Senior Project Manager

STV is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager
- Mission Critical to join our Construction Management team in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. This position will provide senior-level project leadership for the planning, construction, and delivery of a large-scale, technically complex mission-critical/data center project.

• Lead and oversee all phases of project planning, construction, execution, commissioning, turnover, and closeout in accordance with established project requirements, policies, procedures, and client expectations.
• Manage day-to-day project activities and provide leadership to project managers, construction managers, engineers, project controls professionals, contractors, consultants, and other project personnel.
• Establish project execution strategies, priorities, milestones, and performance expectations to support successful delivery.
• Coordinate complex construction activities within an active, schedule-driven, mission-critical environment.
• Provide regular project updates and recommendations to senior project leadership and client stakeholders.

• Develop, review, and monitor master project schedules, construction sequencing, milestones, critical-path activities, and recovery plans.
• Monitor project progress against established baselines and proactively identify schedule risks, delays, and resource constraints.
• Coordinate contractor schedules and project interfaces to ensure alignment between civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, controls, commissioning, and other construction activities.
• Schedule and monitor labor and resource requirements against project budgets and spending performance.
• Oversee development, execution, forecasting, and updating of project labor plans.
• Partner with project controls teams to maintain accurate schedule, cost, progress, and performance reporting.

• Manage project budgets, forecasts, cash flow, commitments, expenditures, and overall cost performance.
• Review contractor pay applications, change orders, cost proposals, forecasts, and supporting documentation.
• Monitor actual and forecasted costs against approved budgets and identify potential cost impacts before they affect overall project performance.
• Support procurement, contract administration, change management, and commercial negotiations.
• Maintain fiscal responsibility while balancing project objectives, client expectations, schedule, quality, and operational requirements.

• Provide oversight of construction activities associated with complex mission-critical infrastructure and data center environments.
• Coordinate major building systems, including electrical distribution, mechanical systems, HVAC, controls, fire protection, life safety, and other critical infrastructure.
• Work closely with construction, engineering, commissioning, and operations teams to manage system installation, testing, startup, commissioning, and turnover.
• Identify and resolve constructability issues, design conflicts, field conditions, and contractor coordination challenges.
• Support phased turnover and commissioning activities while maintaining alignment with overall project milestones.

• Establish and maintain strong contractor-client communication and liaison networks to keep stakeholders informed of project planning, construction activities, schedule, budget, risks, and overall progress.
• Lead coordination meetings with contractors, consultants, design teams, project controls, commissioning teams, and client representatives.
• Manage contractor performance and ensure adherence to contractual requirements, project specifications, schedules, quality standards, and safety expectations.
• Facilitate timely resolution of RFIs, submittals, design issues, change events, field conflicts, and other project-related matters.
• Develop strong working relationships across multidisciplinary teams to maintain alignment and accountability.

• Champion a strong safety culture and ensure construction activities comply with project safety requirements and applicable regulations.
• Monitor project quality and coordinate QA/QC activities to ensure installations meet contract documents, specifications, codes, and client standards.
• Identify project risks related to scope, schedule, cost, procurement, labor, design, construction, commissioning, and turnover.
• Develop mitigation strategies and elevate critical issues to project and client leadership as appropriate.
• Support lessons learned, corrective actions, and continuous improvement throughout project execution.

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Typically 10+ years of progressively responsible construction/project management experience, including leadership of large, complex construction…