Assistant Project Manager

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We are looking to add an Assistant Project Manager to our team at the New Surrey Hospital project in Cloverdale, BC. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on a large, innovative project that will massively benefit the surrounding community.

You as an Assistant Project Manager will:

• Prepare and analyze financial data ensuring positive cash flow for project
• Provide technical engineering information to employees and subcontractors to ensure project complies with all engineering standards, codes, specifications and design instructions
• Assist in plan and specification analysis in order to provide clear, trackable and coordinated interpretations of the design/drawings for construction
• Assist in evaluation and solution of potential field problems and report them to the Project Manager
• Understand and perform document control functions, including tracking and creating of RFI's, transmitting and tracking of submittals, compose agreements and maintain project expediting list

Is this the right role for you?

• You have a construction related degree/diploma and three to five years of construction experience or an equivalent combination of technical training and experience
• Experience in healthcare/hospital construction is an asset
• Working knowledge of scheduling, project management and contract software
• Ability to support the project team and helping to solve construction issues in time sensitive situations

Go ahead and be yourself. We'll pay you for it!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of any age, culture, subculture, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, race, size, mental or physical status, veteran status, religion, language, political opinion, working-style preference, family status, education, and socio-economic status. The EllisDon core values of Integrity and Mutual Respect welcomes everyone, at work and in the community, and our value of Mutual Accountability, means that we all have a role to play. As an EllisDon employee, this will ultimately be your commitment to Inclusive Diversity.

​Accommodation for Applicants with disabilities will be made during the recruitment process when requested.

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