Construction Project Executive - Electrical

Position Summary

The National Construction Project Executive – Data Center Electrical is a senior executive leader responsible for the successful delivery, operational excellence, and strategic growth of electrical construction services for hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, and mission-critical data center customers nationwide. This role provides executive oversight for a portfolio of large-scale electrical construction projects ranging from greenfield hyperscale campuses to complex live-site expansions and upgrades. The Project Executive serves as the primary executive relationship manager for key data center clients, ensuring exceptional project execution, predictable delivery, operational scalability, and long-term customer partnerships. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in electrical construction and mission-critical environments with proven experience leading large project portfolios, developing high-performing teams, and driving profitable growth within the data center market.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Market Growth

• Develop and execute a national strategy for electrical construction services focused on hyperscale, colocation, cloud, AI, semiconductor, and mission-critical data center clients.
• Partner with executive leadership to identify growth opportunities, market expansion initiatives, and strategic customer pursuits.
• Establish and maintain national standards for data center project delivery, resource planning, quality assurance, and operational excellence.
• Serve as a thought leader within the organization on emerging technologies, power infrastructure trends, and mission-critical construction practices.

Customer Executive Leadership

• Act as the executive sponsor for strategic data center customers and programs.
• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders at hyperscale and colocation providers, including construction, engineering, design, operations, and procurement executives.
• Participate in executive business reviews, customer strategy meetings, and national account planning sessions.
• Lead efforts to increase customer satisfaction, repeat business, and long-term strategic partnerships.
• Ensure alignment between customer expectations and project execution across all regions.

Project & Program Oversight

• Provide executive oversight of large-scale electrical construction projects and national data center programs.
• Ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with customer quality standards.
• Review project performance metrics, schedules, productivity reports, financial forecasts, risk assessments, and resource plans.
• Support project teams in resolving complex operational, contractual, technical, and staffing challenges.
• Drive consistency in project controls, reporting, commissioning readiness, and turnover processes.

Financial Performance

• Maintain accountability for portfolio revenue, profitability, cash flow, and operational performance.
• Review project forecasts, work-in-progress reports, labor productivity metrics, and margin performance.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency and increase profitability while maintaining customer satisfaction.
• Participate in major contract negotiations, change order strategy, claims management, and dispute resolution.
• Support annual business planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.

Operational Excellence

• Standardize best practices for electrical construction execution across all data center projects.
• Promote innovation in prefabrication, modular construction, digital construction technologies, and commissioning processes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, schedule reliability, and productivity.
• Ensure alignment between preconstruction, procurement, engineering, operations, commissioning, and customer teams.

Safety, Quality & Risk Management

• Champion a zero-incident safety culture across all projects and operations.
• Ensure compliance with customer, company, and regulatory safety requirements.
• Lead executive-level safety reviews and operational risk assessments.
• Promote quality assurance programs designed to meet stringent mission-critical facility requirements.
• Ensure project teams maintain readiness for commissioning, energization, and customer turnover milestones.

Talent Development & Organizational Leadership

• Build and mentor a high-performing national team of Project Executives, Operations Managers, Program Managers, and Project Managers.
• Support succession planning and leadership development initiatives.
• Recruit and retain top talent with mission-critical and data center construction experience.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer focus.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field preferred.
• Advanced degree or executive leadership training is a plus.

Experience

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in electrical construction.
• 10+ years managing large-scale mission-critical, data center, industrial, or complex infrastructure projects.
• Proven experience overseeing multi-site or national project portfolios.
• Demonstrated success managing relationships with hyperscale and colocation data center customers.
• Experience supporting projects exceeding $100M individually and managing portfolios exceeding $1B annually preferred.

Technical Expertise

Strong understanding of:

• Medium- and low-voltage electrical systems
• Mission-critical power infrastructure
• Utility coordination and energization
• Generator systems
• UPS systems
• Switchgear and power distribution
• Busway systems
• Grounding and bonding
• Fiber and structured cabling infrastructure
• Commissioning and integrated systems testing
• Data center construction delivery methodologies
• BIM/VDC and prefabrication strategies

IES is a national provider of industrial products and infrastructure services to a variety of end markets, including electrical, mechanical and communications contracting solutions for the commercial, industrial, residential and renewable energy markets. IES is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol IESC. As of the end of IES’s 2025 fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, IES produced over $3.3 billion in revenue and employed over 10,200 employees at over 174 domestic locations across the United States.

Our commitment to our employees is reflected by our actions:

• Safety is Priority One – and our record shows it
• Competitive Pay
• Company 401K plan with Employer Contribution Match
• Company Paid Time Off
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Choice of Medical Coverage including Prescription and Short Term Disability Plans
• Choice of Dental and Vision Coverage
• Optional Long-term Disability, Critical Illness, Accident, Legal and Pet Coverage
• Auto and Home Insurance Discount Programs

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IES is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. IES provides reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Applicants who need accommodation in the job application process should contact the IES corporate office at (713) 860-1500 or any IES office to request assistance.

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