Balfour Beatty

Assistant Project Manager - Special Projects Group

Joining Balfour Beatty as an Assistant Project Manager in our Atlanta Special Projects Group you will play a key role in supporting the management of day-to-day project operations, coordinating with internal teams and external partners, ensuring the success of our Safety/Zero Harm culture and ensuring that critical project documentation and communication flow is maintained.

You will have a significant runway for continued development, learning and career growth as well as exposure to a wide range of complex high-value marquee projects.

Essential Functions

  • Collaborates with scheduling, superintendent, subcontractors, and suppliers to create a construction schedule.
  • Develop an organizational and responsibilities matrix at the start of each project and determine the resources needed for the project (e.g., people, tools, equipment, materials, internal and external services).
  • Review the contract documents with all project participants (e.g., customers, employees, subcontractors, suppliers, government regulators, utilities) to ensure work is completed on time and within budget.
  • Coordinate and deliver all requirements for subcontractors and suppliers to meet project schedules.
  • Responsible for project administration and daily operations. Prepares and maintains the project schedule, milestone dates, and close-out checklist. Reviews with project staff each quarter and assigns responsibilities, execution, and follow-up plans.
  • Ensures that project site and company assets are secure and maintains a safe and respectful working environment at all times by implementing programs for safety and loss prevention, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), risk management, training, and quality control. Implements and facilitates project specific SAP.
  • Develops and completes monthly Projected Final Cost Report (PFR) and Labor Cost Report (LCR) projections on time.
  • Builds effective relationships with customers, design team, subcontractors, suppliers, and user groups that reflect and support company core values and meets or exceeds the customer’s expectations.

What you will need

  • Minimum 2+ years of experience managing complex interior renovation, or adaptive reuse projects in commercial or institutional settings.
  • Proven experience leading small ground to medium ground up commercial construction projects.
  • Strong knowledge of building systems (MEP), finishes, and sequencing of renovation work.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
  • Proven experience with project manager software (Constructware, P6, Timberline, etc.).

What you will get

As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

  • Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
  • Health Savings Account
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
  • Vacation Time
  • Sick Time
  • Holidays
  • Paid Volunteer time
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Employee Referral Bonus

About us

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm®, we are challenging the construction industry’s assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation’s largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Accessibility:

Phone: (214) 468-4700

Email:BBTalent@balfourbeattyus.com

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