The Project Management Assistant position provides external, consulting-type support to client Project Managers who oversee projects within the Electrical Transmission industry.
This role is primarily remote, with occasional travel to client sites in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey as needed.
QualificationsMinimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, engineering, finance, construction management or a related field from an accredited college AND 2 years of experience in construction project management or a closely related field, such as project organization, engineering, finance, construction, planning or project controls
- OR 3 years of experience in construction project management or closely related field, such as project organization, engineering, finance, construction, planning or project controls
- 1 year of utility industry experience
- Strong analysis skills with proficiency in Excel (i.e. adding and extracting data, charts, and formulas)
- Strong client-facing communication skills; effective relationship building skills
- Strong project management skills with a demonstrated ability to develop, manage and control multiple tasks
- Knowledge of finance, schedule, and material tracking
- Residency within the client's footprint of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, or New Jersey.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of utility industry experience, especially in Transmission/Distribution
- Familiarity with project management tools such as Primavera, MS Project, etc. with related Scheduling/Resource Planning expertise
- Ability to travel to client locations occasionally
Perform the following duties with minimal guidance:
- When needed, fully step in for the project manager to manage, document, and communicate on all aspects of strategic planning, including schedule, risk, budgeting, and scope management (e.g. in the case of a project manager’s extended leave of absence)
- Process approvals, produce bid packages, track project invoices, and develop project cash flow, forecast plans, and reports, while tracking monthly accruals using established software systems
- Participate in & hold project status meetings, kick-off meetings, safety messages, and site walk downs
- Evaluate project performance and project data (financial, invoicing, material, and schedule) by inputting and extracting data from established software systems, communicating findings, and resolving or escalating issues
- Engage in client coordination for the full project lifecycle, including project documentation, performance reporting, and retention
- Conduct close-out functions, including Lessons Learned protocols, following up with stakeholders, and evaluating completion of goals and objectives
- Identify process improvements and communicate suggestions to stakeholders (i.e. automating forms and processes, improving functionality of dashboards, etc.)
- Support in the training and education of internal team members and external client project managers, especially new employees, on the relevant processes, systems, and Standard Work Instructions (SWIs)
- Support client leadership with complex tasks and reports involving higher visibility and risk, deep knowledge of platforms, analytical insights, coordinating between multiple working groups, and understanding complex processes with minimal guidance
Top Skills
What We Do
We translate strategy into long-term, sustainable, and measurable results by using our three-tier approach: Strategy, Capability and Execution.
We structure our work with clients around three critical questions:
1. STRATEGY — Are we doing the ‘right’ things?
Gut instincts alone are not enough to manage a growing enterprise. You need strong analytics to make the quantifiable strategic decisions that will drive your continued success. Capital spending and organizational initiatives must be aligned to the strategy.
We help you implement strategic alignment tools to prioritize your capital spending and strategic initiatives.
2. CAPABILITY — Are we ‘capable’ of doing the ‘right’ things?
Capability is the readiness of the company to navigate the path set by its strategy. The importance of capabilities was highlighted when research showed that some companies consistently outperformed others despite having similar strategies, market positions, value propositions and pricing.
Those leading companies were found to have superior capabilities that allowed them to perfect the implementation of their strategies.
We help you transform your organization and develop the capabilities required for strategy implementation. Our engagement is often structured around the four elements of capability: process, organization, systems, and performance.
3. EXECUTION — Are we ‘executing’ the ‘right’ things ‘right’?
Strategy and capability are essential to superior performance, but they alone are not sufficient for a company’s success. Excellence in execution is the third required ingredient.
Execution is about getting things done. Excellence in execution is about getting things done right every time.
Our involvement during the execution phase is usually categorized under one of the following categories or a combination thereof:
· Monitoring and measuring performance
· Outsourcing some of the client’s business functions
