Commercial Specialties Assistant Project Manager

United-Contractor-Services; Kennesaw (GA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

United Contractor Services in Georgia is seeking an Assistant Project Manager for our Division 10 Specialties team. You will guide projects from estimate through procurement, delivery, and closeout, pricing work, placing orders, and tracking lead times.

You will coordinate with general contractors, architects, vendors, and installers, ensuring on-schedule deliveries and accurate documentation, while building toward a PM role.

Qualifications

• Able to read construction drawings, blueprints, and specs.
• Strong organizational and multitasking abilities.
• Clear communication and follow-through.
• Solid Microsoft Office skills; ERP/order-entry experience helps.

Responsibilities

• Estimating, bidding, and budget preparation under a Project Manager.
• Coordinate procurement, lead times, deliveries, and schedules to meet milestones.
• Maintain quotations, purchase orders, submittals, shop drawings, RFIs, change orders.
• Serve as the point of contact with general contractors, architects, vendors, and installers.

Skills

Read drawings

Organizational skills

Communication

MS Office

ERP/order entry

Tools

ERP or order entry software

Job description

What This Job Is

This is the supply side of commercial interiors. As an Assistant Project Manager on our Division 10 Specialties team, you'll take projects from the estimate through procurement, delivery, and closeout - pricing the work, placing the orders, tracking lead times, and keeping general contractors and installers informed along the way. The goal is straightforward: the right products, on the job when the schedule calls for them, matching what the specs require.

It's a full-time, in-office position, and it's structured as a path into a Project Manager seat.

Who This Fits

You'll do well here if you're organized enough to run a lot of open orders at once and comfortable picking up the phone when something doesn't line up. We're open on background - zero to two years in construction, estimating, or project coordination works, and internships count. Prior work in customer service, sales, or any B2B setting transfers well, since a good share of this job is talking to people about what they need and when they need it.

What we do want to see:

• Ability to read construction drawings, blueprints, and specifications
• A working understanding of construction processes, building systems, and project documentation
• Solid Microsoft Office skills; ERP or order entry experience helps
• Clear communication and a habit of following through
• Real interest in specialty products and the construction management side of the business

The Work Itself

• Estimating and bidding
  • Working under a Project Manager, you'll prepare takeoffs, budgets, quotations, and bid proposals. That starts with reviewing plans and specs to pin down what a project actually calls for, then identifying product solutions that hit the spec at a competitive number. Bids and budgets go out on deadline.
• Project execution
  • Once a job is awarded, it's yours to run through closeout. You'll coordinate procurement, approvals, lead times, deliveries, and schedules against the project's milestones and completion dates, and keep records and customer information accurate as things move.
• Documentation
  • Quotations, purchase orders, submittals, shop drawings, RFIs, change orders, and freight claims - all of it has to stay current and compliant with the contract documents and customer requirements.
• Communication
  • You'll be the point of contact for general contractors, architects, subcontractors, vendors, installers, and customers. When a product, order, or schedule issue comes up, you handle it directly and early, with a consultative approach rather than an order-taking one.

Product Categories You'll Work With

Toilet partitions, toilet accessories, lockers and benches, fire extinguishers and cabinets, visual display units, corner guards and wall protection, interior signage, and assorted other specialties.

What Success Looks Like

The people who thrive in this role are self-starters - detail-oriented, analytical, able to juggle competing priorities without dropping any of them. They work independently but coordinate well with internal teams and outside partners, they communicate professionally under pressure, and they're genuinely trying to learn the business well enough to step up into a PM role.

United Contractor Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law.

Drug Test and Background Disclaimer:

Candidates who receive a job offer will be required to undergo a drug test and background check in accordance with applicable laws. Providing false information may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or termination of employment. By submitting an application, candidates acknowledge and agree to these requirements.