Project Manager - Joint Venture

Summary:

The Project Manager (JV) is responsible for leading and delivering large-scale heavy civil and mission-critical infrastructure projects executed through a Joint Venture partnership. This includes transportation, water, and energy infrastructure as well as site development and enabling works for hyperscale data centers. This role oversees all aspects of project execution, including coordination between JV partners, contract compliance, cost control, scheduling, risk management, and stakeholder communication. The Project Manager ensures alignment with JV agreements while driving project performance, safety, quality, and accelerated delivery objectives typical of data center and other large projects. This role would ideally sit in Atlanta, but we are open to operating remotely out of another large Southern Metro area.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Project Leadership & Execution

• Leads and supports business development efforts, including pursuit strategy, proposal preparation, cost estimating, and preconstruction planning to position projects for successful execution
• Lead planning and execution of heavy civil and site infrastructure projects, including highways, bridges, utilities, grading, and large-scale data center campus development
• Deliver projects safely, on time, and within budget
• Develop and manage detailed execution plans that integrate civil, structural, and utility scopes supporting mission-critical facilities

Joint Venture Coordination

• Serve as the primary coordination point between JV partners, ensuring alignment on scope, schedule, cost, and governance
• Navigate differing partner systems, processes, and cultures to maintain unified project delivery
• Support JV governance processes, including executive reporting, approvals, and financial structures

Contract & Commercial Management

• Manage complex contracts, including design-build and EPC delivery models common in both heavy civil and data center development
• Oversee change management, claims, and dispute resolution
• Coordinate procurement and subcontracting strategies, including long-lead materials and equipment impacting critical path schedules

Financial Oversight

• Monitor project financial performance, including cost forecasting, productivity tracking, and cash flow
• Ensure consistent cost reporting across JV entities
• Manage budgets associated with large-scale earthwork, utilities, and infrastructure tied to mission-critical facilities

Risk Management

• Identify and mitigate risks related to accelerated schedules, permitting, utility coordination, and evolving client requirements
• Address risks associated with concurrent construction activities and overlapping trades typical in data center projects
• Ensure risk allocation aligns with JV and client contract terms

Stakeholder & Client Relations

• Act as primary interface with owners, including public agencies and private developers
• Coordinate with utilities and third-party stakeholders
• Maintain clear communication on schedule milestones, particularly for applicable phased turnover

Safety & Quality

• Enforce strict safety standards across multi-employer job sites
• Ensure quality control for civil works supporting high-reliability facilities, including foundations, underground utilities, and site systems

Team Leadership

• Lead cross-functional teams from multiple JV partners, including field operations, engineering, and project controls
• Foster collaboration in high-pressure, schedule-driven environments
• Build teams capable of supporting rapid mobilization and scaling typical of large projects

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, construction management, or related field is preferred; or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience preferred
• 10+ years of experience in heavy civil construction or large-scale site development
• Experience delivering infrastructure for mission-critical or industrial facilities (data centers, power, manufacturing) preferred
• Prior joint venture experience strongly preferred
• Proven success in fast-track or schedule-driven environments
• Strong leadership in complex, multi-partner environments
• Deep understanding of civil or site development, utilities, and infrastructure coordination
• Experience managing compressed schedules and phased project delivery
• Financial and commercial acumen across large, complex projects
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience supporting hyperscale data center developments or large campus-style projects
• Familiarity with utility coordination, high-capacity power infrastructure, and site readiness for mission-critical facilities
• Experience with mega-projects ($100M+)
• Background in claims management and dispute resolution
• Must be willing and able to travel 75% or more of the time to support business operations

Performance Standards 

• Safety Culture: Foster a safety culture by modeling and reinforcing expected jobsite behaviors
• Team Orientation: Communicate in an open, honest, and respectful manner 
• High Integrity: Acts with unyielding integrity and honesty in business transactions, promoting company policies and holding self and other employees accountable, keeping promises and commitments
• Ownership Mentality: Assumes responsibility and makes decisions within own level of authority; seeks approval when appropriate
• Good Judgment: Knows when to stand tough and when to be flexible. Sees the big picture and the ramifications of actions
• Versatility: Is open to change. Adjusts positively to changing work priorities and business conditions

Physical Requirements

• Sit, stand and walk continuously throughout the scheduled workday
• Stand, reach, drive and use fine motor skills frequently throughout the day
• Occasionally bend, kneel, squat and climb throughout the workday
• Lift up to 50 lbs. on occasion
• Work both indoors and outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions and may be in loud environments
• Must work in a manner that will not jeopardize the health and safety of him/herself or others
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

Language Skills

• Must be able to read and comprehend English

The above statements reflect the general details necessary to describe the principal functions of the occupation described and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the occupation.

All applicants must be willing to submit to a pre-employment drug test, background check, and motor vehicle record check. 

**Equal opportunity employer, including veterans, and individuals with disabilities**