Hyperscale Project Manager - Cedar Rapids

Overview

⚡ Advance Your Career with E2 Optics ⚡
 
Are you ready to elevate your career with an award-winning, Woman-Owned technology integrator that's leading the charge in the data center revolution? E2 Optics is one of the fastest-growing and most stable companies at the core of the tech industry—powering the infrastructure behind AI, cloud computing, and the innovations of tomorrow. 
 
At E2 Optics, you will work with cutting-edge systems in some of the most advanced environments in the world. We invest in your growth through hands-on experience, industry certifications, and leadership opportunities that put you in charge of teams and outcomes. Collaboration is in our DNA—we believe in lifting each other up, mentoring with purpose, and celebrating every win. 
 
If you’re looking to be part of something meaningful, fast-moving, and future-focused, your next opportunity is here. Join one of America’s largest and fastest-growing tech integrators and help us shape what’s next. 

Responsibilities

• Safety is E2 Optics' number one Core Value. All employees are expected to follow safe work practices, as well as adhere to company and client worksite safety policies and procedures. 
• Safety is our number one Core Value. Follow safe work practices and company and client worksite policies.
• Support and promote E2’s Core Values, fostering a safe, inclusive, and family-first work environment
• Own day-to-day execution of assigned hyperscale projects.
• Maintain accountability for safety performance, quality compliance, schedule adherence, cost control, and customer satisfaction.
• Manage complex scopes with concurrent workstreams across multiple buildings, zones, or phases.
• Ensure work is executed in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, BIM models, and hyperscale client standards.
• Understand that small execution gaps can scale rapidly due to manpower size and schedule compression.
• Develop, maintain, and actively manage:
  • Detailed project schedules and look-ahead plans
  • Cost tracking, earned value, and forecast accuracy
  • Risk registers, constraints, and mitigation plans
• Maintain clear, current project visibility suitable for hyperscale client scrutiny.
• Identify execution risks early and implement corrective actions before impacts scale.
• Ensure all change events are identified, documented, priced, and managed in accordance with contract and program requirements.
• Coordinate manpower, materials, access, sequencing, and logistics to support sustained production at scale.
• Partner closely with scheduling, cost control, logistics, QA/QC, safety, and engineering.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day interface with customer and GC representatives.
• Ensure crews are set up for success through proper planning, information flow, and resource alignment.
• Escalate risks, constraints, or deviations proactively before they impact critical milestones.
• Communicate status, risks, and recovery plans clearly and consistently.
• Ensure escalation is timely, structured, and solution oriented.
• Travel: The individual in this role should be able and willing to travel as required by E2 Optics.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required
• Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent experience considered.
• PMP preferred.
• 3 years of construction, telecommunications, or data center project management experience.
• Exposure to hyperscale or large-scale data center environments preferred.
• Experience managing schedule, cost, forecasting, and change.