Power BI Manager

About the Role

The BI Manager is responsible for developing, maintaining, and governing our analytics, dashboards, and reporting solutions in support of project execution and leadership decision-making across Hays Electrical Services. This role transforms data from field, project, and corporate systems into clear, actionable insight on cost, schedule, productivity, and performance. The BI Manager owns prioritization and execution for the BI team, sets the quality bar for everything it ships, and manages the people who build it. Working across a matrix organization, this role partners closely with Operations, Project Controls, IT, Finance, and leadership to ensure data is accurate, consistent, and aligned with how work is delivered in the field. This is a hands-on management role, where you'll be accountable for the team's output being accurate, consistent, and maintainable.

Responsibilities

• Own the team's backlog — translate business needs and stakeholder requests into a prioritized set of work, sequence it, manage deadlines, and keep projects moving.
• Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards supporting project performance, executive reporting, and operational insight.
• Translate complex data into clear, usable information for project teams and leadership.
• Partner with IT and other system owners to integrate data from field and enterprise systems, including Databricks, Viewpoint (Vista ERP), and ProjectSight, into a consistent reporting layer.
• Establish and enforce data definitions, standards, and governance to ensure metrics are consistent across projects and divisions.
• Monitor data quality and resolve issues impacting reporting accuracy or usability.
• Support analysis of metrics such as cost performance, schedule trends, labor productivity, and early warning/risk indicators.
• Design scalable Power BI models, datasets, and visualizations.
• Enforce shared reporting standards, including calc groups, parameters, dimensions, Power BI theme, and git-based source control conventions.
• Manage report versioning, access controls, and support training and adoption of analytics tools.
• Own the quality control review gate for all deliverables, ensuring DAX correctness, adherence to standards, and performance.
• Manage the BI team's workload, provide day-to-day support, coaching, and hold the team accountable to deadlines and quality.
• Establish best practices for reporting cadence, prevent fragmentation into one-off dashboards, and continuously improve analytics capabilities.
• Support audits, executive reviews, and strategic initiatives with reliable data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in BI/analytics, project controls, data analytics, or related roles.
• Experience managing or leading a BI/analytics team, including workload management and quality review.
• Advanced, hands-on Power BI experience, including data modeling and DAX.
• Strong understanding of construction execution, project controls, and field data workflows.
• Experience working with construction and enterprise systems such as Viewpoint (Vista) or similar.
• Familiarity with Databricks or a similar cloud data warehouse as a reporting source.
• Experience with Tabular Editor and source-controlling BI projects in git.
• Ability to translate operational questions into meaningful analytics and prioritize competing requests.
• Strong communication skills for interacting with business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting multiple divisions or business units.
• Experience building or maintaining a shared/template semantic model used across multiple reports.
• Experience aligning analytics across Operations, Project Controls, and Finance.
• Background in construction, electrical contracting, or a similar project-based industry.

Why Join Hays Electrical Services?

This role offers exposure to executive leadership, strategic business initiatives, financial planning, and large-scale project pursuits in a collaborative, growth-oriented environment.