Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

Assistant Project Manager

At Jacobs, we challenge what is currently accepted, so we can shape innovative and lasting solutions for tomorrow. If you’re interested in a long and rewarding career working with the industry’s best and most innovative construction and engineering professionals, then Jacobs is where you belong. We’re looking for an Assistant Project Manager to combine the skills of project engineering with team leadership, client interface, and financial management. Based in Florida, you’ll work with the Design-Build Project Manager to deliver large, complex construction projects. This position will prepare you for the next step in your career as a Construction Manager or Project Manager. As part of the design-build team, you’ll work with the best professionals in the business managing the project subcontractors and reporting to the Design-Build Project Manager.

Your role will be to coordinate subcontractors throughout construction, commissioning, closeout, and turnover to the owner and assist the Design-Build Project Manager in cost management. Following the project scope, schedules and budgets, you will ensure the project remains on task. Client presentations, weekly construction meetings, and applying critical thinking skills to resolve problems out in the field on the project are tasks associated with this role.

Here’s Also What You’ll Do:

• Assist Project Manager in all aspects of construction delivery

• Track and process Change Orders with Owner, Proposed Change Orders from subcontractors, and invoicing

• Ensure quality levels are met at trades level and assist in the overall quality management program

• Manage the receipt, storage and handling of process equipment.

• Participate in risk management and mitigation throughout the life of the project

• Manage and track project submittals, requests for changes, design changes, and nonconformance notices

• Provide input to the overall project schedule including 3-week lookahead schedules

• Manage project engineering staff

• Manage the overall closeout process

• Develop skills to become an overall Project Manager or Construction Manager

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Engineering, Construction Management, or other applicable field.

• Minimum 5 years relevant experience in construction projects.

• Experience in the delivery of municipal water, wastewater, water resources and / or conveyance type work.

• Working knowledge of construction, building systems/components and technology, contract management, project delivery methods, team building and client relationship building.

Ideally, You’ll Also Have:

• Experience in Alternative Project Delivery, including design build, progressive design build, and construction-manager-at-risk

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