Assistant Construction Project Manager-K-12 Projects (Anticipated Opening)

Turner & Townsend•Portland, OR

3d•$100,000 - $125,000

About The Position

Turner & Townsend Heery is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to support large K-12 construction projects. The role leads individual, multi-disciplined construction project solutions for clients and has direct accountability for project delivery. The position manages project activities across planning, design, construction, occupancy, and closeout, including budget, schedule, procurement, quality, and risk.

Requirements

3–5 years of construction experience.
Bachelor’s degree or related construction experience.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong organizational and analytical skills.
Ability to provide efficient, timely, reliable, and courteous customer service.
Ability to effectively present information.
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.

Nice To Haves

Working knowledge of MS Project.
Knowledge of leases, contracts, and construction practices.
Municipal or education experience.
Ground-up, tenant improvement (TI), or renovation construction experience.

Responsibilities

Manage budget, schedule, procurement, quality, and risk for individual real estate projects from planning through 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, resource requirements, cost estimates and budgets, work plans, schedules and milestones, quality controls, 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 smaller teams, providing guidance and direction to achieve project goals.
Implement communication plans, prepare written reports and meeting minutes, and keep clients and project resources informed.
Facilitate project meetings.
Implement project documentation governance aligned with company and client requirements.
Ensure project data integrity and that documentation is accurate, timely, and coordinated.
Track project progress against goals, objectives, approved budgets, and timelines; report status and variances.
Create action plans to meet objectives, budget, and schedule.
Implement change-management routines, assess change requests, make recommendations, obtain client approvals, and issue change orders.
Assess change-request impacts on scope, budget, schedule, quality, and risk with management support.
Implement standard risk-management routines with management support, including identifying risks, developing mitigation and contingency plans, and taking action to reduce or eliminate risks.