
Data Center Market Leader / Senior Project Manager
Miamisburg, OHJob$110–150K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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LJB Inc. is seeking a Data Center Market Leader and Senior Project Manager for its Dayton, Ohio office. The role develops the firm’s data center market strategy, builds strategic client relationships, and leads teams delivering profitable projects. It combines market development, project oversight, technical leadership, and mentorship for data center and mission-critical clients. The stated annual compensation is $110,000–$150,000, based on experience, certifications, and regional market standards.
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Description Join a Leading National Engineering Firm with a Legacy of Innovation Founded in 1966, LJB Inc. is a national engineering firm specializing in civil and structural engineering, with additional expertise in geospatial, safety, and environmental services. Our broad technical capabilities and diverse client base have allowed us to deliver successful projects in all 50 states and several countries. Within our Buildings Practice, LJB's structural engineers are widely recognized for their cost-efficient, high-performance designs, particularly in tilt-up construction and steel detailing. Our team is the trusted structural partner for architects, general contractors, and building owners across North America. We are currently seeking a Data Center Marker Leader in our Dayton, Ohio office. The Data Center Market Leader and Senior Project Manager develops and executes the firm's strategy for growing its data center portfolio while leading teams that deliver profitable, high- quality projects. This role combines market development, strategic client leadership, project oversight, and mentorship of teammates serving data center and mission-critical clients. Annual Compensation: $110,000 - $150,000 based upon experience, certifications, and regional market standards. Benefit Information: Here DATA CENTER MARKET LEADER / SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: * Develop and execute a strategic plan to expand the firm's presence in the data center market * Partner with business development executives to identify opportunities, cultivate prospective clients, and secure new work that generates revenue growth. * Represent the firm at industry conferences, networking events, client meetings, and business development functions. * Monitor market trends, industry investment, competitor activity, and emerging opportunities to support strategic growth. * Assume client manager responsibility for strategic clients * Lead proposal development, including scope of work, terms, schedule, fees, limitations, and other issues within corporate policy guidelines * Mentor project manager teammates executing work in market * Establish project scope, schedules, budgets, staffing plans, and deliverables in coordination with clients and internal teams. * Manage multiple concurrent projects, ensuring delivery within established budgets, schedules, and quality expectations. * Coordinate structural engineering activities with architectural, civil, geotechnical, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and other design disciplines. * Ensure that project teams follow the firm's quality assurance procedures and satisfy applicable regulatory, code, permitting, and professional practice requirements. * Work closely with owners, developers, architects, general contractors, construction managers, and specialty contractors to resolve design and construction challenges. * Oversee project financial performance, including fee management, resource allocation, project profitability, and change management. * Provide technical oversight for structural systems supporting data centers and other mission-critical facilities. * Travel within the United States as needed for client meetings, project delivery, industry events, and visits to project sites and client locations. DATA CENTER MARKET LEADER / SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER ESSENTIAL CREDENTIALS: Required Qualifications:
How this job compares
Set against the 767 open Senior Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$110–150K/yr
- US median$138–198K/yr614 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $130K, is 23% below the US median midpoint ($168K) — in the lowest quarter of Senior Project Manager salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 28 open Senior Project Manager jobs in Ohio and 767 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Ohio
- CDM Smith10 open
- AECOM2 open
- Kimley-Horn2 open
- Experience
- Senior Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 13 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 10 to 13 years (753 postings).
- Education
- 662 of the 767 open Senior Project Manager jobs (86%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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