Assistant Project Manager/Engineer

About the Role

Join a company in the plastics manufacturing industry supporting engineering, construction, facility improvement, and capital projects. This opportunity offers an early-career engineering professional hands-on exposure to the full project lifecycle, from planning and budgeting through execution, commissioning, and closeout. Working alongside experienced project leadership, you can build practical project management skills and contribute to improvements across manufacturing facilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Support engineering, construction, facility improvement, expansion, and capital projects from scope development through commissioning and closeout.
• Help develop and track project scopes, budgets, schedules, milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements.
• Coordinate day-to-day project activities, monitor progress, and flag risks, delays, and variances.
• Review engineering drawings, construction plans, specifications, and technical documentation.
• Coordinate with contractors, vendors, engineers, suppliers, operations, and other project stakeholders.
• Assist with bid packages, procurement documentation, RFIs, submittals, change orders, and project records.
• Support site visits, construction activities, inspections, quality reviews, commissioning, and turnover.
• Prepare status updates and progress reports while tracking action items, deficiencies, and project deliverables.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Completed bachelor's degree in Engineering; mechanical, civil, electrical, industrial, or manufacturing engineering is relevant.
• Professional experience supporting engineering, construction, facilities, manufacturing, infrastructure, or capital projects.
• Understanding of project planning, scheduling, budgets, milestones, and project documentation.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, technical specifications, and construction documents.
• Experience coordinating with engineers, contractors, vendors, suppliers, or other project stakeholders.
• Strong organizational, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and work onsite in Los Angeles.
• Comfort working hands-on under the direction of senior project leadership.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Approximately 2–3 years of relevant experience following graduation, ideally with consistent tenure at one employer.
• Experience as a Project Engineer, Assistant Project Manager, Engineering Project Coordinator, or Facilities Engineer.
• Exposure to manufacturing operations, facility improvements, equipment installations, or CapEx projects.
• Familiarity with construction administration, including RFIs, submittals, change orders, procurement, and closeout.
• Experience with mechanical, electrical, plumbing, or other building and facility systems.
• Proficiency with AutoCAD and familiarity with Microsoft Project, Bluebeam, Procore, Revit, or Smartsheet.
• Experience coordinating contractors, construction activities, installations, or commissioning.
• Mandarin Chinese proficiency.