Assistant Construction Manager

Assistant Construction Manager

Location: Glen Allen, VA

Description:

This role will provide construction support as outlined below and continuously seek growth opportunities to expand construction support responsibilities and services.

Duties/Tasks:

• Perform regular site visits to active construction sites to observe ongoing construction activities and note any general observations of progress, construction issues, safety, quality, and/or environmental for reporting to the PM team.
• Identify potential scope gaps at the front end of projects and during construction execution, potential constructability or coordination issues, and potential alternative solutions to mitigate or improve design/construction. Report findings to the PM verbally and in writing to determine actionable paths forward and assist with closing out or running point on actions.
• Participate in project kickoff meetings and various construction meetings.
• Support pre-construction sequencing and outage planning development with the Program Management Team (PMT) and Outage Coordination Team (OCT).
• Accompany PMs and escort visitors as needed to project sites as part of scoping or construction planning efforts to provide construction input and/or site escorting and access.
• Develop and lead Pre-Task Hazard Analysis briefings for company-led site visits.
• Perform weekly and monthly reporting of general construction progress, performance, quality, safety, and environmental observations.
• Support the PMT and the client’s Construction Team with construction issues that may arise and assist in troubleshooting and reaching resolutions.
• Monitor PMT compliance with the company’s safety requirements and applicable client requirements.
• Support coordination efforts between the PMT, the client’s Construction Team, the client’s contractors, and other functional areas as appropriate.
• Participate in punch-list walkdowns, one-line verification walkdowns, pre-energization walkdowns, and other checklist/verification walkdowns pre-, intra-, and post-construction completion.

Job Requirements:

• 5+ years of Electrical T&D Field Construction Management experience overseeing and managing construction safety, quality, scope, cost, production, schedule, site logistics & coordination, and client representative/contractor interfacing.
• 5+ years of Electrical T&D Construction Project Management experience managing construction safety, quality, prime/subcontracts, scope, cost, production, schedule.
• Knowledge in understanding and interpreting substation, transmission line, telecom, and system protection construction and design.
• Industry knowledge and understanding of safety and quality for compliance, with the ability to apply client and company requirements as needed.
• Ability to establish, maintain, and build on relationships with client field and office personnel.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate across different levels of management.
• Proficient computer skills to navigate program databases, generate Microsoft documents, outage plans, presentations, emails, and locate various project information.
• Self-sufficient, self-starter.