Project Manager – SME – Data Center Construction – Omaha, NE / Cedar Rapids, IA

Location: Omaha, NE or Cedar Rapids, IA (full-time, on-site)

Compensation: Up to $180,000 + comprehensive benefits

The Opportunity

HeatherDaniel International (HDi), a construction recruitment specialist, is representing a leading global construction consultancy in its search for a senior Project Manager to act as a subject-matter expert (SME) on large-scale data centre construction programmes in Omaha, Nebraska and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

These are client-side advisory seats: you will represent the owner’s interests across delivery, bringing deep technical and programme knowledge to some of the most demanding mission-critical builds in the United States.

You will lead and coordinate delivery from pre-construction through to handover, advising project executives on design, constructability, sequencing and risk, and working closely with design teams, general contractors and commissioning agents.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery: Lead and coordinate the delivery of complex data centre construction projects from pre-construction through to handover.
• Advisory: Act as the technical subject-matter expert for the owner, advising project executives on design, constructability, sequencing and risk.
• Planning: Work closely with design teams, general contractors and commissioning agents to set project strategies, schedules and execution plans.
• Execution: Oversee procurement, site mobilisation, construction, commissioning and closeout.
• Reporting: Monitor and report on progress, risk and performance across programme, cost, quality and safety.
• Stakeholders: Chair meetings, manage stakeholder communication and keep clear documentation and decision tracking.

Requirements

• Experience: Proven project management on large-scale data centre, mission-critical or complex technical facility builds.
• Background: Consultancy, owner’s representative or general contractor project management; strong MEP and commissioning knowledge valued.
• Education: Degree in Construction Management, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Location: Based in, or willing to relocate to, Omaha, NE or Cedar Rapids, IA.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: Up to $180,000.
• Benefits: Comprehensive benefits.

Next Step

Interviews are being arranged now.

Why candidates choose HDi

We start with you, not with a requisition to fill. The people we place today are often the clients who hire us tomorrow. That only works if we treat the first conversation with care.

We know what a Quantity Surveyor is. We work in verticals – cost, project advisory, claims and dispute, built-environment leadership, and data center and mission-critical programmes – not as a generalist shop that learns your job from a Wikipedia page.

We are honest about salary and fit, even when the answer is no. We do not mailshot your curriculum vitae. We do not share it without your consent. That promise is written in full on our Candidate Charter.

We stay with you from the first call through interview, offer, resignation and start.

A major statewide consultancy in the United States, headquartered in New York, has hired us on a retainer.

We are working with a major international consultancy and have placed nearly forty people with them this year.

Our Candidate Charter: You are a person, not a placement. We are honest on salary and fit. Your curriculum vitae is never shared without your consent. We reply, even when there is no update. We stay with you through the whole move.

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