Director, Data Center Program Controls

Summary

Bells AI Fabric program is a groundbreaking national initiative designed to position Canada as a global leader in Sovereign AI. By building a secure highperformance coasttocoast compute fabric Bell is creating the foundational infrastructure required to power the next generation of AI innovation while ensuring data sovereignty reliability and scalability at national scale.

Bell is seeking a Director of Data Center Program Controls to provide independent disciplined oversight of cost schedule change and delivery performance across major data center programs. This role ensures predictability transparency and executive confidence in the delivery of missioncritical infrastructure by owning capital financial integrity schedule analytics and governance processes at a national scale.

Key Responsibilities

Capital Cost & Financial Controls

• Own capital cost baselines commitments actuals forecastsatcompletion and variance analysis across the data centre portfolio.
• Ensure cost controls are consistently applied auditready and aligned to approved funding and governance frameworks.

Schedule Management & Analytics

• Govern the Integrated Master Schedule ensuring logicdriven riskaware schedules aligned across engineering procurement construction commissioning and operational readiness.
• Lead critical path analysis and forwardlooking schedule risk assessment to support predictable delivery.

Change Control & Impact Governance

• Lead Change Control Board (CCB) governance ensuring cost and schedule impacts are fully quantified and approved prior to execution.
• Enforce disciplined sequencing decision rights and documentation standards for all material changes.

Reporting & Executive Decision Support

• Define project controls reporting standards KPI dictionaries and executive reporting cadence.
• Translate complex cost and schedule data into clear decisionoriented insights for executive leadership.

Risk & Contingency Governance

• Own programlevel RAID governance including quantification of cost and schedule risks.
• Govern contingency allocation and drawdown to prevent unmanaged erosion and latestage surprises.

Controls Systems & Data Integrity

• Own governance configuration and data integrity of project controls systems across cost schedule and reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement in controls tools data standards and analytics maturity.

Critical Qualifications

• 1015 years of experience supporting major capital or missioncritical infrastructure programs.
• 7 years in senior project controls PMO or capital governance leadership roles.
• Demonstrated expertise in cost control schedule management and change governance for complex multistakeholder programs.
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate controls data into actionable decisions.
• Experience operating in auditsensitive governancedriven environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of industrystandard project controls tools including Primavera P6 for integrated scheduling and enterprise cost management systems (e.g. EcoSys SAP eBuilder Procore or equivalent).
• Ability to challenge schedule logic critical path validity and cost forecast integrity at an expert level.
• Experience supporting data centre hyperscale or missioncritical facility builds.
• Professional certifications such as PMP PSP EVP CCP or equivalent.

Additional Requirements

Adequate knowledge of French is required for positions in Quebec.