Job Title: Assistant Project Manager

The assistant project manager's responsibilities include monitoring project progress, following up with stakeholders on the completion or delay of project phases, scheduling meetings, and maintaining project documents and reports.

Asplundh Construction is a strategically assembled team of utility executives, engineers, designers, and program and project professionals. All of us work together in performing superior utility infrastructure construction and maintenance services.

Being deeply ingrained in the utility industry and believing in open and frequent communication helps us to anticipate your project needs.  Asplundh Construction is one of the safest and most responsive utility service companies in the nation.

Job Type: Full-Time +, Non-Exempt

Pay: Competitive, Hourly

Benefits:

• Company Sponsored Retirement Plan
• Health Insurance (Medical/Dental/Vision)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life, long-term/short-term disability insurances

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Track status of field construction projects.
• Assist in project scheduling.
• Update tracking and communication tools (Smartsheet, Excel, performance metric charts and tables).
• Monitor and facilitate program to collect production in the field using mobile communication platforms.
• Validate proper work package submission for billing.
• Assist General Forepersons as necessary to resolve daily operational issues.
• Monitor and report on adherence to production reporting processes.
• Validate and submit reports to utility customers.
• This is a minimum 40 hour per week job with overtime, as required.
• Asplundh Construction will provide a company owned laptop for use during this engagement. The laptop will be configured to connect to the company server or VPN. Asplundh Construction will provide a cell phone for company use only.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be 18 years-of-age or older.
• Must have strong analytical skills.
• Effective verbal and written communication with all levels of internal organization and the customer, from field personnel to executive leadership.
• Intermediate to advanced skills with Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and charts.
• Experience using Smartsheet is preferred, but not required.
• Ability to anticipate needs, be proactive, resourceful, and flexible in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to analyze large volumes of data and perform metrics analysis.
• Candidates with military background preferred.

Education & Experience

• Two-year college degree in construction management, engineering, or other related area or have equivalent.
• Business experience preferred.

Pre-Screen

• Upon offer, employees may be required to subject and pass a pre-employment drug screen, background and/or MVR check.

License & Certifications:

• Valid driver's license required.

Physical Requirements:

• RARE (less than 10%): stooping, kneeling, squatting, body twisting, crawling, climbing on/off truck, climbing poles, gripping, climbing ladders, balancing
• OCCASSIONAL (up to 33%): standing, sitting, sense of touch, manual dexterity, seeing distant, lifting over 10 lbs. to 50 lbs., seeing, reaching, range of motion, depth perception, color vision, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, climbing stairs, lifting up to 10 lbs., lifting up to 50 lbs.
• FREQUENT (up to 66%): walking
• CONTINUOUS (up to 100%): speaking clearly, reading, hearing-speech range

Safety

Due to the inherently dangerous nature of the industry and requirements to work with or around hazardous equipment, employees must have sufficient eyesight to judge distance/coordination of equipment and tools, be able to maintain attention and concentration for extended periods of time, be able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather while completing work assignments, be able to wear personal protective equipment as necessary, be able to enter and exit a vehicle numerous times a day, have the endurance necessary to traverse various terrain, be capable of performing job duties throughout a standard 8- or 10-hour day, be able to communicate with others, read, write, and comprehend written/verbal job instructions and information, and communicate and handle conflict professionally.

About Us:

In the early 1960s, the Asplundh Service Co. was established as a subsidiary of the Asplundh Tree Expert Co. to perform underground electric and telephone cable work. Over time, this work transitioned back into the Tree Co. until 1990 when a fast-growing utility construction company, B & J Maintenance, was acquired.  Based on Long Island, New York, this operation expanded Asplundh’s capabilities in overhead and underground electric, as well as gas, construction and maintenance services.

To take advantage of Asplundh’s name recognition in the utility industry, the name was changed to Asplundh Construction, Corp. in 1992. Operations soon expanded into Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, and then all the way to the West Coast.

In 2004, Asplundh Construction became part of UtiliCon Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Asplundh, which primarily focuses on providing electric and gas infrastructure (non-vegetation management) services.  The UtiliCon family of companies employs over 4,000 people and maintains a fleet of 4,400 specialized vehicles and equipment to serve the project needs of investor-owned, cooperative and municipal utilities, as well as public agencies.

Individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without a reasonable accommodation.  Individuals with a disability who desire a reasonable accommodation should contact the ADA Coordinator at 1-800-248-8733, ext. 1339.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.