Assistant Project Manager

About the role

HDR is seeking an Assistant Project Manager for our Building Engineering Services Business Group in downtown Chicago, IL. The team consists of core services in Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Structural, and Site Civil Engineering, with a focus on Mission Critical projects such as Healthcare, Science and Technology, Justice, Power Distribution, and Transportation. The Assistant Project Manager will support the project management tasks including proposal generation, quality control, risk assessment, and on-time design deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Cook up work of single or multidiscipline teams throughout the project's life cycle (from development and initiation to close-out), while under supervision of a Project Manager
• Responsible for many aspects of a small project or a single aspect of a larger project
• Produce and coordinate several projects concurrently
• Per the client contract requirements, APM's will be required to work from the sites at all times, applicants shall be willing to spend extended periods on site
• Coordinate staffing and workload through entire project life cycle, and ensure completion of deliverables on schedule
• Track financial aspects of projects, and coordinate and adjust work effort with team to ensure that work is completed within parameters of agreed-to budget and schedule
• Work with the Project Manager, Accounting, Operational and Business leadership for periodic project reviews
• Perform other duties as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification
• Familiar with Microsoft Office, estimating and scheduling software, project management software
• Experience designing complex and large-scale healthcare, laboratory, and/or mission critical data center facilities

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 5 years related experience
• Able to interact with various design teams, have excellent organizational, project management and communication (both written and verbal) skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement.

Pay

The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education and geographical location. The base pay range is $100,870.00 - $144,100.00.

Schedule

This is a Full-time Employee position.