Assistant Construction Project Manager

As an assistant construction project manager, you are responsible for supporting several teams, with emphasis on the project management team. You will be accountable for executing on various tasks, primarily contractual in nature. You will work along side leaders in each department including, but not limited to; Project Management, Estimation, Scheduling, Site Management and Safety. Demonstrating soft skills will be very important as you may begin to be involved with client facing activities.

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Demonstrating your ability to foster strong professional relationships both inside and outside the company will be critical in your position. You may not have official delegates, but you will be evaluated on your ability to mentor others. Developing accurate contracts and showcasing expertise with on site management will be critical in your growth and future development within the company. 

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Rockstar candidates in this position are highly accountable, highly reliable individuals. Individuals with strong integrity and initiative excel in this role. Building professional relationships is essential in this position. They must be approachable, and confident in approaching others with very strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

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Your path to success lies in your ability to handle a myriad of challenges and possibly including client interactions. You will be counted on by the senior team to deliver reliable reporting and as such, you will often be counted on and even sought out to communicate the status of certain tasks as well as an accurate picture of each project.

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Key Considerations and Requirements

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• Candidate’s project history must be relevant to the current project history of the company. 
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• Candidate is adept at identifying risk, scope gaps, and applying mitigation in contractual agreements and in real time site visits.
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• Candidate will be required to demonstrate understanding of full scope and various construction contractual agreements.
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• Strong scheduling skills with the latest software and accurately sequence of work order / phases of construction. Versed in planning ahead and mitigate any impacts to critical path.
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• Understands and demonstrates the development of  risk registers and identifying scope gaps, critical paths and applying impact analysis on risky items and their risk mitigations.
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• Candidate is accurate with quantity take offs, estimating man power, materials, indirect costs, direct costs and premiums. Candidate is also versed in negotiations when required.
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• Candidate is accustomed to be a focal point of communications between internal and external stakeholders. Candidate demonstrates the capability to instigate action from individuals or departments when need be.
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• Candidate is experienced in handling trade meetings and ensuring that the trades and vendors understand the scope of work and agree to project execution. Candidate is versed in ensuring that all trades bid appropriately and on all details, including addenda in the contracts.
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• Candidate is versed in tracking project progression, milestones, budgets, cash flows, progress reports as well as keeping tabs on cost to completion and project profitability.
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• Candidate is can support the development of baseline budgets, creating work activities, assigning costs and managing budgets. Candidate applies practical experiences to develop realistic budgets.

• Candidate is very experienced in reviewing construction drawings, marking up red flags on drawings and instigating action from architects, engineers (including whichever stakeholder are involved) to ensure contractual obligations are correct.
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• Candidate can identify value engineering activities including finding cost and time savings as well as work arounds on site conditions.
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• Candidate is versed in bid and tender activities including supporting / directing the estimation department in getting pricing and quotations from various trades, performing price / bid variance analysis and working with trades to sleuth out any anomalies in pricing (make sure all requirements are captured and pricing makes sense) as well as issuing letters of intent and tender packages.
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• Candidate is highly experienced with writing & issuing contracts.
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• Candidate is experienced with change management systems including assessing cost / budget impacts and justifying / defending or countering COs and CRs.
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• Candidate understands the politics of maintaining stable relationships while minimizing any delays or extra costs to the project.
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• Candidate has very strong English communication skills both written and verbal.
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• Candidate is able to interface directly with clients.
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• Candidate demonstrates the ability to foster relationships and mentors others.