Assistant Project Manager

Description

Summary of Responsibilities:

The Assistant Project Manager assists with management oversight and leadership for all phases of construction projects. This includes coordinating employees, equipment, materials, and subcontractors, ensuring that contract documents are followed, and ensuring that work proceeds with quality, on schedule, and within budget.

Taking Charge

Durr TAKES CHARGE in constructing strong foundations upon which to build. Our focus is to do it SAFE and to do it RIGHT the first time. Our vision is to make an IMPACT and to KICK ASS, INNOVATE, MAKE MONEY, HAVE FUN and REPEAT every day/all day. We hold every employee to this standard of “Taking Charge,” and we expect this behavior to drive everything we do.

The Take Charge ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER

Proactive in every facet of your job

• Collaborates on the entire pre-job planning process, helping to ensure timely completion along with proper communication and dissemination of all pertinent information
• Prepare construction contracts, subcontracts, and purchase orders for review
• Compiles and organizes project submittal information, assists with submittal creation, and ensures proper communication between field operations, subcontractors, and suppliers
• Proactively identifies project changes and assists with estimating, obtaining, and managing change orders
  
  

Effectively manages and leads people, projects, and information

• Coordinate and manage with Project Manager(s) the work of field operations and subcontractors on multiple projects, keeping Project Managers fully informed
• Gain a thorough understanding of project scope, drawings, and other documents to analyze proactively for constructability, sequencing, opportunities, innovation, issues, etc.
• Coordinates, communicates, and proactively engages with field operations, reviewing work plans, progress, production, reports, etc., to identify issues and opportunities
• Support the planning, implementation, tracking, and closeout/turnover of construction projects
• Ensure all assigned duties are performed in a correct and timely fashion
  
  

Make a budget, if not GAIN, on each project, striving for ON-TIME completion of projects

• Manages and achieves profit goals set for projects, specifically buyout and procurement process
• Accurately tracks and updates project quantities and costs, assists project managers with the creation of internal reports
• Analyze project cost reporting and projects to gain an understanding of project profitability, costs, quantities, and gain/fade
• Collaborate with field operations to gain an in-depth understanding of means and methods, productions, and quality
• Proactively engage with estimating, learning correct methods for takeoffs, gaining a thorough understanding of takeoff and estimating software
• Assists project managers with preparing, tracking, and updating construction schedules to ensure project completion on time and within budget.
• Assist and document, as required, well-organized meetings with project stakeholders; consistently and accurately updating project progress and changes and making necessary requests to ensure the overall success of the project
  
  

Promote and expect SAFETY and QUALITY at all times

• Gain a thorough understanding of all safety requirements and always hold yourself and all team members accountable for the adherence and enforcement of safety
• Assist field operations to proactively identify potential safety hazards or safety needs during the pre-job planning phase of projects
• Minimizes risk by implementing quality assurance controls, consistently assuring that field operations and subcontractors have and are using the most current project documents; communicates timely
• Coordinates, documents, and tracks project closeout, including punch list, as-built drawings, and other required elements for project completion
  
  

Strive, learn, and grow into the most effective Assistant Project Manager you can be

• Be actively engaged and present on all assigned projects to monitor all activities and assist in future planning
• Collaborate with clients and project stakeholders with a focus on customer relations
  
  

The DURR Way

Be Proactive

• Anticipate future needs and address them today (not tomorrow)
  
  

Be Accountable

• Take ownership of your actions and honor your commitments made to other
  
  

Speak the Truth

• Always be honest and share your thoughts to improve yourself and the team
  
  

Go the Extra Mile

• Do what it takes to get the job done right and safe the first time
  
  

Give Praise

• Acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of teammates
  
  

Be Part of One Team

• Build strong win-win relationships with all teammates
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong Computer Skills (Microsoft Office, Excel, Outlook, Estimating Software, Takeoff Software, Adobe)
• Strong leadership skills
• Strong negotiating skills, including proactive dispute resolution
• Financial and Job Cost Accounting Knowledge
• Able to work under pressure, coordinate numerous activities, and manage groups of people who need to cooperate to achieve project and company goals
  
  

Education And/or Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or related field preferred

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts, and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to various extreme conditions at construction job sites. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud. This position is performed in outside weather conditions.