Associate Project Manager
About The Position
Evapco is seeking an Associate Project Manager for its Bridgewater, New Jersey office. The role assists a Project Manager in managing large, complex engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) projects from pre-contract award through final handover. The projects are custom-designed and turnkey, and may include steel structures, tanks, ducting and piping, heat exchangers, rotating mechanical and electrical equipment, instrumentation and control, worldwide transportation, and sometimes field erection. The Associate Project Manager helps ensure projects meet technical, commercial, and contractual commitments while maintaining customer satisfaction. The position supports project execution, monitoring, reporting, stakeholder coordination, financial and contractual oversight, and project closeout. Domestic and international travel to client and supplier facilities and job sites is approximately 50% of the role.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering.
- At least 2 years of experience executing and managing engineering and construction projects in Power, Energy, or similar markets.
- Excellent verbal, written, listening, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to anticipate needs and prioritize with urgency, drive, and energy.
- Ability to understand project budgets and key financial metrics and protect the company’s bottom line.
- Ability and willingness to perform project execution tasks with minimal delegation.
- Self-motivated, analytical, results-oriented, quick-learning, and capable of solving problems.
- Ability to process substantial information and execute multiple assignments without sacrificing efficiency or work quality.
- Ability to work actively as part of a team and share in workload execution.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective client and supplier relationships to foster cooperation, prompt payment, and follow-on work.
- Experience with contractual legal terms, commercial issues, and technical specifications.
Responsibilities
- Develop a thorough understanding of the contract and relevant project technical specifications.
- Provide strong, effective, and decisive project support.
- Guide the execution framework to ensure project quality, technical conformance, timeliness, and profitability.
- Establish and maintain project monitoring and reporting systems for documentation, key deliverables, delivery strategy, risks, dates, and costs.
- Coordinate closely with project team members, including Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Construction, Finance, and Legal.
- Participate in developing and/or reviewing principal project document deliverables.
- Verify that project execution complies with applicable policies, procedures, and project standards.
- Travel to client and major supplier facilities and job sites, domestically and internationally, as needed; travel is approximately 50% of the time.
- Create reports and deliver presentations to senior Evapco and client management.
- Monitor supplier obligations before approving invoice payment.
- Facilitate resolution of disputes between the company and its clients and suppliers.
- Prepare a project closeout and lessons-learned report at completion.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Employee Stock Ownership Program
- Profit-sharing bonus paid twice per year
- Voluntary employee retirement savings plan
- Paid holidays
- Paid vacation
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Bereavement pay
- Company-paid basic life insurance equivalent to base salary, with an option for supplemental life insurance
- Paid sick leave
- Long-term disability
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
