Regional Schedule Lead, Data Center Project Controls

About the Job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

In this role, you will be responsible for driving strategic, complex, cross-organizational programs, establishing influence, and optimizing processes to achieve significant business impact. Implementing established program controls approach that is flexible, effective, efficient, and responsive to stakeholders as well as executive leadership reporting needs.

You will be a scheduled subject matter expert on data center construction in greenfield, brownfield, co-location and retrofit facilities (schedule, risk and change management). Working closely with the cross-functional team members, overseeing and implementing planning/scheduling, progressing methods/tools to establish integrated project schedule planning as we analyze new technology to deploy and build new Data Center's. You will lead efforts to improve operational efficiency, cycle times, reliability, predictability, and on-time delivery.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving team behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Responsibilities

• Drive regional Project Controls Scheduling strategy and execution in line with the Commercial and Program Controls Framework, aligning timelines, acceleration efforts, and capex funding.
• Provide robust schedule oversight across APAC projects through close cross-functional collaboration to protect company interests and deliver on core mission priorities.
• Develop CPM and WBS-compliant Project Baseline Schedules and implement a local Earned Value Management system with full cost and resource loading for real-time progress tracking.
• Serve as the primary strategic contact for schedule controls and program health, managing status reports, OKRs, and performance metrics to guide key stakeholder decisions.
• Lead strategic planning and risk management across APAC while integrating AI tools and automation to streamline project performance reporting and improve team efficiency.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management/Economics, Industrial Engineering or an Engineering degree in the Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, or other technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience managing technical programs and technology facility construction projects.
• Experience managing the project lifecycle and distilling project data into concise executive reporting.
• Experience driving process standardization and operational efficiency improvements across project execution.
• Experience with industry-standard construction scheduling tools.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master's degree with a technical emphasis or other technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven expertise in project controls for large-scale capital projects, with a strong focus on schedule planning, management, and launching data center infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Possess technical knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and network systems.
• Proficient in key construction and scheduling software, including Primavera (P6 and P3), MS Project, Acumen Fuse, and Bentley Navisworks 4D.
• Skilled at driving stakeholder engagement and leveraging AI platforms and project management tools to maximize process efficiency.

Additional Information

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.