Director, Construction Project Control

About GlobalFoundries:

GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world’s most inspired technology companies. 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.

Summary of Role:

The 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.

The 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.

The 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.

Essential Responsibilities:

A. Integrated Project Controls & Governance

• •Establish and lead the overall project controls framework, standards, procedures, reporting systems, and governance requirements for major semiconductor construction projects.
• •Develop and maintain an integrated master schedule encompassing engineering, procurement, construction, cleanroom delivery, facilities systems, AMHS, tool installation, commissioning, qualification, and operational readiness.
• •Ensure alignment between the project schedule, cost plan, procurement strategy, construction sequencing, resource requirements, and business milestones.
• •Establish clear performance measurement criteria, reporting requirements, and accountability across the Owner’s Team, EPC/EPCM partners, general contractors, and subcontractors.
• •Implement consistent project controls standards aligned with the global construction organization, enabling benchmarking and lessons learned across multiple sites and projects.
• •Maintain the integrity, accuracy, and traceability of project controls data and ensure that project decisions are based on validated information.

B. Schedule Management & Critical Path

• •Lead the development, validation, and management of the integrated master schedule, including baseline approval, periodic updates, and schedule recovery strategies.
• •Independently assess contractor schedules, logic, durations, productivity assumptions, resource loading, constraints, and critical path integrity.
• •Identify critical and near-critical activities, schedule interfaces, long-lead equipment, permitting requirements, and potential threats to key milestones.
• •Integrate engineering deliverables, procurement commitments, construction work packages, system turnover, tool delivery, installation, and commissioning into a coordinated execution plan.
• •Establish measurable progress rules and objectively validate actual progress against planned performance.
• •Lead schedule risk assessments, delay analysis, time-impact assessments, and mitigation planning.
• •Develop and challenge recovery schedules, acceleration plans, and resource strategies when performance falls behind baseline.
• •Provide early warning of milestone risks and present clear, actionable recommendations to the Project Director.

C. Cost Management & Forecasting

• •Establish and maintain the overall project cost baseline, control budget, commitments, actual expenditures, accruals, contingency, and forecast-at-completion.
• •Lead cost forecasting and cash-flow projections across engineering, procurement, construction, equipment installation, commissioning, and start-up.
• •Monitor total installed cost (TIC), capital expenditure (CAPEX), cost trends, cost variances, and exposure to potential overruns.
• •Validate contractor payment applications, progress claims, change orders, and cost submissions against contractual requirements and verified progress.
• •Challenge contractor cost forecasts, productivity assumptions, resource levels, indirect costs, and commercial exposure.
• •Maintain visibility of committed and uncommitted costs, contingency utilization, management reserves where applicable, and remaining cost to complete.
• •Identify cost-saving opportunities and evaluate the financial impact of proposed scope changes, schedule recovery, and acceleration measures.
• •Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting to project leadership and corporate stakeholders.

D. Progress Measurement & Performance Management

• •Establish a consistent, objective, and auditable progress measurement system across all project phases and contracting partners.
• •Integrate engineering deliverables, procurement status, fabrication, material delivery, construction quantities, system completion, and commissioning progress into a consolidated performance dashboard.
• •Compare planned versus actual progress and evaluate schedule performance, productivity, resource utilization, and milestone achievement.
• •Implement earned value management (EVM), where appropriate, including schedule performance index (SPI), cost performance index (CPI), and estimate-at-completion analysis.
• •Verify physical progress through field validation, quantity tracking, installed work measurements, and coordination with construction management.
• •Identify discrepancies between reported progress and actual field conditions, ensuring that performance reporting reflects verifiable accomplishments rather than contractor-reported percentages alone.
• •Establish clear accountability for corrective actions and track their effectiveness until closure.

E. Risk, Change & Opportunity Management

• •Lead the integrated project risk and opportunity management process, including identification, assessment, quantification, mitigation, and escalation.
• •Maintain a consolidated risk register covering schedule, cost, engineering, procurement, construction, EHSS, interfaces, commissioning, and operational readiness.
• •Conduct quantitative schedule and cost risk assessments where appropriate, including probabilistic forecasting and contingency analysis.
• •Establish a disciplined change control process to evaluate proposed changes to scope, cost, schedule, design, execution strategy, and contractual obligations.
• •Assess the cumulative impact of changes and prevent unapproved scope growth, uncontrolled commitments, and erosion of contingency.
• •Identify emerging trends and early-warning indicators before they become material project issues.
• •Provide decision-ready recommendations on risk mitigation, contingency allocation, schedule protection, and cost optimization.

F. Procurement, Contracts & Commercial Controls

• •Integrate procurement schedules, long-lead equipment, purchase orders, vendor deliverables, manufacturing progress, logistics, and site delivery into the master project controls system.
• •Monitor procurement performance against required-on-site dates and identify potential impacts on construction sequencing, tool installation, and project milestones.
• •Establish cost and schedule visibility across EPC, EPCM, construction management, direct contracts, and owner-direct procurement packages.
• •Support tendering, bid evaluation, commercial comparisons, and contractor selection through independent cost and schedule assessments.
• •Monitor contractual milestones, notices, variations, claims, extensions of time, and potential entitlement exposure in coordination with contracts and commercial management.
• •Maintain traceability between approved scope, contract commitments, c