Assistant Project Manager

Position Summary

The Assistant Project Manager is responsible for assisting Superintendents and/or Project Managers in coordinating the activities of a project to ensure cost, schedule, document control and quality standards are met.

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Competitive salary
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Profit sharing
• Vision insurance

• May be required to update and monitor Request for Information (RFI) System.
• May be required to compile, update, and monitor Change Order Request Log.
• Read and understand elements of all required/applicable contract. With Project Manager is the Company’s authority on contract between the Owner and the Company.
• Ensure performance of all contracts administrative management functions as appropriate or once project is assigned.
• Attend all meetings w/ Owner’s Representative. Call meetings as necessary to clarify or settle major issues.
• Develop or approve the appropriate schedule of values for prime and/or subcontract billings.
• Prepare and review with all appropriate parties and submit by established billing date payment requisitions to OR.
• Manage Receivables to ensure timely payment.
• Review and approve monthly subcontractor pay requisitions. Ascertains that necessary accompanying documents (e.g. lien releases) that may be required are received with pay requests.
• Ensure that subcontracts are drafted and executed in a timely fashion to facilitate project schedule. (Cooperative effort with Estimating.)
• Ensure the acquisition of permits, bonds and insurance through appropriate channels are required.
• Closely monitor all Subcontractor performance in order to ascertain that each subcontractor is in compliance with all provisions and requirements of his/her contract with Company. Ensure that all field records are being kept. Perform periodic audits. Ensure that changes are correctly posted to budget and other job tracking systems.
• Manage and monitor the shop drawing submittal process.
• Document important transactions, agreements, delays or events relating to contract, (e.g., photos, videotaping, event long) to ensure company’s best interest is served and protected.
• Efficiently complete project closeout in accordance with contract document and collects retainage in a timely manner.
• Price, negotiate, and collect for all change orders and extra work, if required by management. (Major changes may require estimating assistance and executive approval.)
• To the degree assigned in the particular company, participate in, perform or direct the buyout of the project. Solicit, acquire, and contract vendors and subs for items not covered in the initial buyout.
• Develop and communicate an effective plan in cooperation with the Superintendent for constructing the project and determines the means and methods necessary (including individual work activities) to meet project goals.
• Ensure that the means and methods of construction employed will maximize production, assure quality, minimize costs and promote safety.

• High school diploma, supplemented with a minimum of 10 years construction experience, of which at least five years must have been in a leadership capacity OR
• Associate degree in an Engineering, Construction Management, or business-related field supplemented by a minimum of 7 years construction experience of which at least three years must have been in a leadership capacity OR
• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering, Construction Management or a business-related field supplemented with a minimum of five years construction experience, three of which must have been in a leadership capacity.
• efficiently and enacts that decision clearly
• Accepts full responsibility for actions and acts respectively toward all peers
• Supports training and development efforts
• Displays visionary/strategic thinking
• Conducts self in an ethical manner