Electrical Project Manager Jobs in Virginia
Electrical Project Manager jobs in Virginia are in strong demand, concentrated in defense contracting, federal facilities construction, data center development, and commercial infrastructure across a market that ranges from entry-level project engineers to senior program leads. Northern Virginia, Richmond, and Hampton Roads are the primary hiring centers, where established contractors such as Leidos, DPR Construction, and AMSEC regularly staff electrical project management roles. The most sought-after specialties include large-scale federal and mission-critical projects, data center electrical systems, and utility-scale power distribution. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Description
PROJECT DIRECTOR
This is a site based role, supporting large projects across the USA.
Some of our current project sites include:
Ashburn, VA, Charleston, SC, Columbus, OH, CTP Lancaster CPE, PA, Danville, PA, Fargo, ND, Franklin Furnace, OH, Minneapolis, MN, New Florance, MO, Pittsburg (Shippingport), PA, Point Pleasant, WV, San Antonio, TX, San Antonio (Lytle), TX, South Bend, IN, and West Memphis, AR.
About ArchKey
ArchKey is one of the nation’s largest privately held specialty trade installation and integrated facility service companies. We are a leader in designing, building, and maintaining electrical, technologies and specialty systems. We’re the POWER behind making the improbable possible.
We’re electrifying the nation, energizing the future, and bringing communities to life like never before. What we do today shapes the vision of tomorrow. Our work impacts lives long after the building is done. This means we are committed to building in ways that are not just technologically advanced, but sustainable, scalable, and equitable by all. We’re not just energizing infrastructure, we’re energizing careers, communities, and the future.
Made up of the brightest minds in the industry, our team is our greatest asset bringing knowledge, skills, and experience to every project. This is more than a call to join us, it’s an invitation to be part of a visionary journey, to grow with us as we scale.
About the Position
The Project Director is responsible for providing overall strategies, leadership, and management of multiple, less complex regional or national projects from start to finish, including staffing, managing project budget, scheduling, quality control, problem resolution, job coordination and communication, job invoicing/payments and client satisfaction activities. This position has responsibility for business development, job solicitation and project negotiations, in alignment with all Company policies, procedures, key objectives and regulations.
Our Ideal Candidate
- Strong executive presence.
- Can flex and adapt to the growing needs of the business.
- Can work autonomously and creatively to solve problems.
- Has a growth mindset and is always looking to learn and grow continually.
Day in the Life
- Partners with senior leadership to create key functional strategies, critical objectives, and decisions affecting the business unit and functional work group. Conducts high-quality business development, creates key customer relationships, and performs job solicitation in the marketplace.
- Creates project execution strategies and directs all phases and activities of the project to achieve high quality and productivity in the work performed. Ensures all construction contracts are fulfilled to the customer’s satisfaction and the Company has earned a fair profit.
- Plans, implements, independently manages, and maintains project activities to optimize the efficiency of labor, materials, supplies, equipment, and tools. Ensures all plans and specifications identify project scope and milestones and share them with all appropriate parties.
- Provides frequent management oversight and problem resolution. Communicates directly with project team members, contractors, and designers concerning project costs, staffing, and scheduling. Manages timely and accurate project documents, estimates, projections, material release schedules, client information, purchase orders, monthly invoices, payments, closeout documents, warranties, drawings, specification logs, maintenance manuals, final billings, change orders, and other related documents related to construction projects.
- Builds strategic and effective relationships with clients and future clients, foremen, project teams, specialty contractors, vendors, suppliers, user groups, and others that reflect and support the Company’s core values and meet or exceed the customer’s expectations.
- Provides regular and high-quality hiring, communications, mentoring, coaching, problem-solving, and training to staff and other co-workers at all levels as needed. Advises and coaches employees and provides performance feedback regularly.
- Creates and manages an annual financial budget and maintains some level of responsibility for Companywide financials. Stays informed of new and changing Company procedures, policies, materials, technologies, techniques, and practices. Establishes, trains, and maintains policies and processes.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in project management, business administration, construction engineering/management, or a related field.
- 7-8 years of project management and project leadership experience with projects of all sizes. Extensive project management training and skills. Thorough understanding of the project life cycle. Minimum 5 years of experience directly managing people.
- 3-5 Years of experience with medium voltage with underground electrical installation.
- Previous field construction experience or equivalent (e.g., electrical, technologies, fire, etc.). Keen knowledge of the managed business unit and the overall departmental function. Knowledge of and proficiency with construction methods and materials, costing, power, lighting, systems design and general industry safety standards, procedures, and regulations. Must have extensive knowledge of the electrical code. Skills to read, interpret, and understand electrical contracts, plans, drawings, blueprints, and specifications.
