Assistant Construction Manager

Cordoba Corporation is a leading engineering and design firm based in California, specializing in education and facilities, transportation, and water and energy. We are a nationally recognized civil engineering, construction management, program management, and planning firm with a statewide presence throughout California.

About the role

The Assistant Construction Manager provides regular on-site support for the Construction Manager and should have foundational proficiency in technical construction knowledge and related management, including understanding construction documents, scheduling, assessing contractor change order requests, and cost management.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical and engineering support to the construction manager.
• Coordinates with District staff, contractors, architects, engineers, inspectors, consultants, and other construction support staff.
• Participates in, and often runs, design or construction meetings.
• Makes field checks on construction activity to determine compliance with job specifications, plans, established district standards, and Division of the State Architect (DSA) requirements.
• Reads and interprets construction plans and shop drawings.
• Assists in preparing written materials including correspondence, reports, procedures, and guidelines.
• Supports development of weekly/monthly status and photo reports for the project team.
• Reviews, estimates, negotiates, and processes construction change orders and construction field orders.
• Reviews and enforces construction and professional services contracts.
• Manages and directs contractors and outside consultants, including review of invoices and contractor applications for payment.
• Facilitates resolutions of construction and design issues.
• Coordinates with architects for timely and accurate responses to requests for information, submittals, construction change documents, etc.
• Generates and distributes meeting minutes.
• Confirms contractor’s maintenance of record drawings prior to monthly progress payments to the contractor.
• Maintains project files in both electronic and paper format and utilizes Procore.
• Manages the review of submittals for conformance to plans and specifications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience (or equivalent working knowledge/experience).
• Ability to coordinate multiple construction projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication skills; interpersonal, written, and verbal.
• Strong detail orientation and time management skills.
• Ability to lead meetings, communicate directly with owners, project stakeholders, inspectors, contractors, and architects.
• Ability to maintain productive working relationships with District staff, contractors, consultants, regulatory agencies, and the public.

Pay

$110,000–$130,000 yearly

Schedule

Onsite, full-time

Location

Glendora, CA