Assistant Project Manager - Field - IND

Summary:
The Assistant Project Manager-Field assists the Project Manager with multiple traffic control projects by supervising, controlling and monitoring all aspects of a traffic control project. This position requires both work from the office and work alongside others in the field to provide hands-on leadership.
Duties & Responsibilities:

• Plan, direct, and coordinate all activities of the project to ensure that goals are accomplished within budget.
• Assist in establishing a project work plan that includes essential elements of the job with milestones and potential issues.
• Coordinate with other members of the department to allocate personnel to staff each project.
• Manage jobs to ensure contractor, motorist, and employee safety, as well as job profitability.
• Correct and approve the field personnel times for submission to Payroll daily.
• Approve, adjust, and submit Field Logs from the previous day.
• Create, edit, and maintain the Traffic Control reports as needed.
• Create work orders and schedule daily rental deliveries and pickups.
• Perform and submit take-offs for Project Managers as needed and requested.
• Manage and complete utility locates as requested.
• Help resolve quantity differences by working through quantity verification reports.
• Work in the field on job sites as needed to supervise laborers and to safely and efficiently set up, maintain, and remove traffic control devices as required.
• Other projects and initiatives that drive organizational goals and results.

Supervisor Responsibilities:

• This position supervises union laborers.

Education, Certifications & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management or Civil Engineering is a plus.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and construction software.
• For Hire license endorsement and clean driving record is required.
• Be a member of LIUNA

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Must have strong problem-solving skills and a desire to create solutions.
• Maintain a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Must have the ability to work in sensitive and confidential situations.
• Prior experience working under tight deadlines with changing priorities.
• Ability to anticipate work needs and follow through with minimum direction.
• Excellent organization and time management skills.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from internal or external customers.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, and be self-motivated with a high sense of urgency.
• Ability to establish and maintain rapport and effective communication with diverse levels within the company and external organizations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions with the ability to deal with abstract and concrete variables.

Physical Demands & Work Environment:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit for long periods at a computer and use hands to finger, handle, or feel, walk, reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, talk, and hear. While performing the duties of this job in the field, the employee will be required to stand for long periods, load, and unload safety traffic equipment, therefore using hands to finger, handle, or feel, walk, reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to move and/or lift up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• This position will work in an office setting and travel to off-site locations and therefore require wearing all PPE depending on the circumstance which may include dust mask, safety glasses, hard hat, ear protection, safety vest, and/or safety-toed footwear. At times client contract-driven PPE may also be required.