Senior Construction Manager, Division 27

Location / Schedule / Compensation

• Location: Baton Rouge, LA
• Worksite: Onsite
• Employment type: Full-time
• Compensation: $110,000 to $165,000 annually, depending on experience
• Bonus: 10% target bonus
• Project type: Mission-critical infrastructure and data center construction
• Focus area: Division 27, structured cabling, and low-voltage infrastructure

Position Overview

• We are hiring a Senior Construction Manager, Division 27 to lead field execution for structured cabling and low-voltage infrastructure systems on complex, mission-critical construction projects.
• This role owns Division 27 execution from startup and planning through installation, testing, closeout, and turnover.
• The Senior Construction Manager will lead self-perform crews, subcontractors, foremen, and field leadership teams to ensure work is delivered safely, efficiently, and to high-quality standards.
• This position requires strong field leadership, schedule discipline, installation sequencing expertise, and the ability to keep production moving across technically complex environments.
• The ideal candidate understands how Division 27 work integrates with electrical, security, network, and adjacent construction scopes.
• This role is focused on coordinated execution, room readiness, release-to-work planning, productivity, system readiness, and successful turnover.

What You Will Do

• Lead all Division 27 field operations across foremen, field leadership, self-perform crews, and subcontracted teams
• Own structured cabling and low-voltage infrastructure execution from planning through turnover
• Drive installation sequencing and workflow planning to support release dates, short-interval planning, and project milestones
• Coordinate closely with electrical, security, network, and related construction trades
• Ensure installation dependencies are understood, sequenced, and properly aligned
• Maintain field accountability for safety, quality, productivity, schedule, and turnover readiness
• Enforce installation standards, productivity expectations, material readiness requirements, and milestone commitments
• Manage daily field performance and production flow
• Identify and remove coordination issues, access challenges, sequencing conflicts, and production barriers
• Implement corrective actions when schedules, workforce productivity, or production goals are at risk
• Support startup planning, strike-team deployment, and execution standard rollout across project teams
• Lead subcontractor performance across manpower planning, sequencing, quality, installation progress, and closeout
• Oversee punch list resolution, testing validation, documentation completion, and turnover preparation
• Ensure field teams are executing work as part of an integrated system rather than isolated task completion
• Coach and mentor foremen and frontline leaders
• Build scalable field teams capable of independently executing work packages
• Stay actively engaged onsite to validate alignment between planning assumptions and actual field conditions
• Partner with project leadership, technical teams, field operations, and customers to deliver integrated infrastructure solutions

Systems and Infrastructure You Will Support

• Copper infrastructure
• Fiber infrastructure
• Horizontal cabling systems
• Backbone environments
• MDF rooms
• IDF rooms
• Network rooms
• Pathways
• Supports
• Cable management systems
• Integrated communication infrastructure
• Data center infrastructure
• Mission-critical infrastructure systems
• Division 27 communications systems
• Division 26 electrical interface work
• Division 28 security and technology interface work
• System readiness activities
• Punch list management
• Testing support
• Commissioning support
• Closeout and turnover processes

Required Experience

• 8 to 12+ years of experience in construction execution, field operations, or mission-critical infrastructure environments
• Experience managing Division 27, structured cabling, or low-voltage installation scopes
• Experience leading self-perform crews and subcontracted field operations
• Experience managing structured cabling systems, network environments, and low-voltage infrastructure
• Experience assessing workface conditions and driving execution discipline in the field
• Experience managing room readiness, release-to-work sequencing, and schedule-driven production environments
• Experience with subcontractor management, including manpower planning, sequencing control, quality oversight, and closeout management
• Experience coordinating across multiple trades in technically complex construction environments
• Experience removing field barriers and maintaining production flow
• Experience mentoring foremen, frontline leaders, or field supervisors
• Experience balancing schedule, productivity, quality, safety, and turnover objectives
• Experience managing work through release and turnover gates rather than solely through labor progress metrics

Preferred Experience

• Data center construction experience
• Mission-critical infrastructure project experience
• Large-scale infrastructure construction experience
• Familiarity with Division 26 and Division 28 interface work
• Experience supporting testing, commissioning, and turnover-driven environments
• Trade background in low-voltage, structured cabling, or electrical systems
• OSHA 30 certification

Required Skills

• Strong field leadership presence
• Strong understanding of structured cabling installation
• Strong understanding of network infrastructure environments
• Strong understanding of low-voltage infrastructure systems
• Strong installation sequencing skills
• Strong short-interval planning skills
• Strong subcontractor coordination skills
• Strong manpower planning and production control skills
• Strong quality oversight and closeout management skills
• Strong communication skills
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Strong planning and organizational discipline
• High attention to detail
• Ability to drive accountability across field teams and stakeholders
• Ability to coordinate across multiple trades and technical disciplines
• Ability to enforce installation standards and production expectations
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced, schedule-driven construction environments
• Ability to lead field teams through startup, execution, testing, punch list, and turnover

Work Environment

• Active construction site environment
• Mission-critical infrastructure project setting
• Regular standing, walking, climbing, bending, kneeling, and field movement required
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds as needed
• Close visual attention required when reviewing plans, specifications, field documentation, installation progress, and site conditions
• Daily coordination with:
• Project leadership
• Field leadership
• Foremen
• Self-perform crews
• Subcontractors
• Electrical teams
• Low-voltage teams
• Security and technology teams
• Commissioning and turnover teams
• Customer stakeholders

Why This Role

• Take ownership of critical infrastructure systems that directly affect project success
• Lead execution across complex, technically challenging, and mission-critical construction environments
• Drive field readiness, schedule discipline, installation quality, and turnover performance
• Partner with project leadership, technical teams, field operations, and customers to deliver integrated solutions
• Expand your leadership capabilities while helping shape scalable construction operations
• Build infrastructure that supports high-performance, connected environments

Benefits

• Eligible employees have access to a comprehensive benefits package
• Benefits are effective on the first day of the month coincident with or following date of hire
• Medical coverage through Cigna with four plan options
• Health Savings Account options available with eligible high deductible health plans
• Flexible Spending Account options
• Dental coverage through Lincoln Financial with two plan options
• Vision coverage through VSP
• Employee Assistance Program through Lincoln Financial
• Company-paid basic life and AD&D coverage
• Voluntary life and AD&D coverage
• Voluntary short-term disability coverage
• Voluntary long-term disability coverage
• Voluntary accident coverage
• Voluntary critical illness coverage
• Voluntary hospital indemnity coverage
• Pre-tax payroll deductions available for medical, dental, and vision premiums