties may be assigned:

• 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.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability required.

• 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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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.

COMPETENCIES

• Strategic Leadership and PMO Development
• Primavera P6 and Project Scheduling
• Project Controls and Portfolio Governance
• Financial Acumen and Performance Reporting
• Risk, Change, and Claims Management
• Cross-Functional Collaboration and Influence
• Executive and Customer Communication
• Talent Development and Change Adoption

SUCCESS MEASURES

• Within 30 days: current projects, tools, and reporting gaps assessed; PMO charter and hiring plan approved.
• Within 90 days: P6 environment and standards defined; initial schedulers hired or assigned; monthly portfolio review operating; highest-risk projects on P6 schedules.
• Within 6 months: all new projects launched using standard templates and stage gates; portfolio dashboard live; schedule-quality reviews established.
• Within 12 months: all active projects baselined in P6; PMO and scheduling teams staffed to plan; labor forecasts informing capacity decisions; function prepared to support continued growth.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

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.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

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.

REASONING ABILITY

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.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle objects, tools, or controls; talk; and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities include close vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This role combines office or remote work with regular travel to active project sites and customer locations. Site visits may require personal protective equipment and compliance with site safety, security, and access requirements. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

TRAVEL

Anticipated travel is up to 30% based on business need, including project-site visits and customer-facing engagements.

Circet USA is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer of females, minorities, veterans and disabled.

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