Contract Electrical Project Manager Jobs in Arizona

Position Summary

The Project Manager owns full project execution and leads communication, schedules, budgeting, coordination, and close-out. This includes managing budgets, schedules, resources, and ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. The role requires close coordination with customers, vendors, superintendents, safety teams, and project consultants while ensuring effective communication throughout the project lifecycle. This position requires no direct supervision.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage vendor and partner relationships to ensure performance and delivery.
• Lead communication with customers and manage satisfaction.
• Pursue new opportunities and expand existing accounts.
• Join estimating kickoffs and support partner selection, bid reviews, and proposal writing.
• Manage all stakeholder communication for the project.
• Lead project and customer meetings including internal and customer kick-offs, and project meetings; document meetings and action items in Procore.
• Prepare and communicate detailed project status reports, including delay notices.
• Manages coordination efforts across all project disciplines.
• Lead full project setup and ongoing project management in Procore —finalize directories, budgets, SOVs, schedules, workflows, and ensure all team members and partners are added correctly.
• Lead safety planning—create/review JHA and Safety Plan, verify training, certifications, and equipment readiness, and conduct project orientation.
• Develop and issue full WBS and detailed project procedures.
• Review submittals to ensure coordination and compliance with schedule and contract documents.
• Owns close-out documentation, inspection resolution, and final turnover, and leads customer close-out meetings.
• Own project budgeting, forecasting, and cost tracking.
• Track and report financial status and performance metrics.
• Review and approve weekly timesheets and invoices for accuracy, scope alignment, and cost coding; resolve discrepancies with vendors or field teams.
• Lead management of scope and cost changes.
• Negotiate and perform full material buy-out and logistics.
• Lead all site QC efforts and enforce specifications.
• Oversee daily quality inspections and documentation.
• Ensure project-wide safety compliance and accountability.
• Ensure all owner contracts are in place, uploaded, and understood; align project setup, billing, and deliverables with contract terms.
• Lead creation, submission, and approval of all change orders; ensure no subcontractor work begins without customer approval.
• Negotiate vendor and partner purchase orders independently.
• Lead project-level risk tracking and mitigation planning.
• Ensure code compliance and permit requirements are met.
• Assign and oversee team responsibilities.
• Build and maintain a collaborative project culture.
• Allocate resources and adjust assignments by workload.
• Provide clear feedback and performance coaching to team members.
• Performs other duties as needed to support projects, operations, and the department.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent education and experience in construction management, engineering or related field.
• 3-5 years’ experience in project management.

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams
• Advanced knowledge of estimating practices, construction materials, and cost management.
• Intermediate understanding of power distribution, low voltage system components, and general construction requirements.
• Advanced proficiency in using estimating software and tools.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Up to 40% travel to job sites.

Work Environment & Physical Demands

This job may work inside or outside with possible exposure to extreme hot or cold temperatures and weather elements in restricted or confined spaces, and on slippery or uneven surfaces. This job may have exposure to working on ladders, scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks, and other exposures typical of heavy construction. This job also operates in an office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

• Must be able to traverse and inspect all areas of jobsite in all types of weather; this may include walking, climbing reaching, bending crawling, standing, or stretching.
• The employee must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Move about on the feet regularly. Sit for extended periods of time.
• Requires the ability to sit and work at a computer for extended periods of time.
• May require travel.
• Exposure to characteristic construction site dangers.
• Talk and hear, ability to communicate with others both written and orally and by telephone.
• Possess good vision, normal or corrected. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision to discern color coded wires, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. 
• Possesses good hearing, normal or corrected.
• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment (hard hat, safety glasses, safety vest), as needed. 
• Must be able to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week, and overtime as required and night shifts, as needed. Must be on-call to address delays, emergencies, bad weather, and other issues at the jobsite.
• Must be able to work in the presence of customers and their representatives with little or no interference or disruption to the customer while maintaining a professional and courteous image.

CEC Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to attracting and retaining the best-qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.