Assistant Project Manager

About Cref

Cref is dedicated to providing strategic real estate solutions focused on helping organizations maximize their physical infrastructure. By enhancing resiliency, improving user experiences, reducing costs, and unlocking capital, Cref plays a critical role in ensuring facilities are not just spaces, but strategic assets that drive organizational success.

Redefining real estate management through innovation and strategic partnership, we specialize in offering long-term, integrated solutions tailored to address industry-specific complexities. By partnering with leading operators, we focus on resolving our clients’ challenges and ensuring a streamlined approach to facilities and infrastructure management.

The Planning, Design & Construction team serves as a strategic partner across operational and capital initiatives, collaborating with healthcare stakeholders to manage risk, maintain compliance, and support long‑term facility readiness.

This division develops structured workplans and operational strategies that translate healthcare business objectives into successful infrastructure and facilities outcomes while maintaining operational, regulatory, and financial alignment.

The Assistant Project Manager supports the planning, coordination, and execution of operational and capital projects within a dedicated healthcare facility in Nashville, Tennessee. This role works onsite daily and partners closely with hospital leadership, facilities operations teams, consultants, contractors, and project stakeholders to support infrastructure improvements, operational readiness, and healthcare construction initiatives.

This position assists in managing projects throughout the full project lifecycle, including planning, design, construction, activation, and transition to operations, while ensuring alignment with healthcare operational and regulatory standards.

• Establish positive and collaborative working relationships with colleagues, hospital stakeholders, consultants, and contractors
• Demonstrate adaptability and responsiveness to support operational and project objectives
• Support communication and coordination across project teams and facility operations

• Apply logic, technical knowledge, and sound judgement to project‑related decisions
• Demonstrate awareness of operational impacts within an active healthcare environment
• Escalate concerns and support resolution of project or operational issues as needed

• Prepare meeting minutes, reports, schedules, dashboards and project documentation clearly and efficiently
• Communicate professionally with hospital leadership, consultants, contractors and project teams
• Maintain open communication between all project stakeholders and facility operations personnel

• Apply critical thinking and problem‑solving skills to operational and project‑related challenges
• Recognize team capabilities, resources and priorities
• Support decision‑making with professionalism and accountability

• Utilize computer applications for project cost tracking, scheduling and documentation
• Develop working knowledge of healthcare facility operations, building systems and construction techniques
• Develop understanding of architectural systems, infrastructure systems and healthcare regulatory environments
• Participate in ensuring field compliance with project specifications, safety requirements and operational standards
• Develop working knowledge of applicable federal, state, local and healthcare regulatory requirements

• Assist with gathering project information to define scope, schedule and budget requirements
• Track ongoing project costs against established budgets
• Support analysis of budgets, schedules and project impacts

• Maintain project schedules and activity tracking
• Support project coordination and schedule communication with stakeholders
• Assist with project closeout, startup and operational transition activities

• Support day‑to‑day coordination of healthcare facility projects and operational…