Construction Project Executive - Mechanical

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a national strategy for mechanical construction services supporting hyperscale, colocation, AI, cloud, semiconductor, and mission-critical data center customers.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to identify market opportunities, expand customer relationships, and drive profitable growth.
• Establish national standards, best practices, and operational procedures for mechanical construction execution across all regions.
• Serve as an internal subject matter expert on data center mechanical infrastructure, emerging cooling technologies, and mission-critical construction trends.
• Support strategic planning initiatives focused on long-term customer partnerships and operational scalability.
• Serve as Executive Sponsor for key hyperscale and colocation customer accounts.
• Develop and maintain executive-level relationships with customer construction, engineering, design, operations, and procurement leaders.
• Lead executive business reviews, project performance meetings, and strategic account planning sessions.
• Ensure customer expectations are aligned with project execution and operational performance.
• Drive customer satisfaction, repeat business opportunities, and long-term strategic partnerships.
• Provide executive oversight of large-scale mechanical construction projects and national data center programs.
• Ensure successful execution of projects involving mission-critical cooling and mechanical infrastructure.
• Review project schedules, financial performance, manpower plans, procurement status, commissioning readiness, and risk assessments.
• Support project teams in resolving complex technical, operational, contractual, and staffing challenges.
• Ensure consistency in project delivery, reporting, forecasting, and governance processes across all regions.
• Maintain accountability for portfolio revenue, profitability, cash flow, and overall operational performance.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency and increase profitability.
• Participate in contract negotiations, change order strategy development, claims resolution, and risk mitigation efforts.
• Support annual budgeting, forecasting, and strategic business planning activities.
• Standardize best practices for mechanical construction execution across all data center projects.
• Promote innovative construction methods, prefabrication, modularization, digital construction tools, and lean project delivery practices.
• Improve project execution through continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Ensure coordination between engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, commissioning, and customer teams.
• Drive consistency in startup, commissioning, and owner turnover processes.
• Build and develop a high-performing national team of Project Executives, Operations Directors, Program Managers, Project Managers, and Construction Managers.
• Lead succession planning and leadership development initiatives.
• Recruit and retain top-tier mission-critical mechanical construction talent.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer-focused execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Construction Management, Engineering Technology, Business Administration, or related field preferred.
• Advanced leadership training or graduate education is a plus.
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in mechanical construction.
• 10+ years managing mission-critical, data center, industrial, healthcare, semiconductor, or advanced technology projects.
• Demonstrated success supporting hyperscale and colocation data center customers.
• Experience managing projects exceeding $100M individually and portfolios exceeding $1B annually preferred.
• Strong Understanding Of Mission-Critical Cooling Systems
• Chilled water systems
• Air-cooled and water-cooled cooling plants
• Cooling towers
• Chillers
• Pumps and hydronic systems
• Heat rejection systems
• Direct-to-chip liquid cooling
• Rear-door heat exchangers
• Immersion cooling technologies
• Thermal energy storage systems
• Mechanical Infrastructure HVAC systems
• CRAH and CRAC units
• Dedicated outdoor air systems (DOAS)
• Computer room environmental controls
• Industrial ventilation systems
• Refrigeration systems
• Fuel oil systems
• Natural gas systems
• Mechanical piping systems
• Process piping systems
• Data Center Construction
• Prefabricated mechanical skids
• Modular mechanical plants
• Building Information Modeling (BIM)
• Virtual Design and Construction (VDC)
• Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)
• Startup and commissioning processes
• Integrated Systems Testing (IST)
• Operational readiness and turnover