Senior Program Manager

🚧 Hiring: Utility Project Manager – Data Center Infrastructure

📍Milwaukee WI (Onsite)

🗓️ Start: ASAP | End: 3/12/2027 with possible extension

We are seeking an experienced Utility Project Manager to support large-scale data center infrastructure projects. This role will serve as the single point of contact for all utility-related scope, including transmission, distribution, and substations, supporting high-availability, mission-critical facilities.

🔑 Role Overview

The Utility Project Manager will lead scope, cost, schedule, quality, and safety for utility and substation work supporting data center developments. You will collaborate with internal energy teams, engineering, construction, utilities, and AHJs to ensure reliable, on-time energization of data center campuses.

📌 Key Responsibilities

Scope & Stakeholder Management

• Act as Single Point of Contact for all utility and substation scope (transmission, distribution, substations)
• Lead weekly design and site coordination meetings with Energy, Engineering, Construction, Utilities, and AHJs
• Coordinate utility design reviews, approvals, and signoffs using Adobe Sign / DocuSign
• Manage design coordination using latest AutoCAD and BIM 360
• Develop and maintain responsibility matrices and stakeholder contact lists
• Track and manage utility agreements, easements, deeds, and ROW documentation to meet project schedules

Cost Management

• Establish and manage budgets, estimates, contingencies, and not-to-exceed values
• Track purchase orders and report funding status at defined milestones
• Ensure scope validation prior to work execution
• Manage all change orders and scope changes through formal change management processes

Schedule Management

• Develop and publish detailed utility and substation schedules
• Identify critical path activities and maintain zero-float logic
• Track long-lead equipment (LLE) delivery and on-site readiness
• Provide mitigation plans, recovery schedules, and cost impacts for delays
• Publish weekly progress reports with photos and milestone updates

Quality Management

• Conduct weekly site walks and pre-construction walkthroughs
• Verify substation civil and electrical work meets utility and data center standards
• Identify, document, and escalate quality issues proactively

Safety Management

• Champion safety as a core value on all data center sites
• Develop and submit Energization Safety Plans
• Lead pre-energization coordination walks with all stakeholders
• Review and coordinate Methods of Procedure (MOPs)
• Verify downstream scope completion prior to energization

🛠️ Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of utility experience, including transmission, distribution, and substations
• Proven experience supporting data center or mission-critical infrastructure projects
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Project Management (preferred)
• Strong knowledge of easements, ROW, and utility agreements
• Solid construction project management fundamentals
• Highly organized, adaptable, and comfortable working in fast-paced, high-visibility environments

🚫 Disqualifier: Candidates without direct utility experience will not be considered.

🔝 Ideal Candidate Traits

• Experience working in hyperscale or campus-style data center environments
• Strong coordination skills across internal teams, utilities, and AHJs
• Ability to manage ambiguity, tight schedules, and multiple stakeholders

📩 Interested?

Apply now or reach out directly to learn more about this opportunity.

Dexian is a leading provider of staffing, IT, and workforce solutions with over 12,000 employees and 70 locations worldwide. As one of the largest IT staffing companies and the 2nd largest minority-owned staffing company in the U.S., Dexian was formed in 2023 through the merger of DISYS and Signature Consultants. Combining the best elements of its core companies, Dexian's platform connects talent, technology, and organizations to produce game-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.

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