Assistant Project Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Project Management, or a related field required.
• 2+ years of experience supporting construction project management, utility projects, infrastructure projects, engineering projects, project controls, or capital project delivery.
• Strong understanding of project coordination, documentation management, cost tracking, scheduling support, reporting, and stakeholder communication.
• Ability to support project managers across multiple active projects and priorities.
• Ability to work effectively with project managers, engineers, schedulers, contractors, construction staff, client representatives, and other stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Valid driver’s license required.
• Ability to travel to project sites as needed, typically within a reasonable distance from the reporting location.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing project needs.

Nice To Haves

• 2–5 years of experience in a construction project management or utility project support role preferred.
• Experience with high-voltage transmission line, substation, distribution, utility, or energy infrastructure projects preferred but not required.
• Strong interest in developing deeper knowledge of substations, transmission lines, networks, telecommunications, and utility construction.
• Experience with project management, scheduling, document control, financial, or client reporting systems preferred.
• PMP, CAPM, or similar project management certification is a plus but not required.
• Utility client or consulting experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support Senior Project Managers with planning, execution, monitoring, and closeout of transmission, substation, and related utility infrastructure projects.
• Assist with scope review, project work plan development, and coordination with engineering, client stakeholders, construction teams, and subject matter experts.
• Support development of outage requests, sequenced work plans, and construction coordination activities.
• Coordinate with engineering teams to support material planning, major and minor equipment procurement, and project readiness.
• Support environmental and non-environmental permitting review, tracking, and submittal coordination.
• Assist with development of RFP packages for construction bid events, including scopes of work, baseline schedules, permitting packages, and supporting documentation.
• Support contractor bid evaluation, recommendation packages, and award coordination as needed.
• Participate in pre-construction meetings, progress meetings, and regular project coordination discussions.
• Help drive schedule and project progress during design, procurement, construction, and closeout phases.
• Meet regularly with schedulers to support updates and maintenance of detailed Primavera P6 project schedules.
• Support project budget management, financial forecast updates, accrual tracking, and cost reporting.
• Track project action items, deliverables, milestones, risks, issues, procurement concerns, and open decisions.
• Support contract administration activities, including invoice review support, change order tracking, field change documentation, and contractor coordination.
• Navigate client systems for financial updates, contract management, project documentation, reporting, and project controls support.
• Prepare and support internal and client-facing project reports, meeting materials, dashboards, and status updates.
• Report on construction progress, cost and schedule metrics, procurement issues, safety or environmental concerns, design questions, potential impacts, and items requiring escalation.
• Maintain organized project files, logs, trackers, reports, and closeout documentation.
• Build and maintain clear communication between project site teams, project office teams, client stakeholders, contractors, and internal leadership.
• Support project closeout activities, including pre-energization support, final documentation, punch list tracking, lessons learned, and turnover packages.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Health benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Company 401(k) match