Job Description

Healthcare & Data Center Project Manager / Senior Project Manager Construction Leadership Opportunity – Chicago, IL

Healthcare | Data Center | Complex Commercial Construction

A highly established, family-owned construction organization with more than a century of construction and restoration experience is expanding its project management team in the Chicago market.

The company has built a reputation around complex construction, technically demanding renovations, and specialized project environments, with expertise spanning healthcare, life sciences, commercial, industrial, hospitality, government, education, and other institutional markets. Berglund Co.

This search is specifically focused on experienced Project Managers and Senior Project Managers with backgrounds in healthcare and/or data center construction.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

This isn't a typical commercial PM position.

The projects involve environments where phasing, coordination, safety, logistics, quality control, and communication with multiple stakeholders are critical.

Healthcare experience may include:

• Hospitals
• Medical facilities
• Behavioral health
• Healthcare renovations
• Occupied healthcare environments
• Complex MEP coordination

Data center experience may include:

• Mission-critical facilities
• High-tech infrastructure
• Large-scale MEP systems
• Critical power/cooling systems
• Fast-track construction
• Highly coordinated subcontractor environments

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from preconstruction through closeout
• Develop and maintain project schedules
• Manage budgets, contracts, buyout, and change orders
• Coordinate owners, architects, engineers, subcontractors, and vendors
• Lead project meetings
• Monitor project quality and safety
• Identify and resolve project risks
• Maintain strong owner/client relationships
• Provide leadership to project engineers, APMs, and project teams
• Coordinate complicated construction activities in active/occupied environments when applicable

Ideal Candidate

The client is looking for candidates who have:

• 7+ years of commercial construction experience
• Project management experience with a GC
• Healthcare construction experience and/or data center/mission-critical experience
• Experience managing complex projects
• Strong understanding of contracts, scheduling, budgeting, and project controls
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Ability to work directly with owners and senior stakeholders

Compensation

Project Manager: $125,000–$155,000 base

Senior Project Manager: $150,000–$190,000+ base

Bonus and benefits may be available depending on level and experience.

Current Chicago construction PM salary data places the broader market around $115K–$123K, while specialized and more experienced PMs can command materially higher compensation. Healthcare construction is also among the higher-paying construction PM sectors in current compensation data. Salary

Location: Chicago, ILEmployment Type: Full-TimeIndustry: Healthcare / Mission Critical / Commercial Construction

Interested?

If your background includes healthcare, data center, or other highly complex commercial construction, I'd like to have a confidential conversation with you.

Brandon HillSearch Consultant | GPAC – ConstructionCall/Text: (743) 223-5229

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations. GPAC (Growing People and Companies) is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States since 1990. We are extremely competitive, client-focused and realize that our value is in our ability to deliver the right solutions at the right time.