Project Manager

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

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex electrical construction projects within the mission-critical and data center space. This individual will play a central role from early project development and preconstruction through field execution, ensuring the commercial, technical, operational, and logistical pieces are aligned for successful delivery.

This is a highly collaborative, client-facing position for someone who is comfortable managing fast-paced projects, navigating evolving design and procurement requirements, and driving accountability across internal teams, trade partners, and project stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project planning and preconstruction efforts, establishing the scope, schedule, cost plan, staffing model, procurement approach, logistics strategy, and execution plan before mobilization.
• Review drawings, specifications, contracts, bid documents, and responsibility matrices to identify gaps, risk areas, assumptions, exclusions, and opportunities to improve the project approach.
• Direct the estimating process, including electrical takeoffs, labor assumptions, vendor and subcontractor pricing, general conditions, prefabrication, temporary infrastructure, BIM/VDC costs, escalation, and project-specific risk factors.
• Develop proposals, pricing packages, clarifications, exclusions, and commercial terms; lead pricing discussions and scope reviews with clients and project partners.
• Manage subcontractor and vendor sourcing, bid leveling, scope alignment, capacity reviews, negotiations, and selection.
• Build project-specific procurement plans, with particular focus on long-lead electrical equipment, material releases, vendor coordination, owner-furnished equipment, and milestone-driven purchasing.
• Partner with project controls and estimating teams to establish cost codes, work breakdown structures, schedules of values, labor-hour budgets, forecasting tools, reporting requirements, and billing plans.
• Review and help shape project schedules, identifying critical-path concerns, procurement constraints, resource needs, design interfaces, and sequencing risks.
• Lead constructability reviews and coordinate with BIM/VDC, design, prefab, and field teams to improve installation planning, work packaging, material kitting, and overall execution.
• Identify and present value-engineering opportunities that improve constructability, reduce cost, mitigate schedule risk, or enhance project outcomes.
• Support design-assist and coordination efforts by managing RFIs, design changes, technical decisions, and communication among owners, engineers, general contractors, trade partners, and internal teams.
• Establish project risk registers and tracking systems for action items, documentation, procurement, commercial exposure, schedule concerns, and readiness activities.
• Coordinate permitting, inspections, licensing, AHJ requirements, insurance, bonds, site access, and other pre-mobilization requirements.
• Ensure project plans address QA/QC, safety, commissioning, temporary utilities, site logistics, material storage, construction power, communications, and turnover requirements.
• Partner closely with construction and field leadership to ensure a thorough transition from preconstruction into execution.
• Serve as a primary client contact for project strategy, commercial matters, cost, schedule, scope, and key project decisions.

Desired Background

• Proven project management experience supporting large-scale electrical construction projects, ideally within data centers, mission-critical facilities, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, industrial, or similarly complex environments.
• Strong background in preconstruction, estimating, procurement, subcontractor management, and commercial project delivery.
• Ability to interpret construction documents, electrical drawings, specifications, contracts, schedules, and cost reports.
• Experience working in fast-track, design-build, or design-assist project environments.
• Familiarity with project controls, BIM/VDC coordination, prefabrication planning, commissioning requirements, and long-lead equipment management.
• Strong communication, negotiation, organization, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Comfortable leading cross-functional teams and making sound decisions in a high-growth, deadline-driven environment.