Assistant Project Manager

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Assistant Project Manager

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Project Engineer

Job Description Summary

Purpose of the role in 1-2 sentences

• This role is responsible for coordinating project planning, engineering execution, monitoring, and close-out activities, ensuring alignment with project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, and regulatory requirements.

Job Description

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About the Role:

• Coordinate project execution activities, ensuring alignment between stakeholders and project objectives.
• Support project planning through scope definition, scheduling, resource planning, and execution tracking.
• Collaborate with design, procurement, and construction teams to ensure smooth project delivery and schedule adherence.
• Monitor project progress, identify schedule risks, track critical activities, and support timely implementation of approved changes.
• Conduct regular Planning Review Meetings to track schedule performance, monitor critical paths, assess variances, and ensure timely incorporation of approved changes.

General Responsibilities 

• Evaluate project schedules, work programs, resource plans, and cost estimates for feasibility, constructability, and compliance with contractual and statutory requirements.
• Monitor project progress using earned value metrics, dashboards, and MIS tools to identify delays, risks, and deviations from the baseline, and recommend corrective actions.
• Support procurement planning by tracking long-lead items, vendor timelines, and material delivery schedules to ensure seamless construction sequencing.
• Conduct periodic site visits to validate reported progress, assess productivity, identify bottlenecks, and synchronize site execution with approved schedules.
• Prepare and maintain planning documentation—including baseline schedules, look-ahead programs, progress reports, S-curves, recovery schedules, and risk registers—to support informed decision-making and project governance.

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About You:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
• 1+ years of experience in project management for large-scale, Residential projects within a PMC, developer, or consulting environment.
• Strong understanding of project planning, cost control, contract administration, construction methodologies, and regulatory compliance.
• Proficiency in project management software, scheduling tools (MSP/Primavera), and MIS/reporting systems.
• Excellent leadership, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive teams toward timely and quality project delivery.

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Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from it.

• Being part of a growing global company.
• Career development and promotion from within culture.
• An organization committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.
We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

 

 

 

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