Assistant Project Manager, Data Centers

Job Information

Title:

Assistant Project Manager, Data Centers

Location:

United States, Texas, Temple

Status:
Regular Full-Time – Project Management ( )

Suffolk is a national enterprise that builds, innovates, and invests. We provide value across the entire project lifecycle through our core construction management services and complementary business lines in real estate investment, design, self‑perform construction, and technology start‑up investment (Suffolk Technologies). By integrating data, artificial intelligence, and advanced technology through our Seamless Platform, we connect design, construction, and operations to deliver smarter, more predictable results and redefine how America builds.

The Mission Critical Center of Excellence manages billions of dollars in projects annually, specializing in data center and mission‑critical construction for leading technology and telecommunications clients across the United States. Focused on fast‑paced, MEP‑intensive projects, the group is recognized for delivering complex solutions while offering significant opportunities for career advancement within the thriving mission‑critical construction industry.

The Assistant Project Manager works with the Project Manager in running the day‑to‑day project management operations on the job.

• Log in and track contracts and purchase orders.
• Use experience and judgment to price, approve and/or reject Project Change Orders, Submittals, and respond to Requests for Information.
• Log in, track and review shop drawings and submittals and respond to Requests for Information.
• Request insurance certificates from subcontractors to review for compliance with the Company’s insurance requirements.
• Create and update vendor and subcontractor contact log.
• Price and create proposed change orders.
• Submit, track response and issue requests for information.
• Manage the building permit process and resolve any issues related thereto.
• Plan revision submissions to municipality.
• Work with Company Attorneys on contracts, insurance certificates, insurance discrepancies & contract modifications.
• Act as liaison with subcontractors to resolve disputes, questions, or issues related to subcontractor’s work and progress.
• Assist with project schedule narratives.
• Take weekly video and distribute to General Manager.
• Create weekly meeting minutes for owner’s and subcontractor meetings.
• Set up coordination meetings with subcontractors.
• Distribute revised drawings to subcontractors.
• Using best judgment, write up descriptions for purchase orders and subcontract requests.
• Obtain and track subcontractor warranty certificates.
• Create close‑out manuals.
• Conduct training for OSHA 10 or 30 Hour, HAZWOPER, and other safety related topics.

• Bachelor’s degree in an applicable discipline.
• 2+ years of related experience or completion of Suffolk’s Career Start Program as a Project Engineer or Project Engineer with another firm.
• Ability to manage and embrace change; respond and adapt to new processes and ways of looking at old problems.
• Computer literate.
• Good communication skills.
• Accurate with attention to detail.
• Candidate must possess Suffolk’s Core Values:
  Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time; talk or hear; perform fine motor, hand and finger skills in the use of a keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and reach with arms and/or hands. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

The employee will spend time in an office environment with a quiet to moderate noise level, and job site walking.

Suffolk provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, national origin, citizenship, genetic information, disability, protected veteran, gender identity, age or any other status protected by law. This policy applies to recruiting, hiring,…