Healthcare Assistant Project Manager
About The Position
The Assistant Project Manager will support the delivery of healthcare capital improvement, renovation, expansion, and new construction projects as part of an owner’s representative team. Working with project managers and other project professionals, this person will help coordinate design and construction activities, monitor project controls, and support collaboration among clients, consultants, contractors, vendors, and healthcare stakeholders. The role is suited to someone with experience supporting healthcare or similarly complex construction projects and an understanding of work in active and occupied facilities. The position supports projects through planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout. It also involves project documentation and controls, stakeholder coordination, construction activities in operating healthcare environments, and coordination of commissioning, equipment installation or relocation, utility shutdowns, phased occupancy, and turnover. The position is not eligible for employment sponsorship.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, building sciences, or a related field.
- At least 4 years of relevant project management, construction management, or project engineering experience; healthcare, hospital, pharmaceutical, laboratory, life sciences, or other complex facility experience is preferred.
- Experience supporting projects through multiple phases of the project lifecycle, including design and construction.
- Working knowledge of project budgets, timelines, change management, contracts, and project controls.
- Strong organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify potential project issues and assist in developing solutions.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and project or construction management software.
Nice To Haves
- Experience as part of an owner’s representative or PM/CM team.
- Experience with renovations or construction within active or occupied healthcare facilities.
- Familiarity with healthcare construction considerations, including Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA), Interim Life Safety Measures (ILSM), infection prevention, commissioning, phased occupancy, and facility turnover.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Procore, Bluebeam, or comparable project management platforms.
- Relevant professional certifications such as PMP, CCM, LEED AP, or EIT.
Responsibilities
- Support the project manager in planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout of healthcare capital projects.
- Coordinate with architects, engineers, contractors, consultants, vendors, facilities teams, and client stakeholders.
- Monitor design and construction activities for compliance with contract requirements, project objectives, quality standards, and applicable requirements.
- Assist with project budgets, forecasts, schedules, cost reporting, change orders, purchase orders, invoices, and contractor pay applications.
- Track project milestones, risks, and action items, and escalate potential concerns related to cost, schedule, quality, or operational concerns.
- Support project meetings and maintain project documentation, including meeting minutes, progress reports, logs, and correspondence.
- Review drawings, specifications, RFIs, submittals, change requests, and contractor documentation.
- Assist with procurement, bid evaluations, contractor coordination, and contract administration.
- Support construction activities in active healthcare environments while minimizing impacts to patients, staff, facility operations, and continuity of care.
- Coordinate commissioning, equipment installation or relocation, utility shutdowns, phased occupancy, and project turnover with project teams.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with clients, consultants, contractors, and project stakeholders.
Benefits
- Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and transit and parking where applicable
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment
- 401(k) Plan
- Retirement Counseling
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Back-Up Dependent Care
- Parental Leave
- Continuing Education Program
- Professional Licensure and Society Memberships
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
