Assistant Construction Manager

ArtHaus Partners; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ArtHaus Partners in Oakland, CA is seeking an Assistant Construction Manager to join an established development team across Bay Area and Northern California. This role supports the Director of Construction and collaborates with senior staff on ground-up and renovation projects within a fully integrated real estate platform.

You will help set up projects, track budgets and schedules, coordinate with consultants and engineers, and manage contracts and vendors to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery

Qualifications

• 3–6+ years of construction or project management experience.
• Experience with GC, subcontractors, or owners representative.
• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, architecture or related field.

Responsibilities

• Support Preconstruction and Construction phases to keep the project on budget and on schedule.
• Assist in managing construction budgets and schedules.
• Coordinate with acquisition and development teams on estimates and buyout processes.
• Source and manage contractors, subcontractors, consultants, vendors, and suppliers for the Company.
• Support in reporting progress, budgets, and monthly close processes.

Skills

Construction management

Budget management

Schedule coordination

Contract & vendor management

Preconstruction

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture or related field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Box

Job description

ArtHaus Partners is setting a new benchmark for workforce housing. Our innovative approach to multifamily development creates beautiful and well-appointed apartments for our residents at an attainable price point. We develop, manage, and operate a portfolio of 4,000 units, including 1,700 in development across 60 buildings representing $1B in real estate assets.

The ArtHaus Partners team includes +40 talented real estate development & construction, asset management, and investment professionals operating in the Bay Area for over 20 years. The firm’s Principals have worked together for over a decade in ground-up development and value-add opportunistic strategies establishing a strong track record of managed growth and performance.

ArtHaus Partners serves the “missing middle” segment of workforce housing– people earning 80-120% of an area\'s median income– as the housing supply for this demographic has not kept pace with its rapid growth. More recently, the company has expanded into student housing to address the needs of this adjacent underserved market.

ArtHaus Partners focuses on developing purpose-built, comfortable, transit-oriented, affordable housing accessible to everyone. The firm believes in making an impact in the communities it serves “doing well by doing good”. Please learn more at www.arthauspartners.com.

The Assistant Construction Manager is an exciting opportunity to join an established development team to build multiple project-types across the Bay Area and Northern California. This role will support the Director of Construction, as well as work closely with the other Senior construction and development team members. As part of joining a fully integrated real estate development company, this role would be exposed to, and would be an integral part of, the full development and investment life cycle form the owner\'s perspective. This position would have the opportunity to work on both proven, as well as innovative new strategies in ground-up and renovation projects.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

Project set up / Precon

• Support the Construction team in all aspects of the Preconstruction and Construction phases of value-add and ground-up multifamily construction to ensure the project is completed within budget and on schedule.
• Support in the management of the construction budget and schedules for assigned projects.
• Work with the team on coordination and support of the acquisition and development team in the estimating of ground-up construction projects and the overall buyout process.
• Coordinate with Consultants and Engineers during the Preconstruction phases to define design, prepare drawings, package permit submittals and define scope of project.

Project Management

• Manage and source new contractors, subcontractors, consultants, vendors, and suppliers for the Company.
• Manage and meet contractors, subcontractors, consultants, and vendors onsite during the course of a construction project
• Manage budgets, schedules and contract documents in the relevant systems for construction management and project accounting to ensure they are accurate and up to date. This includes but not limited to keeping budget updated in the accounting system, schedules in Microsoft project, and document management in Box.
• Work with the senior construction team to actively problem solve through challenges and obstacles throughout the course of a job.

Contracts and Vendors

• Support in the preparation, review and approvals of GC and subcontractor contracts.
• Work with the project accounting team to ensure contracts and invoices are obtained and appropriately entered into the system, as well as to ensure collection of lien releases and other necessary payment backup.
• Work with the project accounting team to ensure timely payments and accuracy of job costs.
• Review and approve vendor contracts, invoices, partial/final lien waivers and manage deliverables between our in-house GC and external vendors
• Manage bid out process for various projects and project scopes, work with vendors to obtain consistent bids and level competitive bids in order to compare pricing.

Reporting, Loan Draws and Accounting

• Support in the reporting of progress and budget matters to Senior Staff during weekly project meetings as well as ad hoc requests. This includes reconciling budget and job cost accounting, updating schedule, reporting against high level milestones and action items, reviewing financial statements, routinely and for the monthly close process for assigned projects
• Manage loan draw process for assigned projects, working closely with project accounting team to prepare, review and submit monthly loan draws.
• Work with and support the accounting and finance teams to forecast and manage cash for assigned projects.
• Communicate clearly and timely regarding all relevant matters, to both internal Company stakeholders as well as external vendors.

Secondary Job Duties – Aside from your core responsibilities detailed above, your performance and success will be evaluated based on standards that are expected across all functions of the company. Specifically, work should be completed on time, accurately, and to the quality expected by the Company. A more detailed description of secondary duties to be provided with employment agreement.

Qualifications

Required:

• 3-6+ years of construction or project management experience
• Experience at a general contractor, sub contractor, or as an owners representative
• Bachelor\'s Degree in Construction management, Engineering, Architecture or a related field.