Electrical Project Executive | Mission Critical
Salt Lake City, Utah | Full-time
Elite Executive Solutions is recruiting an Electrical Project Executive to lead large-scale electrical construction for data centers and other mission-critical facilities in the Salt Lake City market.
This role carries executive responsibility for project delivery, financial performance, client relationships, and team development. You’ll lead project managers and partner with superintendents and field leadership from preconstruction through energization, commissioning, and closeout.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide executive oversight of assigned electrical projects, setting priorities for staffing, schedule, procurement, and field execution.
- Own project financial performance, including budgets, cost-to-complete forecasts, work-in-progress reviews, cash flow, and margin. Act early when costs, scope, or schedules shift.
- Lead preconstruction handoffs and review scope, contracts, procurement plans, and major change orders. Resolve commercial and operational issues that require executive involvement.
- Coordinate procurement of long-lead equipment such as switchgear, transformers, generators, and UPS systems. Align equipment release and delivery dates with installation, energization, and turnover milestones.
- Work with superintendents and field leaders to plan labor, sequence work, and meet safety and quality expectations.
- Coordinate electrical startup, testing, and commissioning with owners, general contractors, vendors, and commissioning teams.
- Serve as an executive point of contact for clients and project partners. Communicate progress, risks, and recovery plans clearly.
- Coach project managers and senior project managers, strengthen project controls, and develop future leaders.
Required Qualifications
- Progressive leadership experience in electrical construction, with direct accountability for complex electrical scopes on data centers or other mission-critical projects.
- Experience as a Project Executive, Senior Electrical Project Manager, Electrical Operations Manager, or in a comparable leadership role with responsibility for project teams and financial outcomes.
- Demonstrated ownership of electrical construction budgets, forecasting, contracts, change management, and client relationships.
- Experience leading project managers and partnering with field leadership to resolve staffing, scheduling, and execution challenges.
- Working knowledge of critical power distribution, electrical equipment procurement, energization planning, and commissioning coordination.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience overseeing multiple project teams or concurrent phases of a large mission-critical program.
- Experience with phased turnover, integrated systems testing, or construction in an operating critical facility.
- Experience with design-build or design-assist delivery and early procurement of critical electrical equipment.
- A degree in construction management, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent electrical construction experience.
How to Apply
Submit your résumé to Elite Executive Solutions for confidential consideration. Include a brief overview of the largest mission-critical electrical scope you’ve led, its approximate contract value, the team you oversaw, and the phases you were responsible for.