Assistant Project Manager

Assistant Project Manager

Are you ready to lead transformative infrastructure projects in the heart of the nation's capital? We're seeking a skilled Assistant Project Manager to oversee the final design and planning phases of major heavy civil rail initiatives. In this role, you'll coordinate scope reviews, prepare cost estimates, and negotiate contracts with consultants, while directing multidisciplinary teams through technical evaluations, design reviews, and construction planning. You'll play a key role in managing change orders, ensuring schedule compliance, and driving engineering solutions in the field, all while collaborating with contractors, consultants, and agency stakeholders to deliver high-impact transit projects on time and within budget. This is a long-term, full-time, hybrid position located in Washington DC.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates the review of scope of work for final designs prepared by consultants; prepares independent cost estimates for the final design effort and negotiates contacts with general consultants to perform the final design.
• Directs and controls the other consultants during the design and planning phases of a construction project by reviewing and analyzing designs, drawings, life-cycle costs, and specifications.
• Controls and coordinates technical reviews of shop and working drawings for projects.
• Confers periodically with contractors, consultants and Owner's officials concerning construction plans, specifications, costs, unusual conditions, and work coordination.
• Analyzes design and construction change orders, claims and supplemental agreements; assists in negotiating changes with the section design consultants and contractors.
• Recommends appropriate changes in contractor schedules for completion of the project within time constraints and reviews and recommends variations from plans and specifications. Prepare activity reports to describe the changes to the project.
• Develops or obtains engineering and administrative data necessary for the planning, scheduling, and control of the project. Controls design costs and schedules for assigned sections.
• Secures approvals from Owner's operating department on final design as well as construction contract documents; schedules presentations for the consultants to brief Owner's operating department at the preliminary, intermediate, and final submittals of the final design; and obtains operating department's approval of the construction contract documents prior to advertisement of contract.
• Makes timely field inspections for effective performance of construction activities and conformance with plans and specifications.
• Investigate and analyze field, cost, reliability, and safety problems. Develop and implement engineering solutions to the problems identified.
• Reviews and updates construction records and reports periodically for effective control of project information. Reviews, analyzes, and prepares the documentation required for staff summaries.
• Supervises work of others, including planning, assigning, scheduling, and reviewing work per quality standards. Plans organizational structure and job content.

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Compensation Details

The salary range listed for this role is $104k-$166 / yr ($50-$80 / hr.) The final salary offered is based on multiple factors and is thoughtfully aligned with each candidate's level of experience, breadth of skills, total education achieved, certifications / licenses that have been obtained, etc.

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