Project Manager, Critical Facilities Construction

Project Manager, Critical Facilities Construction

Travel: Regular travel required to project sites in Jacksonville, FL, Salt Lake City, UT, Dallas, TX, Pecos, TX, and St. Louis, MO

Our client is seeking a Project Manager, Critical Facilities Construction to take ownership of technically demanding construction projects supporting critical infrastructure environments. This is an opportunity to join a growing project organization where you will have meaningful influence from early planning through final turnover. The position combines the flexibility of a nationwide remote home base with hands-on involvement at active project sites across several key markets. For a construction professional who enjoys solving complex problems, leading diverse project teams, and delivering facilities where quality and reliability are essential, this role offers significant visibility and responsibility.

This Role Offers:

• High visibility position connecting clients, design partners, field leadership, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders throughout the full project lifecycle.
• Opportunity to work on technically demanding data center and critical infrastructure projects where schedule discipline, quality, and reliability matter.
• Broad project responsibility spanning preconstruction, procurement, cost management, field coordination, client communication, and closeout.
• Career development through challenging assignments, collaboration with experienced construction professionals, and opportunities to mentor others.
• Comprehensive benefits may include medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement programs, paid time off, and professional development resources.

Focus:

• Own assigned critical facility construction projects from early planning through turnover, keeping scope, schedule, cost, quality, and field execution aligned.
• Build practical project plans with field leadership and trade partners, then actively manage milestones, sequencing, constraints, and recovery actions.
• Support preconstruction pursuits by developing budgets, milestone schedules, proposal content, and presentation materials when needed.
• Review evolving design packages with architects, engineers, and field teams to surface constructability concerns, cost impacts, and scope gaps before they reach the field.
• Lead procurement activities for major scopes, including bid strategy, subcontractor qualification, proposal evaluation, leveling, negotiation, and award recommendations.
• Maintain disciplined financial control through forecasting, cost reporting, change management, billing, collections, and subcontractor and vendor payment review.
• Coordinate permitting, inspections, authority requirements, submittals, and other documentation needed to keep construction moving toward final approval.
• Serve as a trusted point of contact for clients, communicating progress, decisions, risks, changes, and commercial matters clearly and consistently.
• Partner with superintendents and project teams to monitor field progress, safety, quality, and contract compliance, taking corrective action when conditions require it.
• Address subcontractor and supplier performance issues with timely documentation, escalation, and resolution strategies.
• Drive project closeout, owner acceptance, turnover documentation, and warranty follow through.
• Coach developing construction professionals through day-to-day guidance, knowledge sharing, and hands on project exposure.

Skill Set:

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• At least 3 years of construction management experience, with demonstrated responsibility for project delivery.
• Experience with data center or other critical facility design and construction is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of estimating, construction methods, project controls, building systems, equipment, and construction technology.
• Proven ability to manage budgets, schedules, materials, subcontractors, and competing priorities across fast moving projects.
• Strong understanding of construction safety expectations and the judgment to reinforce safe execution in the field.
• Clear communication, organization, collaboration, supervision, and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Ability to travel regularly to active project locations, including Jacksonville, Florida, Salt Lake City, Utah, Dallas and Pecos, Texas, and St. Louis, Missouri.
• Comfort working in active construction environments and performing site visits that may involve standing, walking, climbing, bending, and handling light to medium materials.

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