Senior Construction Project Manager

Project Manager / Project Executive, Multi-Craft Industrial Operations

Location: Dallas, TX (On-Site and Field-Embedded) | Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Compensation: $120,000 to $200,000+ Base Salary, plus project completion bonuses

(calibrated to seniority: PM, Senior PM, or Project Executive)

About the Role

Workspire is partnering with an established, institutionally backed industrial services platform that self-performs the full lifecycle of heavy industrial work across electrical, mechanical, structural, soft craft, underground utilities, fabrication, and inspection. The organization is in an aggressive scale-up phase across the South and Southwest, with the Dallas Metroplex positioned as one of its most strategically significant regional builds.

This is not a backfill. It is a foundational hire on a leadership team that is being deliberately constructed ahead of the work, not after it. The regional president is running an intentional, team-first scaling strategy: assemble the operators, then unleash them on the pipeline. You will be reporting to the Dallas Area Manager and stepping into a peer leadership group that is actively shaping how project execution gets standardized across the region. The PMO and Field Operations are structured as co-equal counterparts, not parent and child, and the right candidate treats superintendents, general foremen, and foremen as partners rather than reports. If you have spent your career waiting for an organization that will hand you real ownership, real autonomy, and a blank-canvas mandate to build, this is that role. If you actually read this far, email me directly at joseph at workspire dot co and use the subject line I see you; that is how we know you read past the headline.

The vertical aperture here is intentionally wide. The organization is actively diversifying its Dallas portfolio into mechanical and soft craft scopes where the bench is currently thinnest, while preserving its electrical and energy infrastructure core. Top-tier operators from mission critical, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, power generation, oil and gas, chemical, water, mining and metals, pharmaceutical, renewables, aviation, or federal industrial environments are equally welcome, provided the execution profile is real.

What You'll Do

• Stand Up the Project Execution Playbook for Your Vertical
• Within your first six to twelve months, establish the standard operating procedures, controls cadence, and reporting rhythm for your specific craft vertical (Critical Electrical, Mechanical and Structural, Soft Crafts, Underground and Utilities, Inspection, or Fabrication). The framework does not yet exist at the regional level. That is the opportunity.
• Take Hands-On Ownership of Project Execution, Not Oversight
• Personally own RFIs, submittals, change orders, project scheduling, and craft-specific takeoffs. This is a direct-ownership role, not a delegate-and-review role. Candidates who have only supervised these activities through subordinates will not match the field-embedded model the organization is building.
• Execute Complex Industrial Projects with Margin Discipline
• Maintain strict cost-to-complete governance, tracking earned versus burned labor, and feeding accurate forecasting data upward. Drive change order capture, RFI cycle time reduction, and schedule adherence against baseline. Project P&L performance is the scoreboard.
• Walk the Jobsites
• Conduct regular site walks across active Dallas-Fort Worth projects, partnering directly with superintendents, general foremen, and field crews on constructability and execution. The role expects 6x10 field schedules through heavy project execution phases. Office time is the exception, not the default.
• Build the Bench Behind You
• Mentor project engineers and junior PMs as the Dallas bench expands. Contribute to the talent flywheel by identifying and referring superintendents, foremen, and PM-track operators from your prior networks. The region is being scaled deliberately, and the team you help bring in will be the team you execute with.
• Convert Scopes Into Embedded Service Relationships
• Leverage execution wins to convert initial project scopes into longer-term, run-and-maintain service agreements with industrial owners. This is how the platform compounds in each market it enters.
• Coordinate Across the Self-Perform Stack
• Partner with estimating, preconstruction, safety, quality, procurement, accounting, and project controls. Manage subcontractor onboarding and trade partner performance. Run owner and prime contractor communications with clarity and zero corporate veneer.

What We Are Looking For (Required)

• Demonstrated project management experience in heavy industrial, specialty contracting, energy infrastructure, or large-scale facilities construction. Self-perform contracting fluency is essential. This is not a CM or pure GC environment.
• Direct, personal ownership of RFIs, submittals, change orders, and cost-to-complete forecasting. You have done the work yourself, not just signed off on it.
• Deep domain expertise in at least one core vertical: Critical Electrical, Mechanical and Structural, Soft Crafts, Underground and Utilities, Inspection, or Fabrication. Willingness to grow across the others is expected.
• Mastery of project controls and schedule discipline, including earned value management, forecast-at-completion, and proactive change management. Fluency with Procore, Bluebeam Revu, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, or comparable industrial-grade platforms.
• Field-ready safety acumen. Clear understanding of TRIR, EMR, JSAs, and leading indicators, with the credibility to enforce safety culture on a self-perform jobsite without being the office's safety guy.
• Texas market familiarity is a plus but not required. Permit, inspection, and labor environment knowledge across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is helpful but learnable for the right operator.

How to Stand Out (Preferred)

• Operational depth in large-scale industrial construction or EPC environments where you directly managed project execution across multi-discipline scopes (electrical, mechanical, structural, utilities, fabrication, or inspection) and maintained rigorous cost and schedule controls.
• Owner-side or industrial-operator experience at companies such as ONEOK, Phillips 66, or comparable owner-operators, for relationship and procurement perspective.
• Mechanical, Structural, Substation, Utilities, Water Solutions, and/or Soft Craft execution background. The bench gap in Dallas is real, and this is where the immediate opportunity is highest.

Soft Skills and Cultural Fit

• Hands-on owner mentality. Remote-manager profiles will not survive here.
• Field-credible communication. Direct, plain-spoken, empirically grounded. The same person briefs executive leadership and runs a stand-up with foremen.
• Builder mindset. Comfortable contributing to a team being stood up rather than joining a fully scaffolded machine.
• Attitude-forward. The resume is treated as the introduction. Field experience, personality, and fit carry the differentiating weight.
• Peer-partnership instinct. Territorial behavior, status games, and oversight-layer reflexes are disqualifying.

If you meet eighty to eighty-five percent of these criteria and the role still feels like the one you have been waiting for, we want to hear from you.

Why This Role Stands Out

• Ground-floor leverage in the region's most strategic build. You are joining a leadership team that is being deliberately assembled ahead of the work, not retroactively staffed after contracts close. The fingerprints you leave on the regional playbook will be visible for years.
• Direct line of sight to executive leadership. You will work closely with the Dallas Area Manager and the regional president. Your forecasts, your scoreboard, and your judgment will reach the top of the regional P&L.
• A bench-building organization. Internal mobility is real and measurable. The platform invests heavily in operators who can both execute and develop the people behind them.
• Compensation that reflects the seriousness of the seat. Base salary band from $120,000 to $200,000 plus project completion bonuses, calibrated to PM, Senior PM, or Project Executive tier. Full medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, and the broader benefits package commensurate with a growth-stage industrial platform.

Workspire Insight

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