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nLighten is a leading European edge data centre platform operating across key markets throughout Europe. Founded in 2021, we are redefining digital infrastructure through our vision of being Close, Coupled and Connected, bringing sustainable, highly connected data centres closer to the businesses and communities we serve. As a fast-growing company, we are helping power the future of AI, cloud and digital innovation across Europe.

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• Establish and lead the project controls function across a portfolio of capital projects
  • Develop and maintain best-in-class project controls frameworks, methodologies, governance, and reporting standards
  • Provide independent oversight of project costs, budgets, forecasts, risks, and contingency management
  • Ensure project controls information supports strategic decision-making by the Executive Leadership Team and Board
  • Drive consistency of cost and schedule reporting across all projects and delivery partners
  • Translate fluently between the contract sum analyses and works packages of the construction team and the accounting and investment metrics of the finance team

Cost Management & Capital Governance

• Hold overall responsibility for project cost control, budget management, and capital expenditure tracking
  • Challenge and validate project forecasts, commitments, accruals, and change requests
  • Oversee financial performance against approved business cases and investment approvals
  • Lead project cost reviews and provide early identification of commercial and financial risks
  • Embed robust capital governance processes throughout the project lifecycle
  • Support the CFO in financial planning, cash flow forecasting, and capital allocation decisions

Data Centre Development Expertise

• Provide subject matter expertise across data centre construction and commissioning environments
  • Bring a clear understanding of the cost drivers associated with civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and technology infrastructure delivery
  • Oversee cost control through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness
  • Benchmark project performance against industry standards and market trends

Management of External Partners

• Lead relationships with external cost management, project controls, and quantity surveying consultancies
  • Establish clear performance expectations, KPIs, and governance mechanisms for third party advisors
  • Challenge external consultants constructively to ensure accuracy, accountability, and value for money
  • Review and approve methodologies, estimates, forecasts, and reporting produced by external partners
  • Ensure alignment between internal objectives and outsourced delivery teams

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Lead and develop a small team of project controls professionals, including quantity surveying, cost management, and capital cost specialists
  • Define the appropriate balance between insourced and outsourced project controls activity, building internal capability while optimising the use of external specialists
  • Foster a high-performance culture focused on accuracy, accountability, and collaboration
  • Act as a trusted advisor to the CFO, CTO, and Construction leadership team
  • Work collaboratively across Finance, Construction, Procurement, and Technology
  • Communicate project performance, risks, and opportunities to senior executives and investment stakeholders, and support Board-level reporting and governance forums

• 15+ years of experience in project controls, cost management, quantity surveying, commercial management, or capital programme leadership
  • Significant experience delivering large-scale data centre projects, or major construction and infrastructure programmes
  • Proven experience leading project controls functions within owner, developer, contractor, or consultancy environments
  • Demonstrated success managing external project controls, cost management, and quantity surveying consultancies
  • Strong understanding of capital project governance, forecasting, earned value management, and cost reporting
  • Experience working closely with Finance leadership, including CFO-level stakeholders
  • Proven ability to manage both internal teams and outsourced service providers within a complex delivery environment
  • Advanced cost control and forecasting expertise, with strong commercial acumen and analytical capability
  • Executive presence, with the ability to influence and challenge credibly at senior and Board level
  • High attention to detail and governance discipline, alongside excellent communication and reporting skills
  • Degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management, Finance, or a related discipline
  • Professional accreditation such as MRICS, ACostE, APM, PMI, or equivalent recognised qualification
  • Fluent in English; additional European languages are advantageous
  • Willingness to travel across European locations as required