Assistant Project Manager

Assistant Project Manager - Commercial Construction

Commercial General Contractor located in Alexandria VA seeks a Full Time Construction Assistant Project Manager. This candidate will work closely with the Project Management Team under the Director of Project Management.

Our diverse team focuses primarily on hospitality, restaurants, tenant builds, multi-family, and other projects. Candidates should be organized, motivated, and driven self-starters with strong communication skills who are eager to learn and advance towards a Project Manager role. We hire detail-oriented, creative and resourceful people who have a have a “think outside the box” attitude and want to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Support Project Managers in estimating and proposal phase of projects, organizing bid documents, preparing scopes and take-off, and soliciting subcontractor bids.
• Prepare and organize submittals, RFI’s, update logs, change orders, meeting minutes, and close out documentation.
• Maintain filing structure for project documents, including extensive use of Procore.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation for field use by the superintendent team.
• Attend site meetings with the project team, architects, and owners.
• Assist with preparation and tracking of monthly AIA invoices, Release of Liens for subcontractors and owner payments.
• Assist with subcontractor vetting, onboarding, and compliance with requirements such as insurance.
• Organize and process both written and verbal communications between project managers, subcontractors, vendors and clients.

This position performs a variety of additional tasks as needed and will be assigned additional duties as the need arises. A sample of original writing demonstrating some understanding of the construction process will be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 1 - 2 years of construction-related experience, preferably with some MEP background (Note that the salary range is highly dependent on the relevance of experience to our work. Only candidates with experience as an APM or similar role working for a GC are eligible for the upper end of the scale.)
• Strong organizational skills
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite is required
• Experience with Procore, Building Connected, and Microsoft Project are a plus