Traveling Assistant Project Manager - T.W. Frierson Contractor

Date Posted: 11/26/2024

Location: Nashville, TN

Salary Interval: Salary

Pay Range: N/A

Application Instructions

Please complete the general application questions and attach your resume. We will contact you by email if we are interested in beginning the interview process with you.

Benefits and supplemental compensation include:

1. Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, legal, identity theft, and supplemental insurance
2. Health savings account
3. Dependent care flexible spending account
4. Paid holidays and vacation
5. 401(k) with company match
6. Employee stock ownership program (no cost to employee)
7. Company apparel program
8. Flexible work schedules
9. Sabbatical program
10. Casual office dress code
11. Annual bonus

Position Description

Job Summary: This is a traveling position with responsibility for planning, directing, and coordinating activities of commercial construction projects to ensure that the goals and objectives are accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters. An additional focus of this position is to strengthen existing as well as build new and lasting relationships with clientele and subcontractors.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Upon assignment of project, develop and refine project specific and client-driven goals, schedules, and budgets.
• On negotiated design-build projects, assist the design team during the design phase. Identify design inefficiencies and recommend changes to keep project on budget while still meeting the required specifications.
• Coordinate any necessary due diligence efforts on behalf of the client, maintaining and delivering all appropriate documentation.
• Establish and maintain project goals and success criteria meeting the client’s needs.
• Develop and maintain project budget, schedules, and cost control. Actively track each aspect of project performance against schedules and critical path.
• Complete monthly job cost projection reports and meet with management team to discuss cost and any issues on the projects.
• Provide estimating assistance to preconstruction staff as needed.
• Track and communicate weekly project schedule updates to subcontractors and owners.
• Complete subcontracts and purchase orders. Monitor and approve vendor and subcontractor invoices. Develop and process monthly pay applications.
• Submit and review change orders while effectively communicating issues and developing resolutions.
• Initiate and conduct weekly project meetings with all stakeholders.
• Review and address plan details, resolve issues before they result in added budget expenditures.
• Maintain continual open communication with clients, design team, Project Superintendents, subcontractors, and vendors.
• Attend client interviews and meetings.
• Perform additional assignments at supervisor’s direction.

Position Requirements

Knowledge, Experience & Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or related field
• Minimum of 1-2 years of work experience in a commercial construction environment, to include experience as a Project Engineer in same setting
• Exceptional organizational, time management, and decision-making/problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a proactive client focus
• Superior oral and written communication skills
• Ability to read and understand construction documents
• Ability to produce quality work in an autonomous manner in an ever-changing environment
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Vista, P6 Scheduling, Timberline estimating, and Procore
• Ability to operate basic office equipment including computer, printer, copier, fax, scanner, adding machine, telephone, and mobile phone
• Must possess a valid, state-issued driver’s license and good driving record
• Ability to work Monday through Friday, at least eight hours per day, five days per week between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Travel Requirements:

• Position would start out for a few months in the Nashville office
• Starting in April/May 2025, position would be stationed full-time on a project site in Canton, Mississippi for approximately 24 months.
• After Canton project is complete, position would return to work out of the Nashville office until another travel project becomes available.

Physical Demands of Job:

Job is primarily sedentary. There is occasional lifting of up to 30 pounds, standing, walking, kneeling, squatting, climbing required.

Equal Opportunity Employer T. W. Frierson Contractor, Inc. is committed to providing equal opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment under the requirements of all federal, state and local laws. It is the Company’s policy to recruit, hire, train, compensate and promote all its employees and to administer all other personnel policies without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age (40 and over), national origin, pregnancy, handicap or disability, personal genetic information, veterans’ status, or any other status or category protected by federal, state and local laws.

Knowledge, Experience & Competencies:

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or related field
• Minimum of 1-2 years of work experience in a commercial construction environment, to include experience as a Project Engineer in same setting
• Exceptional organizational, time management, and decision-making/problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a proactive client focus
• Superior oral and written communication skills
• Ability to read and understand construction documents
• Ability to produce quality work in an autonomous manner in an ever-changing environment
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Vista, P6 Scheduling, Timberline estimating, and Procore
• Ability to operate basic office equipment including computer, printer, copier, fax, scanner, adding machine, telephone, and mobile phone
• Must possess a valid, state-issued driver's license and good driving record
• Ability to work Monday through Friday, at least eight hours per day, five days per week between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Travel Requirements:

• Position would start out for a few months in the Nashville office
• Starting in April/May 2025, position would be stationed full-time on a project site in Canton, Mississippi for approximately 24 months.
• After Canton project is complete, position would return to work out of the Nashville office until another travel project becomes available.

Physical Demands of Job:

Job is primarily sedentary. There is occasional lifting of up to 30 pounds, standing, walking, kneeling, squatting, climbing required.

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