Assistant Project Manager - Construction & Project Planning

Assistant Project Manager

Job Title

Assistant Project Manager

Job Description Summary

Job Description

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Job Posting Title

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Project Coodinator

Job Description Summary

Purpose of the role in 1-2 sentences

• This role is responsible for leading end-to-end project planning and controls, from baseline development through monitoring and close-out, ensuring alignment with project scope, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and statutory requirements.

Job Description

3-5 bullet points of specific duties

About the Role:

• Serve as the central coordination point for all planning, scheduling, and project controls activities, ensuring alignment between clients, consultants, contractors, and internal teams.
• Lead the development of the project baseline, including scope breakdown, work sequencing, schedule preparation, cost planning, and resource loading—to establish a robust execution roadmap.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure all design, procurement, and construction activities are accurately reflected in integrated project schedules and aligned with project objectives.
• 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.

3-5 bullet points of key selection criteria

About You:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
• Masters in Construction Management
• 5+ years of experience in project management for large-scale, mixed-use Hospitality & Commercial 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.

3 bullet points of job/country specific benefits

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.

 

 

 

INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”

Experience Level

Mid Level