What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Project Manager position at Skender?
Hey! We’re Skender, nice to meet you.
Simply put, we’re builders. We build communities, relationships, dreams, and careers. If asked, “how would Skender describe itself?” We’d say we are an ambitious, humble, and compassionate company, looking for the right people to build a true partnership with for the long-term. The reason for our success is our people. We look for dynamic, high-energy, and fun teammates that are hungry for knowledge, ready to take charge of their career, and willing to have a blast while doing it.
Oh, we didn’t introduce ourselves…
About 70 years ago, Skender got its start in the basement of our founder’s family home. Now, Skender has two locations, our Chicago headquarters and our Indianapolis office, with over 300 employees. From humble basement beginnings to now, Skender has become one of the nation’s top 100 construction firms building dream spaces for many of the world’s leading brands. In more recent history (the past 15 years), we’ve won 28 best-place-to-work awards from three different organizations, each based on comprehensive workplace evaluations and employee input.
Wait, who are you?
We’re looking for an Assistant Project Manager who is ready to take their career to the next level. Do you know about project management best practices, establishing budgets, and innovating through construction technology? Great. Are you someone with a go-getter attitude who can assume responsibility and communicate effectively with your team, partners, and clients? Even better.
What will I do as an Assistant Project Manager?
Our Assistant Project Managers are pivotal players in our Operations team. You’ll be responsible for managing documentation, scheduling, financial reports, and trade partner & client relationships throughout the project life cycle, from project pursuit through pre-construction, construction, and facilities/asset management.
Your Main Responsibilities Will Include…
We’d like you to have a four-year degree in Construction Management or Engineering, or equivalent combinations of training & related experience. Plus at least 2-3 years’ experience in a construction-related field.
What skills will we require?
Simply put, we’re builders. We build communities, relationships, dreams, and careers. If asked, “how would Skender describe itself?” We’d say we are an ambitious, humble, and compassionate company, looking for the right people to build a true partnership with for the long-term. The reason for our success is our people. We look for dynamic, high-energy, and fun teammates that are hungry for knowledge, ready to take charge of their career, and willing to have a blast while doing it.
Oh, we didn’t introduce ourselves…
About 70 years ago, Skender got its start in the basement of our founder’s family home. Now, Skender has two locations, our Chicago headquarters and our Indianapolis office, with over 300 employees. From humble basement beginnings to now, Skender has become one of the nation’s top 100 construction firms building dream spaces for many of the world’s leading brands. In more recent history (the past 15 years), we’ve won 28 best-place-to-work awards from three different organizations, each based on comprehensive workplace evaluations and employee input.
Wait, who are you?
We’re looking for an Assistant Project Manager who is ready to take their career to the next level. Do you know about project management best practices, establishing budgets, and innovating through construction technology? Great. Are you someone with a go-getter attitude who can assume responsibility and communicate effectively with your team, partners, and clients? Even better.
Our team is driven by three core values:
- Proactive: You’ve got the eye of a tiger and the drive of a Ferrari. You are self-motivated, a hard-worker, and are ready to learn.
- Refreshing: Teamwork makes the dream work, right? Your success is your team’s success. You don’t shy away from giving credit where it’s due.
- True Partner: You jump at opportunities to collaborate/knowledge-share, you like to ask questions and actively listen, and you stay actively engaged with your team.
What will I do as an Assistant Project Manager?
Our Assistant Project Managers are pivotal players in our Operations team. You’ll be responsible for managing documentation, scheduling, financial reports, and trade partner & client relationships throughout the project life cycle, from project pursuit through pre-construction, construction, and facilities/asset management.
Your Main Responsibilities Will Include…
- Examine contract documents for submittal requirements, checking for scope gaps and overlaps. Must be presented in a timely manner as directed by the Project Manager.
- Review shop drawings for compliance with contract documents, accuracy, and coordination of interfacing materials.
- Prepare, maintain, and distribute various document control entities, including: submittals, RFIs, drawings/specifications, meeting minutes, punchlist/closeout, and issue logs. Meeting minutes must be sent within 48 hours after the meeting.
- Perform constraint analysis and its associated action (labor, RFIs, submittals, procurement contracts, materials, and weather).
- Update and maintain the project master schedule.
- Produce subcontract change orders in detail for changes to subcontracts as a result of additional work requested by owner or changes in plans or specifications. Submit them promptly to the Project Manager.
- Participate in scope reviews during the purchasing process to ensure that there are no gaps or overlaps in purchasing and to eliminate non-reimbursed change orders.
- Monitor safety procedures onsite and be familiar with when to notify SPQ and the Superintendent.
We’d like you to have a four-year degree in Construction Management or Engineering, or equivalent combinations of training & related experience. Plus at least 2-3 years’ experience in a construction-related field.
What skills will we require?
- Effective communication with internal and external stakeholders
- Advanced organizational and documentation capabilities
- Working knowledge of the bidding/budgeting process based on contract documents
- Intermediate knowledge of profit components and billing standards
- Experience utilizing Procore for scheduling and overall project management, and Sage for estimating
- Working knowledge of building construction components and systems for conceptual budgets
- Exposure to and general understanding of quantity take-offs, qualification of subcontractor bids, scheduling, general conditions and any project constraints or coordination issues
- Skender pays 100% of the premium for health insurance (medical, dental, & vision)
- Annual deposit into health savings account
- Dependent care FSA
- Retirement with 100% match up to 5% of gross earnings
- Generous vacation and sick time
- Tuition reimbursement for continued learning opportunities
- Wellness incentives
- Parental leave for mothers and fathers
- Employee referral program
- Free employee assistance program services
- Free short- & long-term disability insurance
- Gym reimbursement
- Charitable gift matching and volunteer events
- New hire mentorship program
- All of this, and more!
