Senior Project Manager - Mission Critical

Job Details

Location:

Austin - Pflugerville, TX 78660

Position Type:
Full Time

Category:
Management

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The Senior Project Manager will help construct and lead a team, and serve as the key contact for clients on all work within their portfolio. They have extensive experience delivering complex commercial construction projects, including mission‑critical, hyperscale data center, industrial, and other technically challenging facilities. The role requires balancing technical, financial, operational, and client priorities while maintaining exceptional project execution in fast‑paced, high‑growth environments.

• Maintain and enhance contractor relationships to build new business and be involved in new market development.
• Full review of the contract with the Project Manager before submitting it to the Senior Leadership Team for sign‑off.
• Attend pre‑construction meetings to understand complete scope while ensuring safety, quality, and production setup are met.
• Review scope of work and identify any potential risks or scope gaps from estimate to award.
• Maintain strong knowledge of projects and exceed set standards for the portfolio.
• Lead preconstruction planning efforts including procurement strategy, subcontractor evaluation, vendor selection, constructability reviews, and long‑lead material planning.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across design, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operations, field leadership, and project stakeholders to ensure alignment throughout the project lifecycle.
• Give advice and direction as needed to the Project Team.
• Project manpower needs to leverage resources, utilizing the information for additional and future projects.
• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of complex commercial and mission‑critical construction projects, ensuring coordination across preconstruction, procurement, construction, commissioning, and project closeout.
• Develop and manage integrated project schedules while monitoring performance against key milestones and implementing recovery plans when necessary.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams including design, engineering, procurement, operations, commissioning partners, general contractors, owners, equipment vendors, consultants, and utility providers.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks with a particular focus on critical‑path activities, schedule impacts, procurement challenges, and long‑lead equipment.
• Lead project reviews, lessons learned, and continuous improvement initiatives to improve future project delivery.
• Develop and maintain integrated master schedules encompassing design, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and operational readiness while proactively managing schedule risks and recovery planning.

• Involved in strategic planning to ensure project profitability—communicating with the CFO and Executive Team about financial implications, needs, and managing cash flow for success.
• Review WIP and billing.
• Own project budgets, cost forecasting, financial reporting, cash flow management, contingency planning, change control, and project financial closeout throughout the project lifecycle.

• Participate in the development and execution of Berg’s strategic and business plan including achievement of key objectives.
• Establish and develop relationships with employees, executive leadership, clients, contractors, consultants, commissioning partners, equipment vendors, and external stakeholders.
• Support and continuously improve Berg’s high‑performance culture.
• Provide visionary leadership for new ideas and approaches and humbly welcome ideas to innovate and improve Berg from all levels of the organization.
• Drive executive‑level reporting, project governance, stakeholder communication, and strategic decision‑making throughout all phases of project execution.

• Develop trust and maintain a collaborative and supportive leadership presence with the Project Management team.
• Participate in and support recruitment, hiring, onboarding efforts to develop an…