Turner & Townsend Heery is seeking an Assistant Project Manager responsible for medium to large sized projects for our office's Chicago-area public school and government clients.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Initiating, coordinating, managing, and accomplishing the design for all assigned projects.
- Ensures compliance with Design Standards, Code Compliance, Sustainability Requirements and provides Construction Phasing and Implementation.
- Manages all facets of project management (budget, schedule, procurement, quality & risk) for projects.
- Demonstrates capability to read, understand and apply standard to complex documents affecting design projects, including but not limited to agreements/contracts, leases, work letters, project charters, surveys and drawings.
- Develops Design Task Orders based on approved scope.
- Gathers design team proposals, reviews for compliance with Task Order, reviews cost proposals and man-hour projections, schedule milestones, insurance requirements and other legal requirements.
- Manage Submittal and Review Process: Typical process includes Program Validation, Basis of Design, Design Documents includes 35% / Schematic Design, 65% / Design Development, 95% Construction Documents (Drawings and Specifications) and the 100% Issue for Bid Sets.
- Implements communication plan for meetings and written reports/meeting minutes to keep client and project resources informed.
- Facilitates project meetings.
- Implement project documentation governance aligned with company and client requirements.
- Ensure project data integrity and documentation is accurate, timely and coordinated.
- Tracks progress of each project against goals, objectives, approved budgets, approved timelines.
- Reports status and variances.
- Creates action plans to meet objectives, budget and schedule.
- Implements change management routines to assess change requests, make recommendations, secure client approvals, and issue change orders.
- Assesses change requests to determine impacts to scope, budget, schedule, quality and risk.
- Demonstrates a knowledge of projects & project management within the context of business results (business case, larger economic implications, business risk, etc).
- Other duties as assigned.
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable