Project Executive - Owensboro, KY

DLB Associates is a premier engineering and consulting firm specializing in innovative, mission-critical solutions across hyperscale data centers, advanced infrastructure, and high-performance building systems. With over four decades of expertise, we partner with some of the world’s most influential companies to design and optimize environments that demand precision, scalability, and resilience.

Join us and be part of a team where your voice matters, your work makes an impact, and your growth is a shared priority.

Position Title: Project Executive

Position Location: Location varies by assignment.  75–100% travel across the U.S. unless assigned to an extended project.  Must be located near a major US airport.

Job Summary

The Project Executive (PX) serves as a senior organizational leader responsible for strategic oversight and delivery of large-scale mission-critical construction programs. Acting as the owner’s and/or contractor’s senior representative, this role provides executive leadership across multiple projects or major data center campus programs, ensuring alignment between client objectives, project execution, financial performance, and operational readiness.

The PX establishes the strategic framework for project delivery, ensuring that scope, schedule, budget, safety, and quality objectives are consistently achieved across complex construction environments. This role operates at the intersection of executive client engagement and field execution — setting direction for project teams, resolving escalated issues, and ensuring disciplined delivery across engineering, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness activities.

The PX is accountable for project financial outcomes, contract compliance, risk management, and client satisfaction. This role builds and leads high-performing teams, mentors senior project leaders, and influences organizational best practices for mission-critical construction delivery.

The Project Executive will be self-directed on day-to-day work and independently perform most responsibilities. Will lead teams and projects or tasks of complex scope and broader programs. Will coordinate activities of other personnel. Assists in the development of policies and procedures.

Essential Functions

Strategic Leadership & Organizational Impact

• Translate organizational and client strategy into executable construction delivery plans across large-scale or multi-site programs.

• Serve as an organizational subject-matter expert for mission-critical construction practices, data center delivery frameworks, and program governance.

• Lead strategic planning efforts across project teams, ensuring alignment of design, construction, commissioning, and operations readiness milestones.

• Influence enterprise-level construction methodologies, project controls, and risk management frameworks.

• Champion continuous improvement initiatives and adoption of digital tools and emerging technologies across project teams.

Owner Advocacy, Executive Engagement & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the senior executive interface for client leadership and stakeholders.

• Establish trusted relationships with owner representatives including real estate, construction, and operations leadership.

• Lead executive-level project reviews, milestone reporting, and strategic planning discussions.

• Guide clients through complex technical, operational, and financial decision-making related to mission-critical facility delivery.

Project Financial Performance

• Maintain executive oversight of project financial performance including revenue recognition, cost forecasting, and margin of delivery.

• Review and approve project financial reporting including cost-at-completion forecasts a