Assistant Project Manager

Summary

The Assistant Project Manager assists the Project Manager with multiple traffic control projects by supervising, controlling and monitoring all aspects of a traffic control project.

• Plan, direct and coordinate all activities of the project to ensure that goals are accomplished within budget.
• Assist in establishing a project work plan that includes essential elements of the job with milestones and potential issues.
• Coordinate with other members of the department to allocate personnel to staff each project.
• Manage jobs to ensure contractor, motorist, and employee safety, as well as job profitability.
• Correct and approve the field personnel times for submission to Payroll daily.
• Approve, adjust, and submit Field Logs from the previous day.
• Create, edit and maintain the Traffic Control reports as needed.
• Create work orders and schedule daily rental deliveries and pickups.
• Perform and submit take-offs for Project Managers as needed and requested.
• Manage and complete utility locates as requested.
• Help resolve quantity differences working through quantity verification reports.
• Other projects and initiatives that drive organizational goals and results.

• This position oversees the union laborers.

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management or civil engineering is a plus.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite and construction software.
• For Hire license endorsement and clean driving record is required.

• Must have strong problem-solving skills and a desire to create solutions.
• Maintain a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Must have the ability to work in sensitive and confidential situations.
• Prior experience working under tight deadlines with changing priorities.
• Ability to anticipate work needs and follow through with minimum direction.
• Excellent organization and time management skills.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from internal or external customers.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, be self-motivated with a high sense of urgency.
• Ability to establish and maintain rapport and effective communication with diverse levels within the company and external organizations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions with ability to deal with abstract and concrete variables.

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit for long periods of time at a computer and use hands to finger, handle, or feel, walk, reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, talk, and hear. The employee is moderately required to stand and may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• This position will work in an office setting but may travel to off-site locations and therefore require wearing all PPE depending on circumstance which may include dust mask, safety glasses, hard hat, ear protection, safety vest and/or steel-toed footwear. At times client contract driven PPE may also be required.

High Star Traffic is an affirmative action/Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages all people to apply for this position.

Disclaimer:
The above statements are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the job requirements. Rather, they are intended to describe the general nature of the job. Company reserves the right to revise or change job duties as the need arises. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.