# Assistant Project Manager

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Dallas, TX
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a highly skilled part-time Assistant Project Manager (APM) to serve on-site in Dallas, TX. This is a full-time position.

The successful candidate will provide advisory oversight stretching across design progression, construction, and final client close-out. This role bridges senior strategic project management with technical field execution, ensuring that this multi-million-dollar capital project scope aligns flawlessly with the client's programmatic goals, budget constraints, and strict execution windows.

## Your Impact

### Design & Pre-Construction Phase

- Partner with WSP design Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to coordinate design work performed by the clients’ consultants, perform complex constructability analyses, and facilitate client workshops.

- Collaborate with WSP schedulers and client teams to engineer early master project schedules and milestone tracking frameworks.

- Support the Program Director in drafting comprehensive Requests for Proposals (RFPs), managing competitive bidding processes, and auditing contractor selections.

### Construction Phase

- Serve as the core daily field liaison maintaining open communication among client stakeholders, architectural/engineering partners, and site crews.

- Drive administrative project controls: auditing and processing Requests for Information (RFIs), material submittals, and field change directives.

- Work with the project control manager to perform financial progress audits, validate monthly contractor payment applications, and regularly update overall capital budget forecasts.

- Conduct systematic site safety/progress walks, host regular coordination meetings, and coordinate schedule adjustments with WSP construction manager.

### Close-out Phase

- Support WSP SMEs as needed in coordinating commissioning of project elements with the client commissioning agent.

- Enforce strict, systematic punch-list tracking architectures and manage on-site inspections of outstanding construction fixes.

- Secure and catalog all asset deliverables, including Operations & Maintenance (O&M) manuals, product warranties, and certificates of occupancy.

- Finalize end-to-end commercial contract reconciliations, orchestrate final retainage payouts, and manage formal operational handovers.

### Other

- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

## Who You Are

### Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, business OR equivalent

- Minimum of 7+ years of progressive professional experience in construction management, project engineering, or capital execution tracks.

- Deep understanding of industrial capital construction workflows, building codes, safety compliance matrices, and project delivery.

- Proven background working in construction management, explicitly emphasizing owner's representative or independent advisory roles.

- Analytical & Commercial Acumen with technical risk-mitigation skills to safely navigate volatile project environments as needed.

- Exceptional interpersonal skills to negotiate, persuade, and build consensus between corporate client stakeholders and field trade contractors.

- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies

- Valid, current Driver's license

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## Skills

### Required
- construction management
- project engineering
- capital execution
- design progression
- construction
- client close-out
- risk-mitigation
- interpersonal skills
- safety compliance

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