Assistant Project Manager

Cushman & Wakefield; Gur; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield in India seeks an Assistant Project Manager to lead planning and on-site execution for PEB structures and industrial projects. You will coordinate with architects, contractors, and QA/QC teams to ensure timely, budget-compliant delivery and adherence to safety standards.

The role requires a BE Civil with 8–10 years of relevant experience, with FMCG/bottling exposure considered a plus. Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills are essential.

Qualifications

• B.E Civil with 8 to 10 years of experience in PEB structures and industrial projects.
• Experience in FMCG or bottling is a plus.
• Technical awareness of civil, electro-mechanical, and architectural works.
• Excellent organizational and motivational skills.
• Outstanding attention to detail and observation ability.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities.

Responsibilities

• Monitor progress against Master project schedule.
• Oversee site execution ensuring drawings/specs alignment.
• Provide timely notices about delays to contractors.
• Ensure work adheres to standards and site documentation.
• Report critical activities and bottlenecks to client.
• Advise on productivity improvements for resources.
• Monitor procurement and labour to meet schedule.
• Administer contracts and support dispute resolution.
• Assist QA/QC and safety teams on site.
• Escalate abnormal developments to the Project Manager.
• Coordinate with internal teams and clarify specifications.
• Monitor construction activities, schedules, budgets; mitigate non-conformance costs.
• Provide cost-saving solutions and negotiate change orders.
• Support risk management and installation/testing planning to takeover.
• Ensure construction and safety management plans are implemented.

Skills

PEB Structures

Industrial Projects

Technical Awareness

Organizational Skills

Communication Skills

Interpersonal Abilities

Education

BE Civil

Job description

Job Description

Assistant Project Manager

Job Description Summary

This role is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing resources to ensure that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. Construction Project Engineers work closely with architects, contractors, and other stakeholders to ensure that projects are executed according to plan.

Job Description

About the Role

• Monitor progress of work with respect to Master project schedule
• Monitoring the execution of work at site to ensure alignment to the drawings and specification.
• Timely reminders to all contractors about the delays in schedule
• Ensuring the workability and adherence to standards in the work statement/methodologies submitted by contractors for each item of work and ensuring the alignment to the same at site. Responsible for all site work related documentation for the assigned items of work.
• Anticipate and flag imminent bottlenecks. Take steps to avoid delays. Furnish necessary reports of critical activities and super critical activities to client.
• Advice contractors in enhancing the resource productivity by implementing various work study techniques.
• Monitor procurement of materials, equipment and labour by contractors with respect to the time schedule and advise them suitable measures for improvement.
• Administration of all contracts, and assistance in resolution of differences and disputes, if any, arising during the duration of contract.
• Assisting QA/QC – in – charge in ensuring all quality parameters are met for civil & structural works.
• Assisting the safety team in implementing the safety standards at site; provide all support for making job safety analysis.
• Escalating to project manager about all abnormal developments with respect to progress of work, safety, quality, resources etc
• Clarifies specification and continuously liaise with accountable Project Manager internal.
• Monitors construction activity, schedule, milestone and adherence to budgets and initiates actions to minimize non-conformance cost.
• Provide cost saving solutions and negotiate contractor change orders.
• Manages the project’s risk management process.
• Implementation of systems requirements in the installation and test plans of the Contractor for the detailed planning and construction phase until final takeover is completed.
• Ensure project construction & safety management plan are fully implemented.

About You

• B.E Civil with 8 to 10 years of experience in PEB structure, industrial projects
• Working experience in FMCG or bottling will be an added benefit.
• Technical awareness of civil, electro-mechanical, and architectural works
• Excellent organizational and motivational skills
• Outstanding attention to detail and observation ability
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;

• Being part of a growing global company;
• Career development and a promote from within culture;
• An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.
We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.

We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.

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