Senior Project Manager

Description

• Ensure subcontractor management aligns with mission-critical expectations for quality and speed
• Ensure internal lessons-learned sessions are completed to drive improvement in future mission-critical projects
• Participate in relevant training, including technical, leadership, and professional development
• Perform PM I/PM II functions when needed for project success
• Oversee accurate quantity takeoffs for major scopes, including foundations, structure, and MEP-related pathways/supports
• Lead RFP responses and strategy for hyperscale/colocation/data center opportunities
• Lead design page-turns, focusing on technical requirements, redundancy (N, N+1, 2N), MEP integration, and constructability
• Promote additional McGough services, including self-perform, industrial, FM, and development
• Support and model the McGough Way
• Identify training needs and support continuous development in scheduling, MEP understanding, commissioning, and cost management
• Serve as Last Planner coach/champion in high-intensity schedule environments
• Understand and enforce contract requirements—particularly SLAs for delivery timelines and performance testing
• Ensure PM staff are effectively mentoring others and supporting company culture
• Attend company and project management meetings
• Review and understand project financial condition and profitability (PACE)
• Lead interview and proposal preparation, ensuring alignment with mission-critical client expectations
• Scope bid materials (concrete, rebar, structural components, etc.) with mission-critical sequencing in mind
• Setting the standard for leadership, accountability, safety, and excellence
• Identify and pursue early leads, supporting McGough’s presence in the mission-critical market
• Provide oversight of construction scheduling, ensuring clarity around path of criticality
• Drive preconstruction activities, including conceptual budgeting, MEP-heavy scoping, constructability review, and long-lead procurement strategy
• Participate in business development activities, client engagements, industry conferences, and mission-critical networking events
• Cultivate relationships with data center clients, cloud providers, owner’s reps, commissioning teams, and design partners
• Assess project staffing needs and ensure the right technical resources are deployed
• Management of project financials, including fee protection and cost certainty
• Mentoring and developing project management staff for future leadership roles
• Pursue new relationships with emerging data center clients and design firms
• Review and vet proposed subcontractors, focusing on mission-critical expertise and capacity
• Approve CPM schedules for self-perform scopes, ensuring alignment with MEP/commissioning milestones
• Championing company initiatives while modeling strong collaboration
• Lead implementation of PACE planning and production projections
• Coach and mentor project management staff, developing future leaders in the data center space
• Lead preconstruction schedule development, including MEP procurement timelines, energization milestones, and commissioning sequences
• Engage in company-sponsored events
• Support standard work practices and Lean initiatives
• Ensure cost history and benchmarking data are captured to support future data center pursuits
• Conduct lessons learned discussions with owners and internal teams, focusing on commissioning performance, system integration, and schedule predictability
• Building and sustaining relationships with owners, owner’s reps, design partners, mission-critical subcontractors, commissioning agents, and suppliers
• Review estimates prepared by project managers and estimating teams with emphasis on MEP, specialty systems, and long-lead equipment
• Final review and signoff on subcontracts
• Build and maintain relationships with clients, architects, engineers, consultants, commissioning firms, and subcontractors
• Ensure scope, schedule, and budget alignment throughout preconstruction
• Ensure strict adherence to McGough safety protocols, especially within energized and high-risk environments
• Perform regular jobsite walks with project teams to validate work quality, progress, safety, and readiness for commissioning
• Lead estimate presentations to owner/design teams, clearly communicating assumptions and risk analysis
• Promoting the McGough Way and our mission-critical delivery culture

Requirements

• Experience with commissioning, integrated testing, or mission-critical turnover processes
• Strong computer skills, including Excel and project management platforms
• Thorough, detail-oriented, and highly organized work style
• Experience with self-perform capabilities, ideally in concrete, structural, or MEP scopes
• Four-year degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or related field
• Estimating and field experience, particularly with MEP-heavy scopes
• Demonstrated ability to earn trust and build strong partnerships with owners, design teams, commissioning partners, and trade contractors
• Understand equipment, rentals, tools, and resource allocations required for hyperscale data center delivery
• Scheduling experience (e.g., CPM, pull planning, Last Planner)
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple demands in environments with aggressive schedule milestones
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, particularly in technical and fast-paced environments
• Client satisfaction across hyperscale, enterprise, and colocation operators
• 15+ years of relevant experience, including mission-critical, industrial, or large-scale commercial construction

Benefits

• Travel: Overnight travel may be required depending on project location and client program

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance