AddressBlack & McDonald's Utilities team is growing! If you are an independent, enthusiastic, and driven professional searching for an opportunity to build a solid foundation for your career, this position is for you. The Project Coordinator / Assistant PM is located on site (Currently, in Chatham, ON and Woodstock, ON) and typically reports directly to the Project Manager.
Project Coordinators / Assistant PM's plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate assigned project(s) from start to finish and in accordance with schedule, specifications, and budget. Their primary focus is safety, planning, monitoring progress, scheduling, quality, costs management, estimating, reporting, and managing project change under the direction of senior leadership.
Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Assist the Project Manager on datacenter projects to ensure project objectives, policies, procedures, and performance standards are in accordance with company policy and contract specifications are met
- Comply with all company health, safety, and environmental policies and procedures
- Assist in planning and preparing construction schedules and milestones, and monitor progress against established timelines
- Complete quantity take offs from construction drawings, track and update as-built quantities and field verify when required
- Assist in preparing contracts and negotiate revisions, changes and additions to contractual agreements with clients, suppliers, and subcontractors
- Assist in budget analysis, cost and margin projections, estimate project changes and impacts
- Assist in developing and implementing quality control programs
- Build and maintain customer and supplier/vendor relationships
- Prepare progress reports and issue progress schedules to clients
- Trade and subcontractor coordination
- Document control
- Purchase supplies and materials as required to complete project
- Communicates Effectively
- Problem Solving and Innovation
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Values and Respects Others
- Degree or Diploma in electrical or mechanical engineering, construction management, or equivalent.
- 3-7 years of Project Coordination experience in the construction sector
- Experience working on electrical, or substation projects is an asset
- Proficient knowledge and understanding of:
- Contract management
- Construction scheduling, planning, and execution
- Blueprint reading
- Project electrical, mechanical and structural design interpretation
- Financial statements – read and comprehend
- Organization and time management
- MS Office (Word, Excel, Project)
- JD Edwards or an Oracle-based ERP system
Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process.
