Assistant Project Manager

DEPARTMENT: OPERATIONS

REPORTS TO: OPERATIONS VICE PRESIDENT/DBU/PROJECT MANAGER

Compensation for this Position:$86500 Annually Depending on Experience

OVERVIEW:

The Assistant Project Manager assists the Project Manager and field team to ensure customer satisfaction through taking accountability to complete projects on time and on budget. This position can also act as the overall leader of electrical projects assigned.

General Responsibilities

• Maintain open communication lines with all working relationships
• Follow up to ensure items for which the job is accountable are performed
• Earn and maintain customers trust
• Uphold the core values of the organization
• Work well with others to accomplish the mission of the organization and of the job

Specific Responsibilities

Leadership

• Take responsibility for productivity safety and safety audits. Performs job walks to ensure:
• Employees are wearing Personal Protective Equipment and tools
• Employees are working safely and productively
• Tools and material are located in close proximity to work performed
• The installation is up to standard

Capable of overseeing a stand-alone project or multiple other PEs on a larger project

Process Improvement

• Engage and help to develop new Encore standards and processes and hold others accountable to them
• Participate in Project Manager meetings
• Help to develop phase codes for the project

Risk Management

• Understand project budget and forecasting
• Manage subcontractors and vendors at financial level
• Capable of estimating change orders on a project
• Assist project team with labor cost codes for the project
• Work with Project Manager to write the commodity purchase order from the installation estimate
• Ensure all parties to the job (at all levels of the job) apply their time into the proper phase code for time keeping
• Understand material procurement process (quoting procuring receiving tracking invoicing)

Customer Service

Ability to have fierce conversations with customers and other trade partners

Take responsibility for submittals Assist with submittal creation and procurement of material

Make certain purchase orders and subcontracts are written and that the project is current on changing orders to the purchase orders

Coordinate and maintain relationships with all project stakeholders

Ensure proper maintenance of construction documents

Actively engage in any required meetings

Ensure the proper permit is obtained in the jurisdiction for the job location. Understand the permitting process and what the wiring methods are in different jurisdiction

Responsible for project closeout documentation

Prior to completion involves the service department so they know the job and are introduced to the owner to maintain the relationship

Assist closing out the job with vendors

General

• Work with project team to set up the job
• Accurate and consistent man loading of your project scope
• Understanding of how to effectively utilize support service groups
• Work with the project team to build an information sheet and map to the jobsite
• Assisting Project Manager as necessary in performing cost to complete on a monthly basis
• Strong communication with the entire project team (Internal and External)
• Ability to navigate Project Management System

Other duties as may be assigned

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Knowledge of:

• The construction process from scheduling to manpower to the labor materials and equipment required for installation
• Constructability and the construction process
• Algebra and geometry
• Statistics
• Financial math

Skill in:

• Acting as a self-starter
• Good organization skills
• Spatial orientation
• Identifying scope gaps in construction documents
• Customer management
• Listening
• Speaking intelligently
• Estimating resources needed to complete required tasks
• Adapting to new and changing requirements environments and/or information
• Managing people and processes
• Managing complex projects breaking them down to their component levels
• Using communication software
• Effective written and oral communication sufficient to be able to elicit and communicate information and achieve understanding (Technical/Business writing)
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with customers vendors consultants management and employees
• Operating a computer
• Operate Microsoft office products
• Organizing work to accomplish tasks
• Reading and writing
• Prioritizing and reprioritizing to meet job needs
• Identifying and managing risk
• Problem solving
• Tracking numbers and bits of data relevant to the work assignment

Ability to:

• Retain and access critical information from memory
• Conceptualize and visualize the project for constructability means and methods
• Think on your feet
• Understand when to speak and when not to speak
• Be personally detached from ideas (no ego)
• See things from multiple perspectives
• Ability to coordinate effectively with all ENCORE Support Services
• Understand and contribute to the project turnover process

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Driving
• Sitting
• Climbing
• Lifting (up to 50 lbs)
• Standing
• Stooping
• Vision acuity (near and far)
• Walking

REQUIREMENTS:

High School Diploma or equivalent is required. A degree in related field or Journeymans License with Five years of progressive experience in the electrical trade preferred.

Encore Electric Inc. is an EOE including disability/vets.

Required Experience:

IC