Project Controls — Data Center Design & Construction, Principal

About the Role
Hut 8 is building large-scale energy and digital infrastructure including data center campuses with capital budgets in excess of $500 million per project. We are seeking a Principal Project Controls to serve as the cost schedule and financial conscience of our construction program. Embedded within project teams this role owns project estimating budgeting forecasting and cost reporting across active developments and acts as the connective tissue between field execution and corporate finance (FP&A) Treasury and Strategic Finance.
This is a high-visibility position: you will prepare and deliver weekly reporting to executive leadership and you must be comfortable challenging project managers general contractors and vendors when the numbers schedule or scope dont hold up. Independence sound judgment and full transparency in escalating problems are essential to success in this role.
Key Responsibilities
Project Controls & Estimating

• Own project controls across assigned capital projects ($100M): budgets cost tracking forecasting (EAC/ETC) change management contingency management and cash flow projections.
• Develop and pressure-test project estimates at each stage gate from conceptual and feasibility estimates through GMP validation and buyout and reconcile estimates against actuals.
• Monitor contractor schedules and cost reports; perform variance analysis on cost and schedule and drive corrective action with the project team.
• Review pay applications change orders and invoices for accuracy contract compliance and alignment to budget before approval.

Construction Finance & FP&A

• Partner with corporate FP&A and Accounting on capital planning accruals monthly close support and reconciliation of project costs between PMIS and ERP systems.
• Maintain project-level financial models supporting capital commitments funding draws and reforecasts.
• Support development of annual and multi-year capital budgets for the construction portfolio.

Reporting & Executive Communication

• Prepare and present weekly project status and cost reports to the C-suite; deliver monthly portfolio-level reporting covering budget health forecast movement risks and key decisions required.
• Communicate clearly and credibly with executives distilling complex project data into concise decision-ready reporting.
• Establish and maintain consistent weekly and monthly reporting cadences templates and KPIs across projects.

Risk Escalation & Site Presence

• Proactively identify and flag cost schedule scope and commercial issues with a full-escalation mindset: no surprises to leadership.
• Push back constructively on project managers contractors and vendors when forecasts change orders or schedules are not supportable.
• Travel to active project sites (25% of time self-managed cadence) to validate progress verify percent-complete against billings and stay connected to field realities.

Qualifications

• 47 years of experience in project controls cost engineering construction finance or FP&A supporting large capital construction projects; data center mission-critical energy or heavy industrial experience strongly preferred.
• Direct experience on projects of $500M total installed cost working embedded with project delivery teams.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge and influence project managers contractors and senior stakeholders with data-driven analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including experience reporting to executive or C-suite audiences.
• Bachelors degree in Construction Management Engineering Finance Accounting or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Willingness and ability to travel 25% to project sites across North America.

Systems & Tools

• PMIS: Hands-on experience with project management information systems (e.g. Procore Kahua e-Builder Unifier or similar).
• ERP: NetSuite strongly preferred; experience with QuickBooks or comparable ERP/accounting platforms acceptable.
• Excel: Advanced proficiency complex models pivot tables lookups; Power BI or similar dashboarding a plus.
• Scheduling: Working familiarity with Primavera P6 and/or MS Project a plus.

ABOUT THE WORK ENVIRONMENT

This role isin office at our corporate headquarters in the Brickell area of Miami Florida. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.