Project Manager - Electrical Job Fort Lauderdale area,Florida USA,Engineering

Project Manager - Electrical Position Summary

The Electrical Project Manager provides licensed oversight for Hinterland Group's electrical operations and manages electrical projects from estimating and planning through installation, commissioning, and closeout. This position is responsible for code compliance, permitting, safety, quality, schedule, cost, documentation, client communication, and field execution within the authority of the applicable license and company requirements.

Experience

Minimum 5 years experience in electrical construction work or electrical project management.
Underground Electrical Distribution experience required.
Must be well-versed in water and wastewater electrical construction.
Prior motor control & PLC experience is a plus but not required.
Journeyman’s license is preferred but not required.

Duties & Responsibilities

1. Qualifying & Regulatory Oversight

Maintain the license, qualifier status, registrations, continuing education, and records required for assigned company electrical operations.
Provide responsible supervision and oversight of electrical work performed under the company's permits, contracts, and applicable license authority.
Confirm that installations, inspections, corrective work, and closeout activities comply with approved documents and applicable codes.
Coordinate with Authorities Having Jurisdiction, utilities, engineers, and inspectors on permits, interpretations, inspections, and approvals.

2. Estimating, Planning & Project Setup

Review plans, specifications, scopes, site conditions, and contract requirements for electrical projects.
Prepare or support estimates, labor and material plans, schedules, procurement strategies, bid clarifications, and proposals.
Establish project files, budgets, cost codes, submittal requirements, permit plans, inspection milestones, and closeout expectations.
Identify scope gaps, constructability concerns, long-lead items, and project risks before work begins.

3. Project Execution & Field Leadership

Direct and coordinate journeymen, apprentices, subcontractors, vendors, and supporting trades to meet project requirements.
Build and maintain project schedules, short-term work plans, labor forecasts, and inspection or outage sequencing.
Coordinate electrical work with civil, mechanical, controls, bypass, utility, startup, and commissioning activities.
Visit project sites as needed to verify progress, resolve field issues, support crews, and confirm readiness for inspections or turnover.

4. Procurement, Cost, & Change Management

Procure or approve electrical materials, equipment, rentals, and subcontracted services in accordance with project requirements and company controls.
Track committed costs, labor, production, material status, forecasts, invoices, and budget performance.
Prepare, document, negotiate, track change-order requests, time impacts, extra work, and client-directed changes.
Escalate cost, schedule, supply-chain, or scope risks with recommended corrective actions.

5. Safety, Quality & Commissioning

Ensure electrical teams apply lockout/tagout, arc-flash, energized-work, grounding, test-equipment, excavation, and confined-space controls.
Review work quality, test results, redlines, punch lists, and corrective actions before inspection, energization, or turnover.
Lead or support startup, functional testing, commissioning, owner training, and final acceptance activities.
Exercise stop-work authority when uncontrolled hazard, code concern, quality issue, or material change is identified.

6. Client Communication & Project Documentation

Serve as a primary electrical contact for clients, engineers, contractors, inspectors, utilities, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
Manage submittals, requests for information, permits,…