- Experience and proficiency using Accubid software, Revit, CAD, SKM, AGI, Navisworks and/or BIM systems may be required.
- Extensive experience with value analysis in all market segments and in-depth trade knowledge. Strong conceptual estimating and problem-solving skills, and experience in reviewing estimates for accuracy and completeness. Previous experience with field installation is helpful.
- Excellent business analysis, quality management and mathematical skills. Skills to read and interpret financial documents. Trained and proficient in negotiating, budgeting, costing, contracting, scheduling, pricing, and common code requirements.
Travel
- This position will travel daily to an assigned project site.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. #CA30-1
Beware of fraudulent job postings. ArchKey Solutions only communicates through official channels. All official communication will come from an @archkey.com email address and we will never ask for financial information, payments, or personal details outside of the standard hiring process. To confirm the legitimacy of a job, visit our careers page or reach out to a member of our Talent Acquisition team.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Description
PROJECT DIRECTOR
This is a site based role, supporting large projects across the USA.
Some of our current project sites include:
Ashburn, VA, Charleston, SC, Columbus, OH, CTP Lancaster CPE, PA, Danville, PA, Fargo, ND, Franklin Furnace, OH, Minneapolis, MN, New Florance, MO, Pittsburg (Shippingport), PA, Point Pleasant, WV, San Antonio, TX, San Antonio (Lytle), TX, South Bend, IN, and West Memphis, AR.
About ArchKey
ArchKey is one of the nation’s largest privately held specialty trade installation and integrated facility service companies. We are a leader in designing, building, and maintaining electrical, technologies and specialty systems. We’re the POWER behind making the improbable possible.
We’re electrifying the nation, energizing the future, and bringing communities to life like never before. What we do today shapes the vision of tomorrow. Our work impacts lives long after the building is done. This means we are committed to building in ways that are not just technologically advanced, but sustainable, scalable, and equitable by all. We’re not just energizing infrastructure, we’re energizing careers, communities, and the future.
Made up of the brightest minds in the industry, our team is our greatest asset bringing knowledge, skills, and experience to every project. This is more than a call to join us, it’s an invitation to be part of a visionary journey, to grow with us as we scale.
About the Position
The Project Director is responsible for providing overall strategies, leadership, and management of multiple, less complex regional or national projects from start to finish, including staffing, managing project budget, scheduling, quality control, problem resolution, job coordination and communication, job invoicing/payments and client satisfaction activities. This position has responsibility for business development, job solicitation and project negotiations, in alignment with all Company policies, procedures, key objectives and regulations.
Our Ideal Candidate
- Strong executive presence.
- Can flex and adapt to the growing needs of the business.
- Can work autonomously and creatively to solve problems.
- Has a growth mindset and is always looking to learn and grow continually.
Day in the Life
- Partners with senior leadership to create key functional strategies, critical objectives, and decisions affecting the business unit and functional work group. Conducts high-quality business development, creates key customer relationships, and performs job solicitation in the marketplace.
- Creates project execution strategies and directs all phases and activities of the project to achieve high quality and productivity in the work performed. Ensures all construction contracts are fulfilled to the customer’s satisfaction and the Company has earned a fair profit.
- Plans, implements, independently manages, and maintains project activities to optimize the efficiency of labor, materials, supplies, equipment, and tools. Ensures all plans and specifications identify project scope and milestones and share them with all appropriate parties.
- Provides frequent management oversight and problem resolution. Communicates directly with project team members, contractors, and designers concerning project costs, staffing, and scheduling. Manages timely and accurate project documents, estimates, projections, material release schedules, client information, purchase orders, monthly invoices, payments, closeout documents, warranties, drawings, specification logs, maintenance manuals, final billings, change orders, and other related documents related to construction projects.
- Builds strategic and effective relationships with clients and future clients, foremen, project teams, specialty contractors, vendors, suppliers, user groups, and others that reflect and support the Company’s core values and meet or exceed the customer’s expectations.
- Provides regular and high-quality hiring, communications, mentoring, coaching, problem-solving, and training to staff and other co-workers at all levels as needed. Advises and coaches employees and provides performance feedback regularly.
- Creates and manages an annual financial budget and maintains some level of responsibility for Companywide financials. Stays informed of new and changing Company procedures, policies, materials, technologies, techniques, and practices. Establishes, trains, and maintains policies and processes.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in project management, business administration, construction engineering/management, or a related field.
