Senior Construction Project Manager | Mission Critical Owner’s Representative

Tired of just working for clients instead of WITH clients? Looking for more ownership, autonomy, and impact?

NOW is your opportunity to make a smart move and join our Fun, Respectful, High-Performing Team at Himes Associates, Ltd.!

Himes has built long-standing relationships with both our Teammates AND our Clients by delivering exceptional work and treating great people like partners.

If you’re looking for challenging, high-profile work where your experience and judgment matter, Team Get S**t Done is looking for an experienced Senior Construction Project Manager to support the delivery of a major hyperscale data center campus in Abilene, Texas with a full-time onsite leadership role.

Who Should Apply?

YOU if you fit the Team GSD Qualities listed below:

• Experienced (or aspiring) Senior Project Managers with a track record delivering large-scale data center, mission-critical, electrical, MEP, or similarly complex construction projects.
• Data center professionals who understand the pace, technical complexity, coordination, and accountability required on a hyperscale construction site.
• Engineers, Construction Managers, and Project Managers ready to bring strong technical and construction expertise to an Owner’s Representative role.
• Professionals who are comfortable being fully embedded onsite and working directly alongside the client, contractors, vendors, and project teams.
• Strong client-facing leaders who communicate proactively, drive follow-through, and can independently manage priorities in a fast-moving construction environment.

A Team GSD Member:

• Brings an entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to innovate and adapt.
• Builds trust with clients and communicates confidently at every level.
• Is accountable. Owns it and delivers it.
• Respects teammates, partners, and clients.
• Anticipates problems, brings solutions, and knows when to escalate.
• Refuses to settle for “average.”

Why Work with Himes?

• Competitive compensation
• Long-standing client relationships and a growing mission critical portfolio
• Exciting, high-profile projects you will be proud of
• Autonomy without bureaucracy
• Direct access to Himes leadership and an experienced technical team
• The trust, resources, and support you need to excel
• Opportunity to continue growing with Himes as our data center and mission-critical portfolio expands

What To Expect in this Role

As an Owner’s Representative supporting the Tenant Fit-Out construction of a major hyperscale data center campus, you’ll work onsite as an integrated member of the Tenant’s project team, providing the project leadership, technical judgment, coordination, and follow-through required to keep complex construction moving.

• Own assigned project responsibilities across scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, documentation, and closeout, maintaining clear visibility into project status and upcoming priorities.
• Serve as a key point of coordination among client stakeholders, construction managers, general contractors, trade partners, design teams, vendors, commissioning teams, and other project partners.
• Oversee construction execution and proactively identify schedule, procurement, quality, coordination, constructability, and technical risks before they affect critical milestones.
• Coordinate complex MEP and mission-critical infrastructure, including interfaces among electrical, mechanical, controls, equipment, and supporting building systems.
• Track project schedules, critical milestones, constraints, long-lead equipment, dependencies, and contractor commitments, driving action when performance begins to slip.
• Support procurement, equipment delivery, installation, testing, commissioning, turnover, and closeout activities across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Drive critical project workflows including RFIs, submittals, change management, action items, issue resolution, project documentation, and stakeholder decisions.
• Maintain accurate and timely daily and weekly project reporting, clearly communicating progress, risks, decisions, outstanding actions, and upcoming activities.
• Participate in project and OAC meetings, drive assigned action items to closure, and ensure commitments are documented and followed through.
• Anticipate problems and bring forward clear options and recommendations rather than waiting for direction.
• Communicate proactively with the client and project leadership regarding schedule impacts, site issues, absences, changing conditions, or anything that could affect project execution.
• Represent the owner professionally onsite and build strong working relationships across the project team.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/BA in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or related technical field preferred; PMP, PE, CCM, or similar professional credentials are a plus.
• 10+ years of construction/project management experience, with significant responsibility for complex construction execution.
• Demonstrated data center or mission-critical construction experience required; hyperscale data center experience strongly preferred.
• Experience managing technically complex projects involving electrical, mechanical, controls, and mission-critical infrastructure systems.
• Strong understanding of construction sequencing, schedules, procurement, long-lead equipment, RFIs, submittals, change management, QA/QC, commissioning, and turnover.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage project priorities and maintain accountability across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including concise client reporting and the ability to escalate issues with clear recommendations.
• Proven ability to build effective relationships with owners, contractors, engineers, vendors, commissioning teams, and field personnel.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Excel, and construction/project management platforms; experience with scheduling and document-control systems is strongly preferred.
• Proactive, accountable, highly organized, and comfortable operating with significant autonomy in a fast-paced field environment.
• Ability to work onsite full-time in Abilene, Texas during traditional construction hours Monday-Friday, with rotating weekend assignments as required.