Associate Project Manager

Barge Design; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Barge Design Solutions is seeking an Associate Project Manager to support our Mission Critical practice. This role focuses on learning and applying PM procedures under a Project Manager while handling multi-disciplinary project activities.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to define budgets, timelines, and deliverables, lead technical aspects of projects, and report progress to management and clients. This role emphasizes growth within a professional engineering environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; minimum of 4 years of relevant industry experience
• Attend and participate in PM training programs

Responsibilities

• Learn and implement PM procedures under the direction of a Project Manager
• Collaborate with stakeholders on proposals to determine time, cost, and processes
• Establish Project Management Plans and assemble teams
• Execute activities to meet project goals within defined time and budget
• Serve as the technical lead on projects
• Review reports and make modification recommendations
• Monitor budget against plan
• Prepare management and client reports
• Act as liaison with the client and project team during meetings
• Perform other duties as requested

Skills

Technical credibility

Project management

Communication skills

Deadline management

Education

Bachelor's degree

PM training

Job description

What We're Looking For:

Barge Design Solutions is seeking an Associate Project Manager to support our growing Mission Critical practice. This role generally serves in a technical capacity on projects but also executes project management activities under the direction of a Project Manager on single-discipline projects. This role does not have direct responsibility for projects nor does it not maintain a Barge job sheet.

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include working with leadership and under the direction of a Project Manager to learn and implement proper PM procedures.
• Collaborates with stakeholders on proposals to determine time, cost, & processes for accomplishing projects deliverables.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to establish Project Management Plans and assemble teams
• Executing activities to ensure that goals or objectives of projects are accomplished within defined time and established budget.
• Functions as the technical lead on projects.
• Reviews reports and findings. Makes recommendations for modification to project as needed.
• Monitors budget against plan.
• Prepares reports for management, client, or others.
• Acts as liaison and builds relationships with client and project team participating in client meetings & leading internal project meetings.
• Performs other duties as requested.

Education & Experience Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from accredited program. Minimum of 4 years of relevant industry experience. Applicable certification as required by discipline.
• Attend and participate in PM training programs.

Skills:

• Strong technical credibility, strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to effectively manage projects and deadlines.

People Skills:

• This role indirectly leads a group of professionals technically through a project

EXPECTATIONS:

• Learning & applying applicable PM procedures, working closely with more tenured PM's to develop expertise.
• Role has heavy emphasis on meeting defined budget, billing, and utilization rates. There is also significance placed on providing a technically sound project.
• Embrace and champion our Purpose, Vision, and Values with all employees, teams, and direct reports.

OTHER:

• Walk, sit, and stand. Occasionally reach with hands, stoop, kneel, or crouch. Occasionally climb 25-30 feet. Occasionally lift up to 40 lbs. Visual acuity sufficient to read alpha/ numeric symbols for computation and design.
• Ability to adapt quickly and effectively to project issues that arise.

Why join us?

Barge Design Solutions, Inc., is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 650+ people strong and serves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked on Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s Top 500 Design Firms and Architectural Record’s Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified Great Place To Work®.

Our primary purpose for being in business is ultimately to create a better life by unleashing the potential of our people, clients and communities. This purpose is supported by our company’s core values because at the end of the day, Barge CARES:

• Collaborate – Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do.
• Authentic – Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are.
• Responsible – We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better.
• Excellence – We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us.
• Service – We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others.

We believe that if we are living out our purpose for being in business and integrating our values into everything we do, we will ultimately achieve our vision to be the firm best known for being selected when it matters most.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Agency Submissions

No unsolicited agency submissions. Barge Design Solutions does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or staffing agencies. Any unsolicited resume becomes the property of Barge Design Solutions, and no fee will be paid for resulting hires. Only agencies with a signed agreement are authorized to submit candidates.