Project Executive, Mission Critical

Intermountain Electric (IME) brings decades of experience as a trusted leader in electrical contracting. Founded in 1946, we began as a small company in Denver, CO, and have since grown to be part of the largest specialty contractor in North America. Today, we work with owners and contractors nationwide, delivering complex construction solutions across various industries, including aviation, mission critical, entertainment, and healthcare. At IME, our people are our most valuable asset. We are committed to fostering a culture that prioritizes safety, quality, and professional growth. Joining IME is more than just finding a job—it's about building a career with opportunities to advance and make an organizational impact.

About the Role

For 80 years, Intermountain Electric, Inc. (IME) has been a trusted partner on the front lines of some of the most essential electrical projects, delivering safe, smart, and reliable electrical solutions through our people and partnerships, the IME Way. Through strategic planning, collaboration, and technical excellence, and guided by our values of Integrity, Safety, Ingenuity, Relationships, Craftsmanship, and Spark, we empower our professionals to innovate, support our field teams, and strengthen the partnerships that move our work forward. Join a team where your expertise fuels the systems that keep communities running!

The Project Executive plays a pivotal role in advancing our mission and living our values. This leader oversees multiple large-scale, mission-critical data center construction projects and project teams, aligns resources with strategic priorities, and ensures exceptional execution across safety, quality, financial performance, and client experience. This role is both strategic and hands-on—shaping processes, mentoring leaders, ensuring policy and safety compliance, and contributing to company-wide initiatives that strengthen our culture and performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead comprehensive reviews of project plans and contracts with Project Managers, including scope, objectives, deliverables, schedules, risk, and cost-to-complete for complex, mission-critical data center projects.
• Assign priorities, set clear expectations, and guide teams to maximize efficiency while upholding the highest standards of craftsmanship and safety.
• Anticipate and mitigate risk, resolve issues decisively, and adapt plans to minimize disruption.
• Walk job sites regularly with Project Managers to reinforce a visible commitment to safety, quality, and team engagement.
• Conduct structured monthly project reviews with each team, ensuring alignment on safety performance, change management, schedule adherence, financial health, and quality outcomes.
• Implement, model, and enforce quality control and safety procedures that reflect our uncompromising commitment to doing the work the right way.
• Partner with internal teams, clients, and trade partners to proactively address quality or safety concerns.
• Monitor construction progress through regular status meetings and reviews, ensuring projects remain aligned with expectations for schedule, administration, profitability, and field execution.
• Collaborate daily with Project Managers, vendors, and the purchasing team to confirm materials and logistics support uninterrupted, high-quality work.
• Provide executive-level oversight of project financials, ensuring manpower planning and overhead schedules accurately reflect current and future needs.
• Conduct financial, contractual, and legal risk analysis, developing mitigation strategies that protect the company and our partners.
• Evaluate cost and schedule impacts of design or scope changes and support Project Managers in communicating proactively and transparently with stakeholders.
• Provide steady leadership, vision, and mentorship to multiple project teams, cultivating trust, accountability, and engagement.
• Partner with Project Managers to address personnel, client, or project challenges—bringing ingenuity and sound judgment to complex situations.
• Develop future leaders through coaching, feedback, and targeted development opportunities that spark growth and excellence.
• Foster a culture where teams feel supported, challenged, and proud of their work.
• Serve as a trusted ambassador of the company’s brand, values, and expertise within the electrical contracting industry and data center markets.
• Build and sustain strong relationships with clients, trade partners, vendors, and internal stakeholders to support successful outcomes and future opportunities.
• Demonstrate the highest level of integrity and ethical leadership in all interactions, earning confidence through consistency and transparency.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Exceptional ability to perform due diligence, identify risk, and make sound, timely decisions.
• Unwavering integrity and ethical judgment with internal and external partners.
• Deep knowledge of building construction, materials, systems, market conditions, and trade practices.
• Highly effective communicator—able to clearly articulate expectations, influence outcomes, and translate complex information for diverse audiences.
• Advanced understanding of productivity tracking, scheduling, manpower planning, and workforce forecasting.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly to construction sites.

Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency with construction technology and tools, including Microsoft Office Suite, Procore, Bluebeam, and Accubid.
• Consistent success leading, mentoring, and developing diverse project teams at scale.
• Extensive experience delivering mission-critical or data center projects through planning, construction, change management, and commissioning.
• Established ability to build and sustain strong relationships with clients, subcontractors, and suppliers while staying informed of market trends.
• Thorough command of safety standards and best practices in electrical construction, with a track record of promoting a strong safety culture.

Education & Professional Background

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management or a related field, or an equivalent combination of advanced training and demonstrated expertise.
• A proven track record of progressive leadership advancement, with responsibility for end-to-end execution of complex, mission-critical electrical projects, encompassing safety, financial performance, scheduling, quality, client satisfaction, and team development.

Working Conditions

The majority of the time you will work in a typical office environment. Occasionally, you may travel to a construction job site. When on construction job sites you will encounter typical construction conditions including extreme temperatures, noise, dust, mud debris, welding, leading edge, trenching, and shoring, sometimes in a confined space. You may be required to visit multiple locations during any one day.

Benefits

IME provides an industry-leading comprehensive benefits package. Full-time employees are eligible to choose from a variety of healthcare coverage options, which become effective the first of the month after hire. In addition, employees are offered a substantial amount of PTO and are immediately eligible to make contributions to a generously matched and fully vested 401k.

Pay

Salary Range: $136,000 - $234,600. Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, skills relevant to the role, and internal equity.