Industrial Electrical Assistant PM - Field-Driven Projects

EMCOR Group, Inc.; Columbia (SC); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Industrial Constructors, INC. is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to work from our Columbia, SC office with travel in/out of GA. The role focuses on planning, budgeting, document control, vendor coordination, and ensuring project milestones are met.

The successful candidate will support Project Managers, manage administrative tasks, prepare estimates and invoices, and monitor schedule progress while maintaining safety standards and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience helping to manage industrial construction projects up to $1M with high complexity.
• 3+ years of client relationship and business development experience, including leading the preparation and development of bids with a successful record.
• Demonstrated success in team leadership, process adherence, ownership/commitment, learning agility and risk management capabilities.
• Strategic thinker who can establish and manage plans while building and fostering relationships.
• Knowledge of safety and relevant OSHA requirements and regulations.
• Proficient PC skills; including knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and project management scheduling software.

Responsibilities

• Actively promotes and strengthens our core values and culture of Mission First, People Always through everyday actions and decisions.
• Works closely with Project Managers, client, and supervision on a daily basis to prepare, plan, develop and oversee site projects, establish priorities and assign resources or capital.
• Performs administrative tasks as required, including preparing estimates and invoices and keeping track of the project’s progress, usually with the help of specific software
• Supporting team members by researching project information
• Updating and reporting on the project’s schedule progress, budget, and spending
• Responsible for assisting with cost management, including estimating, funding, budgeting, forecasting, controlling and reporting.
• Uses knowledge of project scheduling, bids, take offs, change orders, and contracts to properly assist in identifying and processing scope changes, address issues, communicate regarding project milestones, etc.
• Continuously develop relationships to identify and cultivate opportunities.
• Plans and schedules resources to meet project demands.
• Helps to devises new approaches to problems, and to prepare or modify drawings, specifications, calculations, charts and graphs and monitor work for compliance to applicable codes and accepted engineering practices.
• Assists in ensuring all equipment, tools and employees assigned to project operate in accordance with SIC policy, government regulations and customer requirements.
• Helps monitor the executing of the SIC safety program and the performance of work by internal staff and external vendors and champions our Safety-First mentality.
• Provides regular updates of project statuses to Project Managers and/or other Upper Management.
• Travels to jobsites on a regular basis to oversee projects.
• Other duties and projects assigned.
• Actively promotes and strengthens our core values and culture of Mission First, People Always through everyday actions and decisions.

Skills

Industrial construction management

Client relationship

Team leadership

Budgeting & cost control

Scheduling & planning

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project scheduling software

Job description

Southern Industrial Constructors, INC. is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to work from our Columbia, SC office with travel in/out of GA. The role focuses on planning, budgeting, document control, vendor coordination, and ensuring project milestones are met.

The successful candidate will support Project Managers, manage administrative tasks, prepare estimates and invoices, and monitor schedule progress while maintaining safety standards and regulatory compliance.