Assistant Project Manager

James McHugh Construction Co.

Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 60,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)

Medical Flexible Spending Account

Dependent Care Flexible Spending</name

Tuition Reimbursement

Health and Wellness Programs

Vacation Leave

Sick Leave

Holiday Pay

Paid Parental Leave

Long‑Term Disability

Job summary

James McHugh Construction Co. seeks an Assistant Project Manager to provide administrative and technical direction for a single project. You may handle document control, pricing requests, change orders, and subcontractor coordination, reporting to the Senior/Project Manager.

As part of Operations, you will work with the project team, review RFIs, monitor schedules, and ensure safety and quality requirements are met on site.

Qualifications

Strong communication and interpersonal skills essential.
Business‑oriented mindset with project focus.

Responsibilities

Work independently under the direction of the Project Manager.
Review RFIs and submittals, and maintain submittal status reports.
Create and update cost summaries and track project costs.
Review and approve subcontractor invoices and manage change orders.
Support schedule updates and look‑ahead planning with the team.
Coordinate trades, shop drawings, procurement logs and on‑site checklists.
Ensure compliance with safety, quality, bond, and insurance requirements.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Business‑oriented mindset

Education

4‑year engineering degree or equivalent

3–5 years experience in construction, design, finance & management

Job description

We are seeking a new Assistant Project Manager to join our team. As an APM you will provide overall administrative and technical direction for one particular project. You may have responsibility for specific aspects of construction (for example, managing document control, pricing proposal requests and tenant upgrades, issuing subcontractor and owner change orders, approving invoices, updating project schedule) or for one or more specific trades or one or more portions of the project.

As a member of the Operations Department, you will work with the Project Team and report to the Senior Project Manager or Project Manager.

Responsibilities

Work independently and exercise discretion in day-to-day activities under direction of Project Manager.
Review and issue RFI's to the Architect and Owner for review and approval and distribute response to all involved parties.
Review submittals for compliance with contract documents and submit for approval. Create a submittal schedule and maintain submittal status report.
Create and maintain contract documents revisions log within Procore to ensure key team members have most up-to-date construction set of drawings and specifications.
Create price proposal requests for subcontractors work and work with the Project Manager to award and draft subcontractors and purchase orders and enforce the requirements of these agreements.
Issue Subcontractor change orders and owner change orders.
Create and update cost summary reports (PCO's, OCO's).
Review and approve subcontractor invoices at monthly pay application meetings.
Provide monthly report update to Owner on overall project costs and weekly quantity updates for self‑performed work to administration.
Review schedule with the project team and identify lead times on material deliveries, critical path activities, or delays that may impact overall schedule. Monitor and update base‑line project schedule on a monthly basis.
Work with Superintendent to update look‑ahead schedules and distribute to all project participants weekly.
Active role in weekly subcontractor and owner/architect meetings.
Prepare and provide Daily Activity Reports to owner.
Coordination between trades, including review and coordination of shop drawings, procurement logs, pre-task meetings and on-site checklists
Enforce and comply with all Safety and Quality Control Requirements of a Project.
Enforce and comply with all bond and insurance requirements of a Project.

Qualifications

A 4‑year engineering degree or equivalent.
3 to 5 years experience/knowledge of construction, design, finance, and management required.
Ability to apply innovative and effective management techniques to maximize employee performance.
Thorough understanding of corporate and industry practices, processes, standards, etc. and their impact on project activities; superior communication and interpersonal (tact, diplomacy, influence, etc.) skills essential.
Business‑oriented mindset.

Benefits