Data Center Electrical Project Lead

Ellaway Blues Consulting; Tennessee; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ellaway Blues Consulting seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead complex electrical construction projects in data centers and mission-critical facilities. You will guide preconstruction through field execution, ensuring alignment of commercial, technical, and logistical aspects to deliver on time and within budget.

You will collaborate with owners, engineers, and trade partners, manage fast-paced design-build and design-assist efforts, review drawings and schedules, and drive procurement,

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale electrical construction projects.
• Strong preconstruction, estimating, procurement, and commercial delivery background.
• Ability to interpret drawings, specs, contracts, schedules, and cost reports.
• Experience in fast-track environments (design-build/design-assist).
• Familiarity with BIM/VDC coordination and long-lead equipment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Comfortable leading cross-functional teams in a high-growth setting.

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning and preconstruction efforts, establishing scope, schedule, cost plan, staffing, procurement, logistics, and execution plan before mobilization.
• Review drawings, specs, contracts, bid documents, and responsibility matrices for gaps, risks, and opportunities.
• Direct the estimating process, including electrical takeoffs, labor assumptions, vendor pricing, general conditions, and BIM/VDC costs.
• Develop proposals, pricing, and commercial terms; lead pricing discussions with clients and partners.
• Manage subcontractor and vendor sourcing, bid leveling, and selection.
• Build procurement plans emphasizing long-lead electrical equipment and milestone-based purchasing.
• Collaborate with controls and estimating teams to set cost codes, WBS, schedules of values, and budgets.
• Review schedules for critical-path concerns and sequencing risks.
• Lead constructability reviews with BIM/VDC, design, prefab, and field teams.
• Identify value-engineering opportunities to improve constructability and reduce cost.
• Support design-assist and coordination via RFIs, design changes, and decisions.
• Establish project risk registers and tracking systems for actions and readiness.
• Coordinate permitting, inspections, licensing, and other pre-mobilization requirements.
• Ensure QA/QC, safety, commissioning, and turnover requirements are addressed.
• Partner with field leadership for a smooth transition from preconstruction to execution.
• Serve as primary client contact for strategy, commercial matters, cost, schedule, and scope.

Skills

Project management

Preconstruction

Estimating

Procurement

Subcontractor management

BIM/VDC coordination

Design-build experience

Design-assist experience

Communication

Stakeholder management

Job description

Ellaway Blues Consulting seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead complex electrical construction projects in data centers and mission-critical facilities. You will guide preconstruction through field execution, ensuring alignment of commercial, technical, and logistical aspects to deliver on time and within budget.

You will collaborate with owners, engineers, and trade partners, manage fast-paced design-build and design-assist efforts, review drawings and schedules, and drive procurement,