About The Position
Turner & Townsend Heery is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to support large K-12 construction projects. The role leads individual, multidisciplinary construction project solutions for clients and is directly accountable for project delivery. It oversees project management across planning, design, construction, occupancy, and closeout, including budget, schedule, procurement, quality, and risk. The position works directly with clients and project teams to define requirements, plan and coordinate delivery, monitor project performance, manage documentation and changes, and help mitigate risks.
Requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills.
- Ability to provide efficient, timely, reliable, and courteous customer service.
- Ability to present information effectively.
- Knowledge of financial terms and principles, including the ability to calculate intermediate figures such as percentages, discounts, and commissions, and conduct basic financial analysis.
- Ability to understand and carry out general instructions in standard situations and solve problems in standard situations.
- Intermediate analytical and quantitative skills.
- Intermediate skills with Microsoft Office Suite.
- Ability to read and understand architectural drawings.
- Three to five years of construction experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or related construction experience.
Nice To Haves
- Working knowledge of MS Project.
- Knowledge of leases, contracts, and construction practices.
- Municipal or education experience.
- Ground-up, tenant-improvement, or renovation construction experience.
Responsibilities
- Manage budget, schedule, procurement, quality, and risk for individual real estate projects through planning, design, construction, occupancy, and closeout.
- Read, understand, and apply project documents, including agreements and contracts, leases, work letters, project charters, surveys, and drawings.
- Work directly with clients to define project requirements.
- Prepare scopes of work, project delivery resource requirements, cost estimates and budgets, work plans, schedules and milestones, quality control plans, and risk identification.
- Identify project delivery resources from pre-qualified lists.
- Conduct simple requests for proposals and complete bid analyses with management support.
- Recommend resources to clients.
- Lead project delivery resources and typically smaller teams, providing guidance and direction to achieve project goals.
- Implement communication plans, including meetings and written reports or meeting minutes, to keep clients and project resources informed.
- Facilitate project meetings.
- Implement project documentation governance aligned with company and client requirements; maintain accurate, timely, coordinated project data and documentation.
- Track project progress against goals, objectives, approved budgets, and approved timelines, and report status and variances.
- Create action plans to meet project objectives, budget, and schedule.
- Implement change management routines to assess change requests, make recommendations, obtain client approvals, and issue change orders.
- Assess change-request impacts to scope, budget, schedule, quality, and risk with management support.
- Use standard risk management routines with management support to identify risks, develop mitigation and contingency plans, and implement actions to reduce or eliminate risks.
Benefits
- Flexible working environment that supports work-life balance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
