K-12 Education Construction - Assistant Project Manager

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Help deliver schools and educational facilities that directly serve students, educators, and local communities.

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Salary: $95,000 - $110,000 per year

A bit about us:

Our client is a well-established architecture, engineering, construction management, and project management firm supporting complex public and institutional projects throughout the Northeast.

The company has a particularly strong track record in the education sector, supporting both renovation and new construction programs for K-12 and higher education clients. Its education teams work in active school environments where phasing, schedule coordination, site safety, and minimizing disruption to students and staff are critical.

This is an excellent opportunity for an Assistant Project Manager looking to build a long-term career in K-12 construction and owner-side project management while gaining exposure to projects from planning and design through construction and closeout.

Why join us?

• Meaningful K-12 projects: Help deliver schools and educational facilities that directly serve students, educators, and local communities.
• Strong project exposure: Gain experience across planning, design coordination, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout.
• Learn alongside experienced professionals: Work closely with Project Managers, architects, engineers, contractors, consultants, and public-sector stakeholders.
• Career growth: Join an organization that emphasizes professional development through internal and external training and offers opportunities for advancement.
• Diverse project experience: Support renovations, additions, capital improvement programs, and potentially new construction within active educational environments.
• Established education practice: The firm's broader education portfolio includes more than 2,000 completed educational projects across K-12 and higher education environments.

Job Details

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the Project Manager with the day-to-day management of K-12 construction projects from preconstruction through closeout.
• Coordinate with owners, school representatives, architects, engineers, contractors, consultants, and other project stakeholders.
• Support project schedules, budgets, cost tracking, documentation, and reporting.
• Assist with reviewing and tracking RFIs, submittals, change orders, meeting minutes, punch lists, and closeout documentation.
• Participate in project meetings and site walks and follow up on outstanding action items.
• Monitor construction progress and help identify potential schedule, cost, quality, or coordination issues.
• Support construction activities taking place within occupied or operational school environments, with particular attention to safety, phasing, logistics, and maintaining school operations.
• Help ensure project documentation is organized, accurate, and communicated to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Assist with coordination between design and construction teams to keep projects progressing on schedule.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1-5 years of experience in construction management, project management, architecture, engineering, or a related AEC environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related discipline preferred.
• Previous experience with K-12, higher education, municipal, public-sector, or institutional construction is highly desirable, especially with MSBA experience
• Familiarity with construction drawings, specifications, RFIs, submittals, change orders, schedules, and project documentation.
• Comfortable working both in the field and in a project/office environment.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to coordinate multiple priorities and communicate effectively with owners, consultants, contractors, and internal project teams.
• Experience working on occupied renovation projects or phased construction is a plus.
• Proficiency with standard Microsoft Office applications; experience with construction/project management platforms is beneficial.

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