Assistant Project Manager

Come to Terracon and discover what great looks like!
Our North Charleston office is growing, and we have the opportunity for a Construction Materials Assistant Project Manager to join our team. If your passion lies in working on projects that help your community, and if you're interested in belonging to a 100% employee-owned organization that allows us to set our course together and benefit when our hard work creates financial success, then Terracon is your kind of company! Come explore with us!
At Terracon, safety is a core value. Working safely is an uncompromising commitment at all levels of the company to ensure everyone goes home safe to their family each and every day.
General Responsibilities:
As an Assistant Project Manager, you will assist Project Managers of materials engineering projects to ensure that it is safely completed on time and within scope and budget. Troubleshoot and recommend or resolve operational problems and minimize delays. May be responsible for resource management, project scheduling, budgets and forecasts, and working with external vendors, subcontractors or contractors. Participates in meetings and prepares reports to communicate the status of the project to project team and client. Set priorities, assign tasks, and coordinate project staff to meet project targets and milestones. May have responsibilities to communicate with the client and deliver work products to satisfaction of client. Coordinates effort with PM and APR to make sure that APR has opportunity to engage throughout the project, particularly at critical junctures. May be involved with approving invoices, preparing change orders, and collections.
 
Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

• Under direct supervision manage small projects, or one phase of a large project.
• Implement an established project plan.
• Identify, resolve, or escalate operational problems and minimize delays.
• Lead safety efforts including preparation and compliance with approved safety plan.
• Analyze project requirements and perform calculations or writes reports and completes deliverables.
• Coordinate the activities of outside contractors to ensure they are integrated into the project and the firm receives satisfactory standards of service.
• Estimate the costs, resources, and time required to complete the assigned phase of a project and monitor activities, allocate resources and assign tasks to ensure these targets are met.
• Conduct project meetings and prepare regular reports to communicate the status of the project within and beyond the project team.
• Set priorities, assign tasks, and coordinates project staff to meet project targets and milestones.
• Submits project deliverables to client as per contract scope and schedule
• Responsible to deliver work within approved budget
• Coordinates with APR to ensure appropriate oversight is in place and sufficient time allowed for reviews of all critical junctures.
• Develop understanding and be aware of project-related risk.  Be familiar with what could go wrong on a project and how to protect the Company.  Be familiar with company risk policies. 
• Lead safety efforts for team and ensure team follows safety rules and guidelines.  Responsible for creating and modeling a safe work environment; demonstrates safety practices.  Promote pre-task planning for all projects.
• Promote continuous quality monitoring and improvement on projects.  Monitor quality standards and practices.  Engage APRs on projects at their onset.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in technical discipline practices by the Firm including Engineering, Environmental Science or Geology.  Or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 3 years' related experience.
• Valid driver's license with acceptable violation history.