What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Support Specialist position at Zachry Group?
Zachry Engineering Corporation (ZEC) is currently looking for a talented and self-motivated Project Support Specialist I to join our Omaha, NE office. As a Project Support Specialist Team member, you will be responsible for document control activities, including handling the flow of documentation to and from our clients.
Responsibilities
- Provide routine administrative services to engineering professionals working on a project team, including maintaining electronic documents from clients and suppliers.
- Maintains project record keeping system; ensure that all records management/document practices are performance in accordance with requirements.
- Assists with monitoring, tracking, and reporting on the status of project assignments to ensure time, cost and quality metrics are in line with the approved project plans
- Establish, maintain, and enforce document control procedures for engineering and project documents. This includes managing naming conventions, revision control, file types etc.
- Receive, review, log, and distribute incoming and outgoing documentation, including drawings, specifications, RFIs, submittals, transmittals, procedures, reports, and correspondence.
- Ensure documents adhere to company formatting, revision, and quality standards.
- Communicate with clients, vendors, and engineering teams regarding document requirements and submission schedules.
- Work in multiple EDMS
- Have a working knowledge of email and be able to manage basic documents using Microsoft Office Suite.
- Operate copy machines and general office equipment.
- Assist with the preparation of client meetings, reserving conference rooms, coordinating refreshments, collecting, and compiling documents, drafting correspondence, etc
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma / GED
- Must have 1-3 years of project support, document control or similar experience.
- Must be detail orientated and be able to recognize priority of deliverables for processing.
- Strong technical skills needed in the following: Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office Suite (SharePoint, Word, etc.) with intermediate to medium skills in Excel
- Must possess excellent communication and written skills
- Must have effective planning and organizational skills with the ability to work with a high degree of accuracy.
- Must have problem solving skills, to strive to understand contributing factors, work to resolve complex situations with appropriate management.
- Must be a self-starter and dependable. Able to meet committed deadlines, work independently, accountable for work, maintains focus, be punctual, and good attendance.
- Must be able to maintain a professional attitude and work as a team member
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Associate or Bachelor’s degree
- 1 - 3 years of document control / project support experience in an engineering office or similar business environment
- Experience with database entry or other Document Management Systems. Aconex is a plus.
- Comprehensive understanding of engineering documents and deliverables and can file accordingly.
- Experience with file sharing (downloading, uploading, zip files)
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Employee will be required to communicate in person, via telephone, email, video chat and software systems.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Employee will work in an office setting.
The above description covers the fundamental responsibilities of the Project Support Specialist. It shall not be construed as a complete listing of all miscellaneous, incidental, or similar duties which may be required from day-to-day.
ZACHRY GROUP is dedicated to providing a Safe and Drug Free work environment; and is an Equal Opportunity Employe