Assistant Project Manager - Commercial Construction - Texas

ZipRecruiter; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company in Dallas is seeking an Assistant Project Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing project procurement, scheduling, safety compliance, and ensuring quality assurance. Ideal candidates will possess strong team spirit, organizational skills, and a background in construction management.

Qualifications

• Requires a four-year degree and five years of experience in construction management.
• Must be self-motivated, organized, and competent in Microsoft Office applications.
• Must possess qualities of integrity, credibility, and commitment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor project procurement, control, and scheduling.
• Prepare project estimates and review design documents for compliance.
• Assist in preparing monthly project forecasts and cost reports.

Skills

Team spirit

Organizational skills

Clear communication

Multi-tasking

Education

Four-year college degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or Architecture

Tools

Microsoft Office

Construction management software

Job description

Job DescriptionJob Description

Position Overview

Monitor and follow up on project procurement, control, and scheduling. Ensure project scope, meeting minutes, job safety, quality assurance and change order requests are in compliance with contract documents. Monitoring, controlling, and updating project schedules, owner contracts and construction contracts. Serve as a technical source of information on project plans, specifications, requests for information and shop drawings.

Functions of Position

• Provide project management under the supervision and direction of a project manager.
• Implement assigned duties with an exceptional level of accuracy, timeliness, and cost effectiveness.
• Ensure all project estimates are prepared in accordance with the requirements of the project. Become familiar with each estimate to fully support its integrity.
• Review and monitor all design and construction phase documents for conformance with the budget, schedule, and prime contract.
• Prepare instructions and coordinate bidding process, review subcontractor bids for conformance, qualifications, and financial factors.
• Negotiate and prepare subcontracts, contract purchase orders, agreement change orders and change order requests.
• Monitor all outstanding owner change orders and change order requests.
• Control job cost system, information, and analysis.
• Assist in preparing monthly project forecasts, cost reports and construction billing forecasts.
• Assure all project activities and closeout efforts are executed after proper planning has been done to conform to standards and specifications.
• Provide other duties including project engineer and field support roles and responsibilities.
• Review and process all submittals and RFI's, ensuring compliance with contract documents and in accordance with project needs
• Participates and/or chairs meetings, coordinates agendas, prepares meeting minutes, and follows up on action items
• Prepare all change orders requests and agreement change orders, review pricing and status, ensuring compliance with prime contract. Maintain document files and logs (send to PC for processing)
• Maintain current scheduling information and filing
• Apply for permits and C of O's
• Coordination of utilities as directed
• Upload drawings to Procore
• Establish and manage procedures providing an orderly and systematic process for handling problems and information requests generated through the course of construction
• Maintain a complete and current set of drawings reflecting all changes from the base contract documents, including change order request, addenda, field work orders, ASI's, correspondence and field conditions
• Implement job start-up and close-out procedures as directed by the project manager
• Utilizes safe work practices and follows directives, policies, and procedures for assisting and maintaining a healthy and safe work environment as outlined in LGE's Corporate Safety Manual
• May mentor less experienced P.E.'s or Interns
• May delegate action items to other staff as directed

  Required Attributes

  MOST important is TEAM spirit! To be successful as a Assistant Project Manager you will need to be able to work on tight deadlines, be competent in using Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel, familiarity with construction management software, and have exceptional verbal, written, and organizational skills. Project Engineer should possess personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and commitment to the LGE mission. Ability to multi-task; can work within a fast-paced environment. Self-motivated, organized, and communicates clearly. Logical, positive, and friendly.

  Degrees, Licenses, Certifications and Experience

  This position requires a four-year college degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, related field, or work experience equivalent. A minimum of five years' work experience in construction management or related field required.

  Reporting

  Assistant Project Manager to report directly to Director of Construction.

  Evaluation

  Annual review by Director of Construction to include peer input. Review will be based on interactions and engagement with the TEAM, evidence of how you demonstrate company values, ability to manage workload and competency in the execution of your duties.

Equal Employment Opportunity

LGE Design Build provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to , , , , , , status, genetics, protected veteran status, , or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the Team.

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