Project Executive, Controls Systems Integration (DC)

Barry-Wehmiller Companies Inc.; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

BW Design Group, a Barry-Wehmiller company, seeks a Project Executive with deep experience in low-voltage CSI and data center delivery. You will lead a dedicated construction team, manage budgets and schedules, coordinate with CSI design engineers, and ensure seamless handoff from design to field execution across fast-paced programs.

The role emphasizes client satisfaction, risk management, and a strong safety culture while you mentor PMs and superintendents to deliver high-performance

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive construction experience focused on low-voltage systems or building technology, especially in data centers.
• Experience leading construction teams (PMs and Superintendents) in a design-build setting.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of low-voltage CSI scope across multiple data center programs, ensuring schedule, budget, quality, and client satisfaction.
• Collaborate with internal CSI design/engineering during preconstruction to ensure constructability and transition from design to field.
• Own CSI construction scope budgets, change management, and contract administration across active programs.
• Build and mentor a high-performing construction team; promote standardized project management tools and processes.
• Coordinate with design/engineering and trade partners to optimize sequencing, logistics, and risk management.
• Support business development with technical narratives and win themes for design-build opportunities.

Skills

Low-voltage CSI

Construction leadership

Budgeting & forecasting

Client relations

Team development

Procore/Bluebeam/MS Project

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or related field

Tools

Procore

Bluebeam

MS Project

P6

Job description

About Us: BW Design Group is a fully integrated architecture, engineering, construction, system integration, and consulting firm committed to helping our clients realize their most critical goals from Strategy to Commercialization. As the only firm born from a manufacturing technology company to become an independent and fully integrated firm, we combine deep domain expertise in the manufacturing environment with an approach that is built to serve the dynamic needs of our clients. Rooted in our distinct culture of Truly Human Leadership, we cultivate the leaders who will define tomorrow and partner with our clients in the food & beverage, life sciences, industrial, and advanced technology industries to build the future of manufacturing and technology. Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

Job Description: About Us BW Design Group is a fully integrated architecture, engineering, construction, system integration, and consulting firm committed to helping clients turn strategy into execution across advanced industrial, manufacturing, and mission-critical environments. Rooted in our Truly Human Leadership culture, we partner with clients in food & beverage, life sciences, industrial, advanced technology, and data center markets to deliver high-performance, future-ready facilities. Barry-Wehmiller, our parent company, is a global engineering and manufacturing technology organization with over 12,000 team members who share one mission: use business to build a better world.

Who You'll Work With

As a Project Executive – Low Voltage CSI Construction (Data Centers), you will join our Architecture + Engineering + Construction (AEC) Business, collaborating with senior leaders, controls systems integration engineers, preconstruction teams, project managers, and mission-critical subject-matter experts. You will lead the construction delivery of low-voltage controls systems integration (CSI) scope on fast-paced, high-complexity data center programs across the U.S., ensuring operational excellence, schedule certainty, and alignment with client performance requirements. You'll build and lead a dedicated construction team, coordinate closely with our internal CSI design engineers, support pursuit strategy, and drive solutions that translate our clients' capital program goals into fully installed and operational low-voltage controls infrastructure.

What You'll Do

1. Construction Delivery Leadership – Low Voltage CSI (Data Centers) Serve as the senior construction executive accountable for the delivery of low-voltage controls systems integration scope across a portfolio of concurrent data center programs ranging from $5M to $50M per project. Own overall project execution — schedule, budget, quality, and client satisfaction — across multiple active programs simultaneously. Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, trade partners, and equipment suppliers specific to the low-voltage and controls market. Establish and manage project-level forecasts, budgets, and resource plans; ensure financial performance targets are met.
2. Preconstruction Coordination & Design-Build Transition Partner with internal CSI design and engineering teams during preconstruction to ensure constructability, scope clarity, and seamless transition from design to field execution. Participate in the review of design packages, bridging documents, and RFPs to provide construction-informed input on scheduling, sequencing, logistics, and trade partner strategy. Contribute construction pricing perspectives and scope validation during cost opinions at key stage gates (30%, 60%, 90%).
3. Project & Commercial Management Own CSI construction scope budgets, cost controls, and change management across all active programs. Lead scope reviews, trade partner negotiations, pricing justification, and contract administration for low-voltage CSI work packages. Ensure all controls systems installation work is sequenced, coordinated, and delivered in accordance with schedule milestones and critical path dependencies.
4. Team Building & Development Build, lead, and develop a high-performing construction delivery team of Project Managers and Superintendents dedicated to low-voltage CSI work in the mission-critical market. Mentor team members on construction best practices, project delivery standards, and professional growth. Promote the consistent use of project management tools, workflows, reporting standards, and best practices across the team.
5. Field Execution & Quality Provide strategic oversight and guidance to field teams on site logistics, manpower planning, subcontractor coordination, and installation standards for low-voltage systems including BMS, EPMS, structured cabling, fire alarm, security, and DCIM infrastructure. Champion a safety-first culture across all project sites and team operations. Validate quality control processes — including inspections, testing protocols, and pre-functional checklists — to support the internal CSI engineering team's commissioning and turnover requirements.
6. Client Relations & Business Development Support Serve as the senior client-facing representative for low-voltage CSI construction execution on major data center programs. Support business development pursuits by contributing technical narratives, construction strategies, and win themes for design-build opportunities. Build and strengthen relationships with key trade contractors, controls equipment suppliers, and national low-voltage partners.

What You'll Bring Experience & Expertise

• 15+ years of progressive construction experience, with a significant focus on low-voltage systems, controls systems integration, or building technology in mission-critical or data center environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing a portfolio of concurrent projects and leading construction teams (Project Managers and Superintendents) in a design-build delivery model.
• Track record of successfully delivering projects valued from $5M to $50M in low-voltage CSI scope complexity.
• Strong understanding of low-voltage systems commonly deployed in data centers, including but not limited to: BMS/BAS, EPMS, structured cabling, fire alarm, security/access control, and DCIM.
• Working knowledge of trade partner procurement, subcontract management, and commercial administration.
• Experience coordinating with design and engineering teams in an integrated delivery environment; ability to translate design intent into executable field plans.
• Education Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related technical field (preferred).

Technical & Professional Skills

• Proficiency in construction technology platforms such as Procore, Bluebeam, and scheduling tools (MS Project / P6).
• Familiarity with relevant codes and standards applicable to low-voltage systems in mission-critical environments (BICSI, NFPA, NEC).
• Strong commercial acumen — budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and change management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to interface with executive-level clients and internal leadership.

Other Requirements

• Ability to travel for project execution, client engagements, and site oversight across the U.S.
• Ability to conduct thorough jobsite walks including ladders, equipment platforms, and multi-level structures.

Our Commitment to You

You will join an organization grounded in mutual respect, integrity, and a deep commitment to the growth of our people. As a Project Executive, you will benefit from mentorship, individualized development plans, and a flexible, entrepreneurial model that empowers you to shape your own career path. If you're ready to lead some of the most complex low-voltage controls installations in the mission-critical industry — and help build the data centers that power the world — we'd love to talk.

Barry-Wehmiller is an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V This organization uses E-Verify. Applicants may be subject to pre-employment screening which may include drug screening, reference checks, employment verifications, background screening and/or skills assessments.

Company: Design Group Throughout Barry-Wehmiller, we hold ourselves to a unique measure of success: by the way we touch the lives of people. It’s that vision that drives us in creating world-class experiences and solutions for our customers and unites us around our common goal—to use the power of our business to build a better world.

Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodations during the interview process. Barry-Wehmiller is an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V

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