Associate Project Manager

About the Role

We are seeking an Associate Project Manager for our Indianapolis, IN office. This role involves supporting Project Managers or Senior Project Managers in their duties, ensuring safe, economic, and timely project completion, and developing skills for successful project management. On smaller or less complex projects, the Associate Project Manager may lead project coordination, including supervisory review of schedules, project status, progress, and cost projections.

Key Responsibilities

Safety First

• Work with the safety department to gain working knowledge of applicable federal OSHA standards.
• Perform preliminary jobsite hazard analyses and ongoing jobsite safety review walks, reviewing findings with the Superintendent and Regional General Superintendent or Field Coordinator.
• Support the project management team in providing necessary labor, materials, equipment, and other resources for safe project execution.

Project Pursuit, as requested

• Participate in select client sales meetings with the Project Manager.
• Prepare conceptual and detailed estimates for supervisor review.
• Participate in owner contract negotiations and contract exhibit development with the Project Manager.

Pre-Construction Production

• Assist with and/or manage the design aspects of assigned projects, ensuring budget, schedule, quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Monitor the preparation of proposal and working drawings for assigned projects.
• Assist with writing detailed specifications and submittal log development.
• Support the subcontractor bidding process with bid package development, coordination of bid reviews, and writing subcontractor award recommendations.
• Review construction and shop drawings, facilitating the shop drawing review process.

Construction Management

• Assist with and/or manage the construction and close-out of assigned projects, ensuring budget, schedule, quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with the job site Superintendent on drawings, budgets, schedules, and other project-related matters.
• Coordinate, document, and distribute minutes for weekly project team meetings.
• Confer with supervisor when reviewing schedule updates, cost expenditure, and client sales decisions.
• Share job cost responsibility by monitoring budgets and schedules, resolving problems, and reporting cost projections to supervisor.
• Negotiate owner change orders.
• Negotiate, write (with Project Coordinator), and approve subcontracts and change orders for Project Manager review.
• Work with governmental agencies to aid project success or resolve job problems.

Project Management Skill Development

• Demonstrate effective teamwork and establish successful interpersonal relationships with co-workers and other disciplines within the company.
• Strive to optimize team effectiveness and help coordinate the project team.
• Initiate and document meetings to keep supervisor informed of project status and progress.
• Acquire understanding of building code and design.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• No specific technologies or software are explicitly mentioned in the provided text.

Qualifications

• Construction professional experience.
• Ability to maintain all project correspondence and documentation.
• Capability for safe, economic, and timely project completion.
• Development of interpersonal and technical skills necessary for successful project management.