Project Assistant

Description

LSW Engineers is a consulting engineering firm specializing in mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and technology systems. Since 1947, LSW has built a longstanding reputation for delivering reliable, innovative, and energy-efficient engineering solutions across a diverse range of facilities, including educational, medical, institutional, mission-critical, aviation, and commercial projects.

Description:

Provide support for the project management staff on multiple projects from preliminary design through construction phases by assisting with support task associated with the project, including communications with team members, facilitating meetings, assisting with helping organize and prepare documents and reports. This position requires interaction with the firm’s project team members (designers and engineers from the mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and technology systems disciplines), as well as architects, consultants, clients, and contractors to identify project requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with managing multiple priorities and projects, meeting tight deadlines.
• Assist with project planning.
• Assist with maintaining project management reporting software; creates, updates and distributes project/client files and generates schedules and reports.
• Schedule meetings and maintain meeting minutes.
• Document control and organization.
• Tracks project budgets and may assist in client invoicing.
• Assists with client and contractor communications.
• Supports change order management, estimates and quality control.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree or 2+ years of relevant experience
• Must be highly organized and process driven to coordinate multiple projects efficiently.
• Working knowledge of Excel, OneNote, Word, etc.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work well within a team structure.
• Ability to learn & grow professionally.
• Demonstrate a strong work ethic.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Project, Planner or Similar
• Working knowledge of Smartsheet
• Experience using ProCore
• Experience using BlueBeam
• Full Professional Proficiency in Mandarin

About LSW Engineers

Every building you've ever walked into works because of systems you never see.

The air that stays at the right temperature. The power that never blinks. The water that runs clean. The systems that keep a hospital's operating room sterile or a data center's servers cool. That is what LSW Engineers designs. We are a mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering firm, and for decades we have been the team working on the other side of the wall, making sure the buildings people depend on actually function.

Our projects span hospitals, airports, schools, government buildings, data centers, and the advanced manufacturing facilities powering what comes next. Someone has to plan it, coordinate it, and bring it to life, and that is where our team comes in, engineers, project managers, and the people who keep it all moving together.