Project Manager - Electrical

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, inspection records, meeting notes, schedules, daily reports, photographs, and correspondence.
• Maintain accurate as-built information and complete warranties, test reports, operation and maintenance materials, training records, and closeout packages.
• Provide timely project updates and immediately report incidents, near misses, damage, delays, defects, or changed conditions.

7. Team Development & Additional Responsibilities

• Set clear expectations for electrical personnel, support training and apprenticeship development, and address performance or conduct concerns promptly.
• Support workload planning, hiring needs, process improvement, and consistent electrical standards across projects.
• Perform other related duties reasonably assigned based on project and business needs.

Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing at times. The employee may be required to lift and move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.