Senior Electrical Project Manager (Cedar Rapids)

Senior Electrical Project Manager

GavinHeath is partnering with a client in Cedar Rapids, IA, looking to add a Senior Electrical Project Manager to their team. The role is a Full-Time, on-site position supporting mission-critical and large-scale industrial electrical projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle execution of medium-voltage (12 35 kV) electrical projects from initiation through commissioning and energization.
• Oversee and mentor PMs, APMs, Superintendents, foremen, and subcontractors, ensuring safe, predictable, and high-quality project delivery.
• Own all core project management functions: RFIs, scheduling, change orders, budgets, submittals, logs, and direct field execution oversight.
• Maintain RFI logs, coordinate responses, and ensure timely distribution to engineering, field supervisors, and subcontractors.
• Build, price, and track change orders; maintain disciplined change-order logs using Accubid or equivalent tools.
• Manage submittal logs, expedite outstanding items, and ensure vendor documentation aligns with project requirements.
• Perform electrical take-offs, validate material quantities, and support procurement to maintain schedule alignment.
• Run weekly client meetings, internal coordination meetings, and daily huddles to ensure consistent communication and accountability.
• Onboard and manage subcontractors, ensuring compliance with site safety requirements and project specifications.
• Implement and maintain project controls across cost, schedule, productivity, and forecasting metrics.
• Ensure strict adherence to safety standards, NEC requirements, and zero-incident culture expectations.
• Identify risks, lead schedule recoveries, and drive corrective actions in partnership with field leadership and project controls teams.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 3 5 years of experience managing high-voltage electrical projects ( 480V; ideally 12 35 kV) for an electrical contractor.
• Proven leadership running hyperscale/colocation data center, EV, semiconductor, utility solar, or heavy-industrial electrical projects.
• Hands-on ownership of RFIs, change orders, scheduling, budgeting, and submittal management.
• Demonstrated field leadership of electricians/subcontractors; must be able to manage 30 electricians daily.
• Experience with Accubid, Procore, Primavera/MS Project, or comparable project controls environments.
• Ability to lead client meetings, manage subcontractor interfaces, and oversee labor plans.
• Strong understanding of MV distribution, transformers, switchgear, commissioning, and energization processes.
• Ability to work full-time on-site with consistent field presence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Electrical contractor background exclusively (owner-rep only backgrounds are not accepted unless the candidate personally managed field electrical execution).
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, or related field; PMP; OSHA 30.
• Spanish bilingual capability for workforce coordination.
• Experience with NFPA 70E related certifications (CEST, CESCP, CESW, CEI) not required; can be provided.

Hard Exclusions

• Pure design/owner-rep/cost-only backgrounds without field electrical oversight.
• Union constraints preventing 610 schedules or onsite commitment.
• Inability or unwillingness to maintain required on-site presence.