- 7-8 years of project management and project leadership experience with projects of all sizes. Extensive project management training and skills. Thorough understanding of the project life cycle. Minimum 5 years of experience directly managing people.
- 3-5 Years of experience with medium voltage with underground electrical installation.
- Previous field construction experience or equivalent (e.g., electrical, technologies, fire, etc.). Keen knowledge of the managed business unit and the overall departmental function. Knowledge of and proficiency with construction methods and materials, costing, power, lighting, systems design and general industry safety standards, procedures, and regulations. Must have extensive knowledge of the electrical code. Skills to read, interpret, and understand electrical contracts, plans, drawings, blueprints, and specifications.
- Experience and proficiency using Accubid software, Revit, CAD, SKM, AGI, Navisworks and/or BIM systems may be required.
- Extensive experience with value analysis in all market segments and in-depth trade knowledge. Strong conceptual estimating and problem-solving skills, and experience in reviewing estimates for accuracy and completeness. Previous experience with field installation is helpful.
- Excellent business analysis, quality management and mathematical skills. Skills to read and interpret financial documents. Trained and proficient in negotiating, budgeting, costing, contracting, scheduling, pricing, and common code requirements.
Travel
- This position will travel daily to an assigned project site.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. #CA30-1
Beware of fraudulent job postings. ArchKey Solutions only communicates through official channels. All official communication will come from an @archkey.com email address and we will never ask for financial information, payments, or personal details outside of the standard hiring process. To confirm the legitimacy of a job, visit our careers page or reach out to a member of our Talent Acquisition team.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Electrical Project Manager Job Market in Virginia
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Chemicals & Materials
- Construction & Real Estate
What Virginia Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in electrical project manager jobs across Virginia.
- Active Virginia contractor license or master electrician license recognized by DPOR required
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, construction management, or a related technical field
- PMP or PMI certification strongly preferred for roles overseeing large-scale project portfolios
- Demonstrated experience managing NEC-compliant electrical installations on commercial or federal projects
- Proficiency with project scheduling and estimating tools such as Primavera P6 or Procore
- Ability to obtain a federal security clearance for defense and government facility projects in Virginia
Electrical Project Manager Jobs in Virginia: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a electrical project manager in Virginia?
The most direct path is combining a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or construction management with field experience and licensure through the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, or DPOR. Virginia requires contractors who oversee electrical work to hold a Board for Contractors license at the Class A, B, or C level depending on project scope. Many electrical project managers in Virginia also earn a PMP credential, which carries significant weight with defense contractors and large commercial firms in the state.
Which companies hire electrical project managers in Virginia?
Employers hiring electrical project managers in Virginia right now include ARCHKEY SOLUTIONS, EMCOR, and Rinvio, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Virginia's concentration of federal agencies, defense contractors, and rapidly expanding data center campuses in Northern Virginia means that both large contractors and specialized subcontractors maintain consistent hiring activity throughout the year.
Which Virginia cities have the most electrical project manager jobs?
Richmond, Ashburn, and Sterling have the most electrical project manager openings in Virginia. Northern Virginia's density of data centers and federal facilities drives the heaviest volume, while Richmond's commercial and industrial growth supports steady mid-market hiring and Hampton Roads sustains demand through its naval installations and base infrastructure projects.
Are there remote electrical project manager jobs in Virginia?
Yes, but they're rare. About 27% of electrical project manager openings tied to Virginia are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the fundamentally site-dependent nature of the role. The portions of the work most amenable to remote arrangements include preconstruction planning, estimating, scheduling, and vendor coordination, while site supervision and inspections remain on-site requirements.
How can I get hired as a electrical project manager in Virginia with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry point is a project engineer or assistant project manager role with a Virginia-based general or electrical contractor, where you support a senior PM on active projects while building hands-on NEC and scheduling experience. Large Virginia contractors and federal construction firms routinely bring on recent graduates from Virginia Tech, George Mason, or Old Dominion University into rotational or associate PM programs. Earning your OSHA 30, pursuing a DPOR contractor license at the Class C level, and gaining experience in Procore or Primavera P6 distinguishes candidates with limited tenure.
Where can I find and apply to electrical project manager jobs in Virginia?
You can find and apply to electrical project manager jobs in Virginia on Migrate Mate, which lists current Virginia openings from employers actively hiring. Find the roles that fit your experience and location, then apply directly to each one through the listing.
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