What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Director - Mission Critical position at Big-D Construction?
Big-D Mission Critical is looking for a Project Director who will lead the successful delivery mission critical construction projects by providing strategic oversight and operational leadership across all phases of the project lifecycle.
This is a great opportunity to continue your career with a company that is on a mission to be the most sought-after company in the business. We seek and employ exceptional, hard-working, lifetime learners; we give them the tools to succeed when we find them. We have a culture of growth and achievement powered by innovation, supported by purpose and joy.
This position can be based in Salt Lake City, UT or in a traveling role.
Position Summary
This role ensures projects meet safety, financial, schedule, and quality objectives while maintaining strong client relationships and proactively managing risk. The Project Director serves as a key leader in advancing the organization’s mission critical market presence, guiding teams through complex technical and commercial challenges, and ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and industry best practices.
Experience/Training
This is a great opportunity to continue your career with a company that is on a mission to be the most sought-after company in the business. We seek and employ exceptional, hard-working, lifetime learners; we give them the tools to succeed when we find them. We have a culture of growth and achievement powered by innovation, supported by purpose and joy.
This position can be based in Salt Lake City, UT or in a traveling role.
Position Summary
This role ensures projects meet safety, financial, schedule, and quality objectives while maintaining strong client relationships and proactively managing risk. The Project Director serves as a key leader in advancing the organization’s mission critical market presence, guiding teams through complex technical and commercial challenges, and ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and industry best practices.
Experience/Training
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, architecture, or engineering or other related field required.
- 10 years in construction leadership
- Mission Critical or data center projects preferred
- Campus-scale programs preferred
- Leads commissioning strategy across multiple projects
- Oversees commissioning managers and commissioning agents
- Develop and implement commissioning plans, schedules, and procedures for construction projects with commissioning agents, user groups, subcontractors, and construction team members
- Coordinate with design and construction teams to review project requirements and ensure that commissioning activities are integrated into the master project schedule
- Manage the commissioning process for mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, building controls and other critical systems
- Manage pre-functional and functional testing of equipment and systems to verify proper installation and functionality
- Manage documentation of commissioning activities, test results, and equipment certifications
- Collaborate with user groups to ensure a smooth transition from construction to operation
- Solution-oriented troubleshooting
- Schedule and review factory witness testing
- Help coordinate and verify site acceptance verifications
- Ensure all testing L1-L5 is properly performed and documented
- Work with various manufactures, subcontractors, vendors and customer for equipment energizations and start-up
- Prepare for and manage materials necessary for commissioning process
- Write and track RFI’s and document general best practices and procedures
- Submit and track change orders
- Manage commissioning teams for each scope including mechanical, electrical, controls and CxA
- Develop comprehensive commissioning schedule and prepare for recovery
- Hold prep meetings, safety briefings and commissioning coordination meetings
- Review and approve testing scripts with CxA/customer and ensure feasibility with subcontractors
- Participate in job closeout process
- Monitors and enforces, along with project team, safety and OSHA standards to maintain safe working environment for all employees and site visitors
- Understands and can build a commissioning schedule
- Works with project team and subcontractors to ensure detailed commissioning schedule is met
- Proactively mitigate foreseen constraints, and assist in implementing plans to maintain or recover schedule
- Communicate unresolved constraints and impacts in a timely manner as well as plans to mitigate impacts
- Help ensure most up to date project documents are supplied to subcontractors and CxA
- Assist with redlining and updating drawings as you progress through commissioning
- Full understanding of commissioning process and able to provide quality control review of plans/specifications and documentation
- Responsible to provide technical and procedural commissioning direction to internal and external shareholders
- Understands equipment issue priorities and their effect on process, drives issue resolution
- Strong understanding of LOTO and energy management throughout testing evolutions
- 100% Medical & Dental premiums paid for
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with Employer Contribution
- PTO & Holidays
- 401k with match
- Life Insurance & Disability paid for
- Supplemental Benefits available
- Company Vehicle