Assistant Project Manager

About the Company

WJ Palmisano (WJP) is a rapidly scaling organization emerging as a nationally recognized leader in construction through our unique Renegade mindset focused on innovation, creativity, and culture. WJP brands currently include Impetus Building, Impetus Infrastructure, RNGD, Palmisano Foundation, Renegade Academy, WJP Real Estate, and Emergent Properties. The team is made up of a highly engaged group of seasoned professionals and emerging leaders. We are creators who believe that what we build drives the growth of our cities and that to fulfill our mission, we must constantly challenge the old way of doing things. Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, we thrive on building communities, building teams, building leaders and growing the business throughout the Southeast region with additional teams currently in Nashville and Huntsville.

About the Role

The Assistant Project Manager provides support to the project team on all construction management aspects of assigned projects.

Primary Responsibilities

• Relationships - Establish and maintain an effective and professional working relationship with owners, architects, engineers, subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Schedules - Participate in the development of the baseline CPM with the superintendent and project manager; track progress weekly and update schedule not less than monthly, using SureTrak/P3; quantify project impacts, using contemporaneous schedule analysis; and satisfy notice provisions, where applicable.
• Buy-out - Conduct buy-out and issue subcontracts for scopes of work assigned by PM, perform job cost allocation for subcontract and purchase order awards.
• Requests for Information - Process Forma/subcontractor RFI’s timely, maintain log and review status to expedite critical RFI’s, coordinate and distribute to affected parties, and provide timely notice of cost/time impact resulting from RFI response.
• Changes to the Work - Identify and provide timely notice of changed conditions, prepare Change Order Proposals (COP’s) with PM review and oversight, maintain COP log, and generate Subcontracts.
• Modifications - Perform job cost allocations and update as-built drawings.
• Coordination - Assist superintendent with subcontractor/supplier coordination, expedite material deliveries, and identify special inspection requirements.
• Payment - Participate in the development of the Schedule of Values with the project manager, compile necessary data for timely submission of monthly applications for payment, assist PM in review of subcontractor/supplier payment release, insure proper cost coding of miscellaneous invoices.
• Punchlist - Generate punchlist of incomplete/deficient work items and distribute to applicable subcontractors and follow-up for timely completion, conduct backcheck, and secure project acceptance by architect and owner

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Construction Management, Business, or related field.
• 2 years of commercial construction industry experience.
• Proficiency with software, including MS Office Suite, construction project management software.

Core Competencies

• Exemplifies Impetus's core values: Safety Always, Renegade Mentality, Sweep Floors, Build Relationships, Absolute Integrity.
• Insatiable Curiosity - Always asking "why" to find the root cause, allowing the right problem to be solved.
• Driven to collaborate and innovate.
• Organization and Planning - Takes a methodical approach to planning daily activities.
• Interpersonal Skills - Establishes cooperative, collaborative, trusting relationships with co-workers and business contacts.
• Communication - Communicates with co-workers and business contacts effectively through written, verbal, and non-verbal communication, as well as excellent listening.
• Tech Savvy -The ability to adapt quickly to rapidly changing technology is key.