Assistant Project Manager

**Assistant Project Manager**

Are you seeking a challenge that gives you the opportunity to blend your knowledge in the Project Management Industry, highlighting your skills in financial cash flow of projects, with your top notch interpersonal and management skills?

Tate Engineering is an engineering, project management, and consulting firm that defines and solves complex issues related to capital projects, energy and resource use, and facility management. We have provided professional project, advisory project & construction management services for some of Nova Scotia’s largest and most complex construction and engineering projects.
- **We are growing and seeking the right Assistant Project Manager to join our team.**_

**About the position**

This is an exciting opportunity for you to play a pivotal role in supporting the Project Manager alongside a team of professionals, delivering projects on time, within budget, and with a high
- quality outcome.

**Responsibilities include, but are not limited to**:

- Create/Maintain cash flow analysis reports for multiple projects.
- Monitor, interpret and forecast project costs to ensure they are in line with the budget.
- Work with clients to define the purpose, risks, and financial basis for the project.
- Assist in developing the project plan which defines scope, describes responsibilities, establishes schedule, and confirms the budget constraints related to the project.
- Through collaboration, provide assistance from pre-construction to occupancy.
- Provide oversight and leadership to the change management process, payment certificates and other contract or project related administrative documents.
- Provide feedback on quality, schedule, and budget throughout the design process.
- Perform needs-based evaluations of project submissions and make recommendations for approval.
- Participate in project teams per the established levels of authority and lines of communication.
- Review invoices and prepare financial submissions as required.
- Report regularly on project status by means of schedule updates, meeting minutes, financial records, and status reports.
- Assist with project meetings and prepare meeting minutes with internal and external parties.
- Document the decision process and communicate to the entire team at appropriate times to maintain consistency.
- Proactively monitor projects to advise of activities or tasks that require or may require review.

**Required Skills**:

- 3-5 years demonstrated experience managing project budgets.
- Post-secondary education in Business Administration and Project Management is considered an asset.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Exceptional communication skills are a must; written and verbal.
- Advanced technical knowledge and organizational skills.
- Entrepreneurial mind-set: identify tasks and opportunities to excel.
- Being a self-starter who is responsible and dependable is essential to the role.
- Strong problem-solving skills.

**About you**
- You are seeking an opportunity to be professionally mentored, advance in your career. You are more than a number here. You are our company.
- You are hardworking and dedicated but appreciate life balance. We enjoy life and want the same for you.
- You are detail oriented, are great at problem-solving and critical thinking, and understand the importance of process.
- You are confident but check your ego at the door. There are no rock stars here and no departments. The whole team owns the entire project - together.
- You appreciate candor and understand the best breakthroughs often happens through the direct exchange of ideas and information. Tiptoeing isn’t an option.
- You are comfortable speaking your mind, asking questions, sharing ideas, and enjoy the magic that results from curiosity and creative collaboration.
- You are not afraid to fail, understanding that failing forward is part of growing and learning.
- You are self-directed, highly invested, and take ownership of your work.
- You value creating and maintaining positive relationships.

**Salary**: $50,000.00-$70,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Project Budgets: 3 years (required)

Work Location: In person