Assistant Project Manager - Special Projects

Compensation for this role: $86,500 to $95,000 Depending on Experience

General Responsibilities

• Maintain open communication lines with all working relationships
• Follow up to ensure items for which the job is accountable are performed
• Earn and maintain customer's trust
• Uphold the core values of the organization
• Work well with others to accomplish the mission of the organization and of the job

Specific Responsibilities

Leadership

• Take responsibility for productivity, safety, and safety audits. Performs job walks to ensure:
• Employees are wearing Personal Protective Equipment and tools
• Employees are working safely and productively
• Tools and material are located in close proximity to work performed
• The installation is up to standard

Capable of overseeing a stand-alone project or multiple other PE's on a larger project

Process Improvement

• Engage and help to develop new Encore standards and processes and hold others accountable to them
• Participate in Project Manager meetings
• Help to develop phase codes for the project

Budgeting and Forecasting:

• Understand project budget and forecasting
• Manage subcontractors and vendors at financial level
• Capable of estimating change orders on a project
• Assist project team with labor cost codes for the project
• Work with Project Manager to write the commodity purchase order from the installation estimate
• Ensure all parties to the job (at all levels of the job) apply their time into the proper phase code for time keeping
• Understand material procurement process, (quoting, procuring, receiving, tracking, invoicing)

Customer Service

• Ability to have fierce conversations with customers and other trade partners
• Take responsibility for submittals Assist with submittal creation and procurement of material
• Make certain purchase orders and subcontracts are written and that the project is current on changing orders to the purchase orders
• Coordinate and maintain relationships with all project stakeholders
• Ensure proper maintenance of construction documents
• Actively engage in any required meetings
• Ensure the proper permit is obtained in the jurisdiction for the job location. Understand the permitting process and what the wiring methods are in different jurisdiction
• Responsible for project closeout documentation
• Prior to completion, involves the service department so they know the job and are introduced to the owner to maintain the relationship
• Assist closing out the job with vendors

General

• Work with project team to set up the job
• Accurate and consistent man loading of your project scope
• Understanding of how to effectively utilize support service groups
• Work with the project team to build an information sheet and map to the jobsite
• Assisting Project Manager as necessary in performing cost to complete on a monthly basis
• Strong communication with the entire project team (Internal and External)
• Ability to navigate Project Management Systems

Other duties as may be assigned

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Knowledge of:

• The construction process from scheduling to manpower to the labor, materials and equipment required for installation
• Constructability and the construction process
• Algebra and geometry
• Statistics
• Financial math

Skill in:

• Acting as a self-starter
• Good organization skills
• Spatial orientation
• Identifying scope gaps in construction documents
• Customer management
• Listening
• Speaking intelligently
• Estimating resources needed to complete required tasks
• Adapting to new and changing requirements, environments, and/or information
• Managing people and processes
• Managing complex projects, breaking them down to their component levels
• Using communication software
• Effective written and oral communication sufficient to be able to elicit and communicate information and achieve understanding (Technical/Business writing)
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with customers, vendors, consultants, management, and employees
• Operating a computer
• Operate Microsoft office products
• Organizing work to accomplish tasks
• Reading and writing
• Prioritizing and reprioritizing to meet job needs
• Identifying and managing risk
• Problem solving
• Tracking numbers and bits of data relevant to the work assignment

Ability to:

• Retain and access critical information from memory
• Conceptualize and visualize the project for constructability means and methods
• Think on your feet
• Understand when to speak and when not to speak
• Be personally detached from ideas (no ego)
• See things from multiple perspectives
• Ability to coordinate effectively with all ENCORE Support Services
• Understand and contribute to the project turnover process

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Driving
• Sitting
• Climbing
• Lifting (up to 50 lbs)
• Standing
• Stooping
• Vision acuity (near and far)
• Walking

REQUIREMENTS:

• High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
• A degree in related field or Journeyman's License with Five years of progressive experience in the electrical trade preferred.
• Proficient with technology and relevant software for this role.
• Must have finanical acumen including budgeting, forecasting and estimating.

Benefits of this role:

• Encore Electric provides excellent benefits for our employees, including: medical, dental, and vision plans, disability, and life insurance, employee-matched 401(k), paid time off (PTO), an employee assistance program that includes counseling, legal, and financial advice.
• Encore also provides a generous employee referral program, and access to technical, safety, personal finance, and leadership training through Encore University, Encore's in house training program.

Applications will close for this position on: November 1, 2025

For questions regarding this role, please contact: recruiting@encoreelectric.com

To request an accommodation during the application process, please contact HR@EncoreElectric.com.

Encore Electric, Inc. is an EOE, including disability/vets.