
Project Manager - Data Center Construction
Pontoon Beach, ILFull-timeSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Cumming Group is recruiting a Project Manager for a ground-up data center construction project. The role monitors general contractors to ensure work is completed correctly, on time, and to client standards. The Project Manager leads project teams, manages scope, budgets, communications, and conflict resolution, and works with clients to achieve project goals. A BS in a related field and 7+ years of relevant experience are preferred.
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This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/13811259\ Position Title: Project Manager - Data Center Construction\ \ Location: Pontoon Beach, IL\ \ Req Id: JR104007\ \ Time Type: Full time\ \ Description: At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 15 rankings in ENR. With over 70 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless! \ \ We are currently recruiting for a Project Manager to work on a ground up data center construction project. In this role, you will monitor the general contractors to ensure that the work is done correctly, on time, and to the client's standards. Come join our team! \ Essential Duties & Responsibilities: - Lead a project team, either a large project or multiple projects or a whole program. - Define technical scope of project. - Promote opportunities for repeat business and create highly favorable references through the effective coordination, administration, and communication of project tasks. - Review cost estimates. - Manage project level conflict resolution. - Maintain monthly project budgets for current and forecasted expenditures. - Facilitate and maintain communications with the client in addition to providing monthly/weekly/daily reports. - Achieve the clients objectives by successfully managing the clients project, goals, and objectives. - Other duties as assigned. - Attendance at work during normal business hours. \ Knowledge & Skills Required: - Manage and monitor team members' activity in alignment with organizational goals. - Delegate providing clear instructions and ongoing feedback. - Monitor metrics and course correct as necessary while holding self and others accountable. - Provide feedback to senior leaders and clearly communicate organizational direction to team members. - Build relationships with key internal resources (peers, direct reports, & senior leaders). - Create development opportunities and plan for direct reports and teams; provide ongoing feedback. - Exercise creativity and resourcefulness in independently managing the project effectively in a compressed timeframe. - Ability to distinguish between cause and effect of problems. - Actively listen and communicate effectively, clearly, unambiguously, and completely in both written and oral formats. \ Preferred Education and Experience: Education: BS in Construction Management, Engineering, QS, Architecture, or related field Experience: 7+ years of experience in Project Management, engineering, or construction management Preferred Certification: CCM, PMP, PE, AIA, LEED \ *Cumming Group is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunity in its personnel policies and practices. It is Cumming Groups policy to recruit, hire, train and promote Team Members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, marital status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, sexual preference, sexual orientation, gender (including gender expression and gender identity), pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions, including breastfeeding), military service, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical disability, mental disability, veteran statu\ \ \ \ Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.\ \ * I287795333
How this job compares
Set against the 23,467 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Illinois median$105–162K/yr550 salary ranges
- Illinois median$50–64/hr36 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 673 open Project Manager jobs in Illinois and 23,467 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (20,330 postings).
- Education
- 12,998 of the 23,467 open Project Manager jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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