Electrical Project Manager - Data Center Construction

Job Description

About the Company

The Newtron Group is one of the largest privately owned specialty industrial construction companies in the United States and a leading provider of industrial electrical and instrumentation services. The organization delivers innovative analytical, automation, heat trace, integration, and design solutions for a broad range of industries, offering comprehensive turn-key services from concept through construction. With offices across the Southeast and West Coast, The Newtron Group has completed projects nationwide and built strong partnerships with manufacturers, suppliers, and vendors. These relationships help secure competitive pricing and support a strong focus on service quality and long-term customer value, creating a dynamic environment for professionals seeking impactful, large-scale industrial projects.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Project Managers to lead the preconstruction, planning, and execution of large-scale data center projects at multiple locations throughout the United States. This position will have responsibility for the commercial, financial, scheduling, procurement, and preconstruction activities associated with the electrical construction scope and will play a key role in transitioning the project from preconstruction into field execution.

These are on-site project-based positions requiring the Project Manager to work at the assigned data center construction site. Per diem is available for eligible employees.

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning and preconstruction activities for the assigned electrical construction scope from early development through mobilization and execution.

• Review contract documents, drawings, specifications, responsibility matrices, and client requirements to identify scope gaps, exclusions, assumptions, risks, and opportunities.

• Develop and maintain the overall project execution strategy, including scope, schedule, budget, staffing, procurement, logistics, and project controls.

• Coordinate estimating activities, including electrical takeoffs, labor assumptions, subcontractor and vendor pricing, general conditions, BIM/VDC, prefabrication, temporary requirements, and other project-specific costs.

• Support proposal development, scope clarification, pricing revisions, commercial negotiations, and contract development.

• Maintain accountability for project cost, budget, forecasting, cash flow, billing, and overall financial performance.

• Establish and maintain the project's cost structure, including schedule of values, WBS, cost codes, labor hours, resource loading, and reporting requirements.

• Manage contract requirements, scope changes, change orders, commercial risks, and supporting cost documentation.

• Develop and maintain project risk assessments and mitigation strategies related to cost, schedule, labor, procurement, design, and execution.

• Lead development and review of the electrical construction schedule, including sequencing, critical path, design releases, procurement activities, resource requirements, and interfaces with other trades.

• Identify schedule risks and develop recovery or mitigation strategies with project leadership and key stakeholders.

• Develop and manage procurement strategies for electrical equipment, materials, subcontractors, and long-lead items.

• Coordinate vendor and subcontractor selection, bid leveling, scope alignment, pricing, lead times, and delivery requirements.

• Ensure procurement activities remain aligned with design releases, construction milestones, funding requirements, and the overall project schedule.

• Develop the project staffing and manpower strategy, including project organization, key personnel requirements, direct and indirect labor planning, anticipated manpower loading, and coordination with construction and field leadership.

• Develop work packaging strategies that integrate estimating, scheduling, BIM/VDC, prefabrication, kitting, procurement, material management, and field execution.

• Establish work packages that clearly define scope, schedule, labor requirements, materials, deliverables, and execution requirements.

• Lead constructability reviews to identify installation challenges, design conflicts, sequencing concerns, scope gaps, and opportunities to improve project execution.

• Identify and develop value-engineering opportunities that reduce cost, improve constructability, accelerate schedule, or improve overall project performance.

• Coordinate BIM/VDC and design-assist activities to support constructability, clash resolution, prefabrication, shop drawings, work packaging, layout, and construction milestones.

• Serve as a primary point of contact for the client, GC/CM, design team, subcontractors, vendors, and other project stakeholders.

• Lead recurring project and preconstruction meetings addressing scope, cost, schedule, design, procurement, constructability, and execution.

• Coordinate RFIs, design changes, technical decisions, and design releases and evaluate their impact on cost, schedule, procurement, and construction.

• Maintain clear communication, accountability, and timely resolution of project issues across the project team.

• Coordinate project-specific QA/QC, safety, logistics, permitting, commissioning, and turnover requirements with the appropriate project leaders.

• Ensure electrical commissioning requirements are incorporated into project planning, including equipment startup, energization, LOTO, testing, documentation, and support of L2-L5 commissioning activities as required.

• Ensure construction readiness by confirming that required personnel, equipment, materials, subcontractors, vendors, permits, systems, and processes are in place to support mobilization and field execution.

• Partner closely with construction and field leadership to transition the project from preconstruction into successful field execution.

• Maintain visibility into project performance and proactively identify issues that may impact cost, schedule, quality, safety, client commitments, or profitability.

Experience and Skill Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive project management experience in electrical construction or a closely related construction environment.

• Demonstrated experience managing large, technically complex electrical construction projects.

• Strong understanding of electrical construction estimating, scheduling, procurement, project controls, cost forecasting, contracts, and change management.

• Experience coordinating electrical construction with engineering, BIM/VDC, prefabrication, vendors, subcontractors, and field operations.

• Strong understanding of construction drawings, specifications, electrical systems, installation methods, and constructability.

• Demonstrated experience with project staffing, manpower planning, labor forecasting, and resource management.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment while maintaining accountability for cost, schedule, quality, and client commitments.

• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and client-facing skills.

• Proficiency with construction project management, scheduling, document-control, and cost-management systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous project management experience on hyperscale data centers, mission-critical facilities, semiconductor, advanced manufacturing, or similarly complex projects.

• Experience with large-scale electrical distribution systems and associated equipment, including medium- and low-voltage switchgear, transformers, generators, UPS systems, busway, and related infrastructure.

• Experience with BIM/VDC, electrical prefabrication, work packaging, kitting, and model-based construction coordination.

• Experience supporting equipment energization, startup, turnover, and commissioning on mission-critical projects.

• Familiarity with Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project.

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent electrical construction experience will also be considered.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for a Project Manager who understands how to take a major electrical construction project from preconstruction into execution.

The successful candidate will be able to connect estimating, design, procurement, BIM/VDC, prefabrication, work packaging, manpower planning, scheduling, project controls, commercial management, and construction planning into a coordinated project execution strategy.

This role requires someone who can anticipate problems before they reach the field, build strong relationships with clients and project partners, drive accountability across the project team, and establish the foundation necessary for safe, efficient, and successful electrical construction on a large-scale hyperscale data center project.