Cordogan Clark Architecture | Engineering | Construction | Interior Design | Planning
Aurora & Chicago, Illinois | St Louis, Missouri | Cleveland, Ohio | Lafayette, Indiana | Sawyer, Michigan | Davenport, Iowa | Madrid, Spain Cordogan Clark is an award-winning full-service architecture, engineering, and construction firm with a 125-year legacy of designing and building innovative and functional spaces.
With that legacy propelling us into the future, we are a team of 150 professionals across multiple locations and service categories who are committed to an innovative environment of cooperation, innovation, diversity, and inclusion!
We are committed to helping our employees achieve their career goals.
As such, we offer our employees a variety of opportunities to learn and grow, including in-house training programs, conferences, and professional development workshops.
We also offer regular performance review sessions to help our employees identify their strengths and weaknesses, and to develop plans to achieve these goals.
To accomplish this progression, we provide opportunities to take on new challenges and responsibilities, and to advance within the firm.
If you are a talented and motivated professional who is looking to join a team that is passionate about creating innovative and functional spaces, then we encourage you to apply to Cordogan Clark today and play a role in building our next 125 years! Your Role Cordogan Clark is looking for an Assistant Construction Project Manager to join our team in the Greater Chicago Area, assisting the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction teams throughout the design-build process.
This is a full-time position for a professional with 1 to 3 or more years of general full-time experience.
The ideal candidate will be a skillful delegator, adept at identifying crucial aspects of the project and prioritizing them, while staying on top off all other aspects of the project.
Responsibilities include meeting with project partners, managing supervisors and teams, ensuring all design, bidding, construction objectives and standards are met, finding solutions to problems as they arise, overseeing preconstruction activities to ensure that designs are buildable for the budgets allocated and estimated, creating and managing CPM project schedules and phasing complexities, reviewing constructability of drawings, doing preconstruction estimates, reviewing RFI's, completing Change Order Requests with full unit cost analysis, and communicating effectively with contractors, architects, owner reps and the client.
This is a hybrid in-office and in-the-field position that requires expertise in all aspects of the design-build process and the ability to plan, execute, and manage projects from start to finish.
Specifics of Your Role Reports to the Director of Construction Operations.Meeting with engineers, architects and contractors on an ongoing basis regarding project objectives and progress.Managing and motivating site foreman and teams.Ensuring all equipment needed is available on site.Ensuring budget costs relating to wages, contractors, materials and equipment aren't exceeded.Approving purchase requests.Ensuring the construction process starts and ends on time and ensuring daily and weekly deadlines are met.Ensuring compliance with health, safety and all other regulations.Conducting ongoing quality inspections. Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or related field of study.Proficient in MS Office Word, Excel and Project, and Construction PM Software.1-3 plus years of construction project management and/or site management experience.Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff.Skilled at solving conflict between different project members and staff.Outstanding negotiation, organizational and problem-solving skillsStrong leadership skills.Business Development skills are a significant plus. Featured Benefits Participation in the company's comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and short-and-long term disability insurance plans.Pre-tax reimbursement accounts for both childcare and health care purposes.Participation in the company's 401k Plan, which includes up to a 3% discretionary match.Personal Time-Off (PTO).Paid Holidays: New Year's Day, Good Friday (1/2 day), Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving (Thursday & Friday), Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth to be added in 2025. Cordogan Clark is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $75,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year