Headquartered in Conyers, Georgia, Batchelor & Kimball takes pride in partnering with our clients to deliver excellent results from engineering and construction to operations and maintenance. We offer design/build and turnkey construction services, including teaming with selected subcontractors for electrical and general construction. If you are looking to grow your career and thrive in a team environment, then we invite you to apply for this position.
There’s not a lot of BS here, and not a lot of turnover. Good people work at Batchelor & Kimball. We’re good at our jobs, and good to each other. We have high expectations because the work is challenging, but we know the most valuable thing about the work is the people who do it. If this sounds like a good fit for you, we’d like to meet you!
We are seeking an Assistant Project Manager who will assist the Project and Senior Project Managers with the administrative tasks surrounding the design phase, pre-construction and construction phase project management including managing scope, scheduling, budgeting, contracts, out-to-bid process, and assist with overseeing the work of the design team. All candidates must meet the following expectations and be able to work independently with minimal oversight.
Job Responsibilities/Accountabilities:
- Work directly with Project Management team to help manage and estimate construction projects
- Completes engineering projects by organizing and controlling project elements.
- Reviews drawings for correctness.
- Assembles miscellaneous details necessary to prepare job bid proposals.
- Develops relationships with sub-contractors and interacts with them to secure necessary information for job bids.
- Support Project Manager in collecting the necessary information to complete the monthly Work in Progress, (WIP) report.
- Assist with projecting and adherence to job budget and timing of tasks.
- Maintains project schedule by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and surfacing issues to be resolved. May interface with sub-contracts as necessary to meet schedule
- Controls project costs by recommending expenditures and administering contractor contracts.
- Prepares project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends, recommending actions.
- Travel to job site location when necessary to review progress and provide solutions to challenges.
- Assist in project timeline and deadlines
- Maintains a safe and clean working environment by enforcing procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Maintains project database by updating our construction systems
- Be available to support the Project Manager to answer any customer inquiry.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Supervisory / Budgetary / External Communication Responsibility
- This is an individual contributing role. Will be responsible for communicating primarily internally with the potential of interfacing with sub-contractors.
- May participate in meetings with GC but normally in an observation capacity.
Knowledge, skill and ability requirements (minimum competencies required for job performance)
- Able to manage multiple, competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment
- Leadership abilities to communicate and influence others
- Positive attitude focused on customers and clients
- Superb personal and communication skills with the ability to successfully interact at all levels to the organization including stakeholders, developers, and contractors.
- Exceptional problem solving, administrative, prioritization, and multi-tasking skills.
- Established ability to work self-sufficiently or as part of a team to produce best results.
- Excellent ability in Microsoft Projects, Office, Excel, Word, etc.
Prior work experience and educational requirements
- BA/Associates degree preferred or equivalent work experience
- Ability to read, interpret, and understand construction drawings
- Working knowledge of project budgeting and pricing of materials and labor
- 2+ years of experience in the construction field and may lead projects that are up to $2.5M in scope.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- The physical demands are those associated with working in a typical office environment and miscellaneous field travel.
NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The duties described may be changed or reassigned at the discretion of management, and the employee may be required to perform duties that are not listed in the job description.
We offer our employees a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package and are always looking for individuals with the talent and skills required to contribute to our continued growth and success.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
