Oracle Corporation

Project Controls Program Lead

Oracle Corporation$90K — $209K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in project controls, program controls, or cost management.
  • Preferred experience in complex infrastructure development (data centers, cloud, etc.).
  • Understanding of cost tracking, risk management, and portfolio reporting.
  • Experience with cost planning, contractor pricing review, and change order management.
  • Proficient in maintaining dashboards, reports, and data quality controls.
  • Ability to navigate matrixed organizations and coordinate with diverse teams.
  • Strong communication skills for technical and commercial topics.

Responsibilities

  • Support project intake activities and validation from early signals to execution.
  • Assist in tracking milestones, documenting requirements, and handoff information.
  • Maintain records and trackers to enhance project visibility and controls.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure completeness of project data.
  • Validate and structure project information for leadership review.
  • Engage in cost management activities throughout the construction lifecycle.
  • Prepare detailed reports and presentations for senior leadership.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Short and long-term disability insurance.
  • Life insurance options available.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Flexible vacation and sick leave policies.
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan and financial planning services.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Project Controls Program Lead will support Project Intake, cost management, reporting, data quality, and cross-functional coordination activities across the pre-execution and execution lifecycle. This role helps capture, organize, validate, and report project information, including early demand signals, letters of intent, project intake data, planning inputs, commercial status, cost assumptions, schedule milestones, risks, dependencies, stakeholder decisions, and readiness indicators.

This is a hands-on IC4 role for a self-motivated project controls professional who can work independently while partnering closely with senior leads, functional teams, and stakeholders. The successful candidate will be comfortable creating structure, maintaining trackers, supporting recurring reporting, documenting processes, and helping improve consistency across a fast-moving global infrastructure portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

Project Controls & Project Intake Support
  • Support Global Program Controls activities related to Project Intake and pre-execution controls, from early demand signal through LOI, planning readiness, and transition to execution.
  • Assist with project intake validation, milestone tracking, readiness reviews, documentation requirements, and handoff information needed by Delivery, Construction, Finance, and other partner teams.
  • Maintain trackers, templates, data fields, meeting notes, action logs, and supporting documentation to improve visibility into key project controls information.
  • Partner with internal stakeholder groups to collect required data, identify gaps, validate completeness, and support readiness criteria and escalation paths.
  • Help ensure Project Intake information is accurate, structured, current, and available for leadership and stakeholder review.


Cost Management & Commercial Support
  • Support cost management activities across the construction lifecycle, including estimate review, cost planning, cost validation, change order review, cost impact tracking, and contingency support.
  • Assist with estimate and cost planning deliverables, including gathering inputs, reviewing cost plans, preparing summaries, and supporting updates at design and planning milestones.
  • Participate with design, delivery, construction, general contractor, and cost partner teams to collect cost information and reconcile estimate or pricing inputs.
  • Support written comments, summaries, and review materials for contractor submissions, estimates, cost reports, change order requests, and pricing packages.
  • Help maintain cost impact logs, contingency trackers, commitment trackers, valuation support files, and change control documentation.
  • Support value engineering, design optioneering, cost benchmarking, final account support, and compilation of as-built cost records where applicable.


Reporting, Data Quality & Digital Partnership
  • Support development and maintenance of dashboards, pipeline trackers, cost reports, readiness scorecards, funding data presentations, and recurring leadership reporting inputs.
  • Work with the Data & Digital Excellence team and functional stakeholders to define reporting inputs, dashboard requirements, data quality checks, and data governance expectations.
  • Validate data completeness, consistency, and accuracy across project intake, cost, commercial, schedule, and readiness information.
  • Use reporting outputs to help identify trends, bottlenecks, missing data, milestone slippage, cost risks, readiness gaps, decision dependencies, and automation opportunities.
  • Prepare monthly cost reports, portfolio updates, meeting materials, executive summaries, and decision-support content for review by senior team members and leadership.


Stakeholder Coordination
  • Coordinate with Project Intake and stakeholder groups including Site Selection, Capacity Planning, Customer teams, Design and Engineering, Estimating, Scheduling, Commercial, Legal, Procurement, Finance, Delivery, Construction, and Data & Digital Excellence.
  • Collect, organize, validate, and report information required to support project and portfolio decision-making.
  • Support cross-functional working sessions focused on cost, schedule, data quality, reporting standards, process alignment, milestone governance, readiness requirements, and commercial considerations.
  • Help improve data discipline, reporting accuracy, accountability, decision visibility, and adoption of standard processes across matrixed teams.
  • Communicate project controls updates, risks, trends, and recommended next steps clearly to managers, stakeholders, and leadership audiences.


Process Support & Continuous Improvement
  • Support the development of standardized Global Program Controls processes for Project Intake, LOI reporting, readiness reviews, cost management, reporting inputs, and executive reporting support.
  • Create and maintain templates, process maps, data standards, operating rhythms, cost reporting formats, and benchmark support materials.
  • Track controls performance indicators such as intake completeness, reporting accuracy, milestone adherence, cost forecast quality, readiness quality, change control performance, and cycle-time improvement.
  • Identify process gaps, propose practical improvements, support implementation, and help sustain process adoption across teams.
  • Support internal business management systems, delivery methodologies, tools, and SOX control responsibilities where applicable.


Responsibilities

Required Qualifications
  • 8+ years of experience in project controls, program controls, cost management, construction controls, infrastructure planning, preconstruction, quantity surveying, or capital program management.
  • Experience supporting data center, mission-critical, cloud infrastructure, AI infrastructure, construction, or other complex infrastructure development environments preferred.
  • Working understanding of project controls, including cost tracking, estimate review, schedule milestones, risk tracking, forecasting, portfolio reporting, and change control.
  • Experience supporting cost planning, cost validation, contractor pricing review, cost reporting, change order review, contingency tracking, or commercial documentation.
  • Experience maintaining trackers, dashboards, reports, databases, templates, or data quality control processes.
  • Ability to work across matrixed organizations, coordinate with multiple stakeholder groups, and follow through on assigned actions with minimal supervision.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to summarize technical, commercial, cost, schedule, and data issues clearly.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Architecture, Business, Finance, Data Analytics, or a related discipline.
  • Experience supporting medium to large construction or infrastructure projects of medium to high complexity.
  • Construction consultancy, owner's representative, general contractor, hyperscale infrastructure, or project controls experience.
  • Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Primavera P6, Oracle Unifier, estimating systems, project management platforms, cost management systems, or similar reporting/database platforms.
  • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, procurement routes, contracts, value management, and value engineering.
  • Experience preparing project controls, cost management, commercial, or portfolio information for management or leadership review.


Role Expectations

This is a visible support role within Global Program Controls that will help connect Project Intake, cost management, commercial controls, reporting, and execution readiness activities. The role requires a proactive, organized, and detail-oriented contributor who can help bring structure to ambiguity, maintain reliable project controls information, and support consistent decision-making across stakeholder groups.

The Project Controls Program Lead is expected to demonstrate ownership, collaboration, clear communication, follow-through, and service delivery while partnering with senior team members and cross-functional stakeholders to improve consistency, transparency, and execution support across the portfolio.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $90,100 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC4

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