
Project Controls Specialist - Data Center
Remote · USFull-time$81–108K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Iron Mountain is seeking a Project Controls Specialist for its Data Center development team. The role provides cost and commercial management processes and reporting across North American projects, working with commercial leaders and project teams from project inception through completion. The specialist oversees financial processes, supports change control, and contributes to governance and training materials.
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At Iron Mountain we know that work, when done well, makes a positive impact for our customers, our employees, and our planet. That’s why we need smart, committed people to join us. Whether you’re looking to start your career or make a change, talk to us and see how you can elevate the power of your work at Iron Mountain.
We provide expert, sustainable solutions in records and information management, digital transformation services, data centers, asset lifecycle management, and fine art storage, handling, and logistics. We proudly partner every day with our 225,000 customers around the world to preserve their invaluable artifacts, extract more from their inventory, and protect their data privacy in innovative and socially responsible ways.
Are you curious about being part of our growth story while evolving your skills in a culture that will welcome your unique contributions? If so, let's start the conversation.
Iron Mountain is seeking a motivated and experienced Project Controls Specialist to join our Data Center development team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing an effective cost and commercial management process and reporting mechanism across the North America portfolio of projects. You will work closely with the North America Commercial Director and Project Team Commercial Managers to ensure all financial processes run smoothly from project inception to completion. What You’ll Do (Responsibilities) In this role, you will:
- Lead Financial Oversight: Create and manage a cost and commercial management process while ensuring project forecasts align with current funding, billings, and month-end/yearly close-out activities.
- Drive Change Control: Support the change control process by evaluating budget revisions, reviewing contractor invoices, and flagging potential risks or changes in a timely and transparent manner.
- Ensure Governance & Compliance: Contribute as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to the development of governance and training materials while ensuring all projects operate within approved parameters and organizational standards.
What You’ll Bring (Skills & Qualifications) The ideal candidate will have:
- Extensive Experience: At least 5-7 years of experience in the delivery of mission-critical construction projects, specifically within corporate real estate or military settings.
- Financial Expertise: Demonstrated proficiency in budgeting, accounting, and the use of cost control systems such as Oracle, Tririga, or Google Live Sheets.
- Strong Leadership: Proven ability to influence stakeholders through logical arguments, think creatively, and operate with substantial independence.
- Education: A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Business, or a related field; professional certifications like PMP or P.E. are industry-standard and highly desirable.
What We Offer (Benefits)
- Total Rewards: Competitive compensation and benefits packages aligned with your experience level.
- Work-Life Balance: Flexible work options and alternative work arrangements to support your personal well-being.
- Time Off: Generous paid time off and holiday schedules.
- Well-being: Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.
- Growth: Meaningful opportunities for continuous learning and professional career growth.
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Reasonably expected salary range: $81,200.00 - $108,300.00 Please note that an employee's starting salary may vary based on a variety of factors. Where State, Municipal, Provincial, Territorial or other legal minimum wages exceed the federal minimum wage, employees are entitled to the higher rate.
Category: Real Estate & Facilities
How this job compares
Set against the 2,893 open Project Controls jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$81–108K/yr
- Illinois median$97–154K/yr72 salary ranges
- US median$91–154K/yr2,087 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $95K, is 23% below the Illinois median midpoint ($123K) — in the lowest quarter of Project Controls salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 88 open Project Controls jobs in Illinois and 2,893 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- CDM Smith36 open
- Jacobs6 open
- Sargent & Lundy6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Project Controls postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,606 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 763 of the 2,893 open Project Controls jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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