Assistant Project Manager

Cordoba Corporation • Los Angeles, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Cordoba Corporation is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to join our Facilities Sector, supporting California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) within the Facilities Services and Maintenance & Operations (M&O) environment. This role is ideal for a hands-on, process-minded individual who can coordinate small capital projects, tenant improvements, and minor construction activities while working directly with trades, vendors, and campus stakeholders. This position is a boots-on-the-ground coordinator who understands how work should be sequenced, communicates effectively with multiple trades, and helps build and refine processes, including the use of the TMA work order system. The Assistant Project Manager will serve as a key support resource for M&O, ensuring work is organized, scheduled, and executed smoothly.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, construction management, architecture, or any related field
• 7+ years minimum experience in the construction industry as a project engineer or similar, including major capital projects
• Excellent communication skills and professional attitude
• Experience providing design, technical and administrative support during the preconstruction phase, construction phase and closeout phase
• Ability to independently review change order requests for merit and fair pricing and prepare change orders for processing
• Ability to prepare project files for CSU system audit at project completion

Nice To Haves

• Institutional/Higher Ed experience preferred but not required
• CSU experience is a plus but not required
• Experience working for a general contractor on large construction projects is a plus

Responsibilities

• Provide design oversight, technical and administrative support during the preconstruction phase, construction phase and closeout phase.
• Responsible for project document control, circulating, receiving, tracking, and maintaining organized document files, i.e. Review plans, meeting minutes, RFIs, submittmits, change orders, ASIs, schedules, etc.
• Responsible for management of review comments from stakeholders, i.e. circulating design documents for review, collecting review comments, compiling, vetting, tracking, etc. to ensure issues are addressed.
• Assist with change order management. The APM shall be able to independently review change order requests for merit and fair pricing and prepare change orders for processing.
• Manage the closeout and turn over process.
• Assist to prepare project files for CSU system audit at project completion.
• Site conditions verification and support as needed.
• Responsible for setting up meetings as needed, note taking and follow-up.

Benefits

• Multiple medical and dental insurance plans
• Vision insurance
• Paid AD&D and life insurance
• 401k with an industry leading employer match
• Generous vacation and sick leave accruals
• 9 paid holidays
• Other forms of paid time off
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA’s) including medical care reimbursement, dependent care reimbursement, and commuter benefit plans
• Employee assistance program
• Well-being benefits that include stress management, nutrition, and financial well-being

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees