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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.\nSummary of Role:\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nEssential Responsibilities:\nA. Integrated Project Controls & Governance\nEstablish and lead the overall project controls framework, standards, procedures, reporting systems, and governance requirements for major semiconductor construction projects.\nDevelop and maintain an integrated master schedule encompassing engineering, procurement, construction, cleanroom delivery, facilities systems, AMHS, tool installation, commissioning, qualification, and operational readiness.\nEnsure alignment between the project schedule, cost plan, procurement strategy, construction sequencing, resource requirements, and business milestones.\nEstablish clear performance measurement criteria, reporting requirements, and accountability across the Owner’s Team, EPC/EPCM partners, general contractors, and subcontractors.\nImplement consistent project controls standards aligned with the global construction organization, enabling benchmarking and lessons learned across multiple sites and projects.\nMaintain the integrity, accuracy, and traceability of project controls data and ensure that project decisions are based on validated information.\nB. Schedule Management & Critical Path\nLead the development, validation, and management of the integrated master schedule, including baseline approval, periodic updates, and schedule recovery strategies.\nIndependently assess contractor schedules, logic, durations, productivity assumptions, resource loading, constraints, and critical path integrity.\nIdentify critical and near-critical activities, schedule interfaces, long-lead equipment, permitting requirements, and potential threats to key milestones.\nIntegrate engineering deliverables, procurement commitments, construction work packages, system turnover, tool delivery, installation, and commissioning into a coordinated execution plan.\nEstablish measurable progress rules and objectively validate actual progress against planned performance.\nLead schedule risk assessments, delay analysis, time-impact assessments, and mitigation planning.\nDevelop and challenge recovery schedules, acceleration plans, and resource strategies when performance falls behind baseline.\nProvide early warning of milestone risks and present clear, actionable recommendations to the Project Director.\nC. Cost Management & Forecasting\nEstablish and maintain the overall project cost baseline, control budget, commitments, actual expenditures, accruals, contingency, and forecast-at-completion.\nLead cost forecasting and cash-flow projections across engineering, procurement, construction, equipment installation, commissioning, and start-up.\nMonitor total installed cost (TIC), capital expenditure (CAPEX), cost trends, cost variances, and exposure to potential overruns.\nValidate contractor payment applications, progress claims, change orders, and cost submissions against contractual requirements and verified progress.\nChallenge contractor cost forecasts, productivity assumptions, resource levels, indirect costs, and commercial exposure.\nMaintain visibility of committed and uncommitted costs, contingency utilization, management reserves where applicable, and remaining cost to complete.\nIdentify cost-saving opportunities and evaluate the financial impact of proposed scope changes, schedule recovery, and acceleration measures.\nEnsure timely and accurate financial reporting to project leadership and corporate stakeholders.\nD. Progress Measurement & Performance Management\nEstablish a consistent, objective, and auditable progress measurement system across all project phases and contracting partners.\nIntegrate engineering deliverables, procurement status, fabrication, material delivery, construction quantities, system completion, and commissioning progress into a consolidated performance dashboard.\nCompare planned versus actual progress and evaluate schedule performance, productivity, resource utilization, and milestone achievement.\nImplement earned value management (EVM), where appropriate, including schedule performance index (SPI), cost performance index (CPI), and estimate-at-completion analysis.\nVerify physical progress through field validation, quantity tracking, installed work measurements, and coordination with construction management.\nIdentify discrepancies between reported progress and actual field conditions, ensuring that performance reporting reflects verifiable accomplishments rather than contractor-reported percentages alone.\nEstablish clear accountability for corrective actions and track their effectiveness until closure.\nE. Risk, Change & Opportunity Management\nLead the integrated project risk and opportunity management process, including identification, assessment, quantification, mitigation, and escalation.\nMaintain a consolidated risk register covering schedule, cost, engineering, procurement, construction, EHSS, interfaces, commissioning, and operational readiness.\nConduct quantitative schedule and cost risk assessments where appropriate, including probabilistic forecasting and contingency analysis.\nEstablish a disciplined change control process to evaluate proposed changes to scope, cost, schedule, design, execution strategy, and contractual obligations.\nAssess the cumulative impact of changes and prevent unapproved scope growth, uncontrolled commitments, and erosion of contingency.\nIdentify emerging trends and early-warning indicators before they become material project issues.\nProvide decision-ready recommendations on risk mitigation, contingency allocation, schedule protection, and cost optimization.\nF. Procurement, Contracts & Commercial Controls\nIntegrate procurement schedules, long-lead equipment, purchase orders, vendor deliverables, manufacturing progress, logistics, and site delivery into the master project controls system.\nMonitor procurement performance against required-on-site dates and identify potential impacts on construction sequencing, tool installation, and project milestones.\nEstablish cost and schedule visibility across EPC, EPCM, construction management, direct contracts, and owner-direct procurement packages.\nSupport tendering, bid evaluation, commercial comparisons, and contractor selection through independent cost and schedule assessments.\nMonitor contractual milestones, notices, variations, claims, extensions of time, and potential entitlement exposure in coordination with contracts and commercial management.\nMaintain traceability between approved scope, contract commitments, changes, payments, and final forecasts.\nProvide independent assessments of contractor performance and commercial submissions to protect the Owner’s interests.\nG. EHSS, Quality & Construction Performance Integration\nIntegrate EHSS, quality, construction productivity, and execution readiness indicators into project performance reporting.\nTrack leading EHSS indicators, corrective actions, audit findings, and major risk mitigation activities alongside schedule and cost performance.\nEnsure that schedule recovery and acceleration plans are assessed for EHSS, quality, and operational risks before implementation.\nMonitor quality trends, rework, inspection and test status, nonconformances, and their impact on cost, schedule, and turnover milestones.\nIncorporate system completion, punch-list closure, commissioning readiness, and handover status into integrated performance reporting.\nReinforce the principle that schedule and cost objectives must never compromise safety, quality, or long-term facility reliability.\nH. Reporting, Analytics & Executive Decision Support\nDevelop concise, accurate, and forward-looking executive dashboards for the Project Director, Global Construction Leadership, executive management, and other stakeholders.\nProvide integrated reporting covering scope, schedule, cost, forecast, risk, change, procurement, construction progress, EHSS, quality, and commissioning.\nLead weekly project controls reviews, monthly performance reviews, milestone reviews, and executive reporting cycles.\nClearly communicate variances, root causes, forecast impacts, recovery actions, accountable owners, and required management decisions.\nEstablish consistent reporting definitions and data quality requirements across contractors, functional teams, and project locations.\nUse appropriate digital project controls tools, data analytics, and visualization platforms to improve transparency, forecasting, and decision-making.\nEnsure that reporting emphasizes predictive indicators and emerging issues rather than merely documenting historical performance.\nI. Leadership & Stakeholder Management\nLead and develop the project controls team, including planning and scheduling, cost control, risk, change control, progress measurement, and reporting personnel.\nEstablish clear roles, responsibilities, performance expectations, and professional development objectives.\nChallenge contractor and consultant submissions constructively while maintaining strong working relationships.\nWork closely with engineering, procurement, construction, EHSS, quality, commissioning, finance, contracts, and operations teams to resolve cross-functional issues.\nPromote a culture of accountability, transparency, disciplined execution, early escalation, and continuous improvement.\nSupport the development and deployment of global project controls standards, benchmarks, tools, and best practices across the organization.\nOther Responsibilities:\nPerform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements 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