Assistant Project Manager Orlando

FMGI; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

FMGI is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to support the Project Team and back up the Project Manager, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery. The role acts as the field contact for Superintendents when PM is unavailable and may require after-hours availability to address issues arising during construction.

The candidate should have construction-site experience or an equivalent degree and strong communication, organization, and technical skills to manage documentation and PM platforms.

Qualifications

• Capable communicator with contractors and suppliers to acquire quotes for services or equipment as needed during job set up.
• Comfortable answering questions from the field and collaborating with the project team.
• Advanced computer skills with experience organizing electronic filing systems and PM platforms.
• Understanding of construction scope and ability to identify change events.
• Ability to read drawings and determine tasks outside the scope of work.

Responsibilities

• Assist with daily and accurate project reporting to the owner or owner’s representative.
• Oversee the job setup process for all equipment rental and purchase orders.
• Support Pre-Construction meetings and attend on-site meetings as needed.
• Collect shop drawings and send submittals to support job requirements.
• Verify demobilization plans and that the plan is executed by the Superintendent.
• Close out of each job and verify all final inspections and equipment pickups.
• Support completion of punch items and owner-specific documents (asset tagging, refrigeration docs, CO).

Skills

Project management basics

Field coordination

Communication with stakeholders

Document management

Education

Construction-site experience or related degree

Job description

Assistant Project Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION:

This is a support position that works in the Project Team and reports to the Project Manager. The Assistant Project Manager supports the field team and backs up the Project Manager to drive each job and complete the project on time and on budget. The APM is the field point of contact for the Superintendent(s) when the PM is unavailable. This position is a salaried position and frequently requires after-hours availability to address issues that arise within the course of construction.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Capable communicator with contractors and suppliers to acquire quotes for services or equipment as needed during job set up.
• Must be comfortable answering questions from the field as well as collaborating in any environment with the project team.
• Possess advanced computer skills with demonstratable experience organizing electronic filing systems and utilizing customer driven PM platforms.
• Thorough understanding of each aspect of a construction job and the associated scope of work- comfortable researching questions from the field regarding contractor responsibility.
• Solid ability to read drawings and determine tasks that fall out of scope and become change events.
• Minimum of two years working on construction job sites or an equivalent college degree.

SKILLS:

• Understands the basics of project management phases and their deliverables on a daily timeline.
• Communicates effectively with all municipalities regarding inspection expectations and guidelines- can support the field to meet the requirements.
• Maintains and shares information relevant to the projects at hand while driving the team to establish goals for improvement at all levels of the enterprise.
• Organized at all levels of document management and timely deliverables to close out the projects.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assists with daily and accurate project reporting to the owner or owner’s rep.
• Oversee the job set up process for all equipment rental and purchase orders.
• Support the Pre-Construction meeting and attend on-site meetings as needed.
• Collect shop drawings and send submittals to support job requirements.
• Verify that the Job Superintendent has a demobilization plan and that the plan is executed.
• Close out of each job and verify the Superintendent has all final inspections as well as all equipment pickup confirmations.
• Support the completion of all punch items/ tasks including owner specific documents (asset tagging, refrigeration docs, and Certificate of Occupancy).