Construction Manager

Hays Electrical Services•Houston, TX

48d•Onsite

About The Position

With over 19 years of experience and hundreds of millions of dollars in completed projects, Hays Electrical Services provides high-quality electrical construction services across commercial, hospitality, mission-critical, and other specialty markets. Hays approaches every project with a collaborative mindset, working closely with owners, general contractors, trade partners, and internal teams toward the common goal of safe, efficient, and successful project delivery. The Construction Manager is responsible for leading field execution across assigned projects from preconstruction and mobilization through commissioning and project closeout. This role is accountable for constructability, manpower planning, labor productivity, prefab execution, field coordination, schedule adherence, safety, quality, and overall operational performance. The Construction Manager serves as a key connection between project leadership and field operations, ensuring projects are properly planned, staffed, coordinated, and executed. This position works closely with Project Executives, Project Managers, Field Operations Managers, Superintendents, Project Controls, BIM/VDC, Prefab, Procurement, Safety, and Operational Assurance. A primary focus of this role is driving field productivity and operational consistency. The Construction Manager will proactively identify project risks, remove field constraints, maximize prefab utilization, monitor manpower and production, and implement recovery plans when projects are not performing to expectations.

Requirements

10+ years of electrical construction experience, with progressive field leadership responsibility.
Demonstrated experience managing large-scale commercial, industrial, mission-critical, or complex electrical construction projects.
Experience leading Superintendents, Foremen, and large field teams.
Strong understanding of electrical construction means, methods, systems, and installation sequencing.
Demonstrated knowledge of manpower planning, labor productivity, and production tracking.
Experience developing and executing short-term and long-term field plans.
Strong understanding of constructability planning and project scheduling.
Experience implementing prefab strategies.
Experience coordinating with Project Management, Project Controls, BIM/VDC, Procurement, Safety, and other operational teams.
Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Nice To Haves

Mission-critical/data center construction experience.
Large-scale commercial or industrial electrical construction experience.
Experience overseeing multiple projects or large, multi-phase projects.
Experience managing large electrical field organizations.
Experience with commissioning, energization, and project turnover.
Familiarity with Kojo, ProjectSight, OpenSpace, and Primavera P6.
Experience utilizing BIM/VDC and prefab as part of an integrated field execution strategy.

Responsibilities

Lead field operations and construction execution across assigned projects.
Ensure projects are appropriately staffed based on schedule, production targets, project phase, and workload.
Drive accountability throughout Field Operations Managers, Superintendents, and field leadership teams.
Participate in preconstruction planning, constructability reviews, project turnover, and mobilization.
Develop field execution strategies in partnership with Project Management and Operations.
Coordinate closely with BIM/VDC, Prefab, Procurement, Project Controls, and project leadership.
Drive prefab planning and utilization to reduce field labor requirements and improve productivity.
Review manpower forecasts and proactively identify upcoming labor requirements.
Monitor labor productivity, installed quantities, earned value, and overall production performance.
Coordinate with Project Controls and P6 scheduling teams to ensure field activities align with project milestones.
Identify schedule and production risks early and implement corrective or recovery plans.
Identify and remove constraints impacting field production.
Ensure field teams maintain company safety and quality standards.
Ensure proper utilization of Kojo, ProjectSight, OpenSpace, P6, and other required project management and field technology platforms.
Support material planning and ensure materials are available when required by the field.
Maintain consistent communication between field leadership and project management.
Mentor and develop Field Operations Managers, Superintendents, General Foremen, and other field leaders.
Promote consistent field processes, standards, and best practices across assigned projects.
Support commissioning, turnover, punch-list completion, and project closeout activities.