Project Administrator

Salary Range: $50,000.00 To $55,000.00 Annually

Company Overview

URS is a Northern BC restoration company, and has recently become a member of the Canstar Group of Companies. With branches in Prince George, Smithers, Terrace, and Quesnel, URS focuses on helping people after experiencing a fire, flood, or other structural damage to their home or business.

We are a company that builds careers, with training initiatives like the Perfect File building skills that prepare you for the advancement opportunities that we are known for.

Lake days and BBQ’s are some of the fun events that we believe makes the family environment  are also active in the community, using our talents to do charity builds, and donating part of each project to the BCSPCA.

We take good care of our team too! We like to have fun and celebrate our success.

Position Overview

The Project Administrator responsibilities include working closely with our project management team to prepare comprehensive action plans, including resources, time frames and budgets for projects. You will perform various coordinating tasks, like schedule and risk management, along with administrative duties, like maintaining project documentation and handling financial queries. To succeed in this role, you should have excellent time management and communication skills, as you’ll collaborate with clients and internal teams to deliver results on deadlines.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Open jobs in PSA Web & Encircle
• Review jobs opened by Call Center and fix/update missing or incorrect information
• Guide the policyholder/client to upload photos & sign Work Authorization in Encircle
  • Coordinate with internal staff to have Work Authorization signed if the policyholder/client is not comfortable with this
  • Upload Work Authorization to XA when required
• PSA date entry – Loss, Received, Contacted, Inspected, Actual Start, Target Completion, Actual Completion, COC uploaded, Last Day on Job (when applicable), Production closed, Approved, estimate uploaded (if traditional quote), enter scope date and sent 24-hour date report and HMI date
• Confirm XA & Symbility date entry – Contacted, planned inspection, inspected, Target start, Job started, Target complete, Completed
• Create estimated revenue work orders within 24 hours of site inspection
  • Update estimate revenue work orders when quote/estimate is approved
• Forward 24-Hour Reports to clients through PSA & upload to XA when required
• Upload Emergency Scope to Encircle
• Send traditional scopes to clients as required
• Confirm Deductible, Inspection/Estimation Fee, and Interim Invoice requirements and request invoice creation/submission
• Assigning gatekeeper for estimating once all info is collected
• Review “Received Jobs Report” or “Job Management Report” daily – Check for new jobs that are missing the estimated revenue and check for any job info. that needs to be updated in PSA
• Review jobs in PSA whenever you are in them to – Check for missing dates (“Not Started”, “Not Contacted”, “Not Inspected”, “Not Completed”).
• Issue RFQs to sub-trades
  • Track sub-trade quotes and follow-up to ensure timely submission – Notify PM when all sub-quotes received for quoting purposes
• Create/format & send traditional quotes and/or scopes to clients
• Collect/send information to estimating team to prepare/revise estimates
  • Follow up on questions from the estimating team, and ensure timely PM approval/upload
• Enter, coordinate, maintain, and communicate job schedules
• Maintain property access and contact information in PSA
• Issue and track all work orders
• File management (PSA) – Save in-coming attachments, ensure proper uploading and labelling in PSA
• Maintain ongoing communication with property owners, PM Team, in-house departments, sub-trades, adjusters, property managers, and owners/tenants to ensure efficient job progress and completion and document them in PSA
• Follow up with  list and disposal authorization
• Facilitate with new subtrade set up
• Request Cost Transfers
• WIP report management
• Updates/uploads to XA or Symbility as required
• Review/Sign/Submit Site Supervisor timesheets
• Read & respond to emails as required
• General Release Forms
• Coordinate disposal of non-restorable content
• Complete File…