Assistant To Project Manager Jobs in Springfield, MA

Summary

In addition to the duties of a Project Engineer, the Project Manager directs in-house company services. He/she may be a liaison between company departments, serve as an assistant to the Engineering Manager, or provide unique experience to the Engineering Department. The Project Manager is responsible for client development. He/she prepares engineering proposals and coordinates the work of the various levels of project engineers. The Project Manager coordinates site access, assigns laboratory tests, and performs engineering analyses and evaluations. He/she coordinates project requirements with client representatives. He/she provides additional theoretical expertise as well as experience base for engineering analyses and evaluations. He/she reviews reports before publication.

The project manager is the bridge between upper management and the team tasked with the actual execution of the project. They make sure the scope of the project is sound, reporting regularly on the progress of the project and that it is staying on the approved schedule.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Essential duties include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Develops the scope of drilling and testing programs as well as the scope of analyses and evaluations for engineering proposals.
• Performs risk management to minimize project risks
• Serves as a liaison between company departments acting as an assistant to the Engineering Manager to coordinate activities between departments.
• Assigns and oversees project personnel to specific phases or aspects of the project such as technical studies, product design, preparation of specifications and technical plans, and product testing.
• Attends meetings as a representative of Eustis Engineering.
• Controls expenditures within the limitations of the project budget.
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for project execution.
• Coordinates activities concerned with technical developments, scheduling, and resolving engineering design and test problems.
• Coordinates preparation and delivery of project deliverables and design documents.
• Creates and maintains comprehensive project documentation
• Delegates project duties to various levels of Project Engineers for whom he/she is responsible for peer review of delegated duties.
• Develops a detailed plan to ensure resource availability, allocation, and delivery of every project on time and within budget and scope.
• Develops a detailed project plan to track progress.
• Develops project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Develops and maintains a schedule for the assigned engineering project.
• Directs integration of technical activities and products.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with third parties/vendors.
• Evaluates engineering evaluation changes.
• Identifies project staffing requirements and coordinates staffing with supporting organization managers.
• Interfaces with clients to provide project status updates.
• Is responsible for client contact and ongoing coordination for extended projects.
• Manages the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Measures project performance using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques.
• Performs standard as well as rigorous and difficult engineering analyses and evaluations.
• Prepares interim and completion project reports.
• Provides status and progress reports to client, project team, and management.
• Reports and escalates to management as needed.
• Reviews design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, client contract requirements, and related specifications.

Other duties of the Project Manager include the following.

• Attends occasional project meetings.
• Participates in local professional societies (ASCE, ACI, ACEC, etc.).

Project managers should have a background in business skills, management, budgeting, and analysis. You should be an excellent communicator and comfortable managing multiple tasks. You also need to be a team player and have a problem-solving aptitude.

Supervisory Responsibilities

The Project Manager works under the technical and administrative supervision of the Engineering Manager. He/she may work under the technical supervision of a Senior Project Manager. As a manager of in-house services, the Project Manager is largely autonomous. He/she may receive technical guidance on unusual or complex projects, and supervisory approval on proposed plans for engineering projects.

Education and/or Experience

• As a minimum, a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from an ABET-accredited curriculum with six years of work experience after earning the degree. A master’s degree in Civil Engineering is preferred with emphasis in geotechnical engineering or graduate-level coursework and/or a certificate. The position of Project Manager requires registration as a Professional Engineer. Professional attainments should include membership in professional societies and active involvement in a leadership role, delivery of technical presentations to professional groups, and completion of a project management course to be selected and approved by the Engineering Manager.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, clients, and the public.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Computer Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of internet search engines, Microsoft Office Products software, and engineering software as required by the position.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Registration Status as a Registered Professional Engineer in state of work or residence.
• Maintenance of continuing education requirements for registration.

Other Skills and Abilities

None at this time.

Other Qualifications

None at this time.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above and below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; outside weather conditions; and extreme cold and extreme heat. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock; risk of radiation and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.