Assistant Project Manager

Related Midwest, through its vertically integrated general contracting entity, LR Contracting, is seeking a motivated construction professional for an intermediate project management role supporting large, complex projects or portfolios of smaller projects, including new construction, rehabilitation, and preservation projects.

The Assistant Project Manager role is designed to apply and expand knowledge of the construction process. This position supports project execution with increased responsibility and independence, including coordination of preconstruction activities, estimating, scheduling, logistics, cost tracking, financial reporting, contract administration, and field operations. The Assistant Project Manager contributes to the successful execution of projects under the guidance of senior project leadership.

The role requires strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with project teams, field staff, preconstruction personnel, consultants, and other key stakeholders while contributing to a respectful, collaborative, and performance-driven team culture.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Support management of construction projects from preconstruction through closeout with increasing responsibility for assigned scopes and trade coordination.
• Assist in coordination between project architects, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, and field teams to support project execution and timely issue resolution.
• Support procurement and subcontractor buyout activities, including bid coordination, scope review, subcontractor evaluations, award recommendations and insurance compliance.
• Manage assigned trade contractor documentation and workflows, including RFIs, submittals, meeting minutes and change order process, ensuring timely follow through and accurate project records.
• Support project cost tracking and change management processes, including monthly pay application reviews, change order evaluations, and cost reporting for assigned scopes.
• Identify opportunities to improve project cost efficiency, constructability, quality, and schedule performance.
• Support integration of procurement schedules, material tracking and trade sequencing activities with the project schedule
• Effectively communicate project updates and issues in team meetings while proactively advancing issues to timely resolution.
• Support implementation and tracking of quality procedures in coordination with project team members.
• Manage closeout activities for assigned trades including punch list, final documentation, warranties, and record drawings.
• Support implementation and tracking of project requirements related to local business participation, workforce development, and community hiring provisions coordinating with project teams and trade contractors to support compliance and project goals.
• Actively contribute to a collaborative and respectful team culture while continuously developing and applying professional knowledge of the construction process and project management practices.
• Support and contribute to special projects as requested.
• Take an active role in documenting and resolving site safety observations in coordination with field teams.
• Complete assigned safety education.

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or equivalent trade experience.
• 3 – 5 years of general construction experience required.
• Demonstrated ability to manage portions of a project independently (e.g., submittals, RFIs, cost tracking, scheduling updates).
• Ability to proactively collaborate with project teams, field staff, and subcontractors to ensure tasks are completed efficiently and issues are resolved promptly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, organizational skills, and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Experience with Procore, Building Connected, Plan Grid, Textura, eBuilder, Microsoft Suite or similar platforms strongly preferred.
• OSHA 30 certification preferred or ability to obtain within designated timeframe.

Benefits

• Personalized Health Care: Multiple medical, dental, and vision plan options; Employee Assistance Program
• Financial Benefits: Competitive salary and incentive packages; matching 401(k); FSAs and HSA; employer-paid life and AD&D insurance; paid leave & disability programs
• Social Wellness: 19+ days of PTO; mental health counseling & resources; fertility, surrogacy, and adoption assistance; volunteer days and donation matching
• Career Development: Learning & training programs; tuition & certification reimbursement; internal advancement opportunities

Formed in 1972, Related is the most prominent privately-owned real estate firm in the United States. Headquartered in New York City, the company has offices and major developments across the world. Related owns and manages a premier portfolio of assets valued at over $60 billion, including the 28-acre Hudson Yards neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side.  

Related believes in investing in its talent and cultivates a positive, team-oriented environment where every voice is valued. Employees are encouraged to boldly take on new challenges, transcend the status quo, and demonstrate strong entrepreneurial spirit. In its relentless commitment to excellence, Related works to foster an innovative approach in its team members so that they can positively impact the communities in which they conduct business. Learn more about Related at www.related.com.

Related Midwest, the Chicago office of Related Companies, is the preeminent developer of mixed-use properties, affordable housing communities, and luxury condominium and rental homes across Chicago. The company commands a portfolio of residential, mixed-use and master-planned properties, including pioneering projects like The 78, a 62-acre neighborhood development in the heart of downtown Chicago that will house a new soccer stadium for the Chicago Fire FC, and Quantum Shore Chicago, a 440-acre innovation campus in South Chicago anchored by the Illinois Quantum & Microelectronics Park. 

The firm’s other market-defining projects include 400 Lake Shore, a pair of luxury rental towers in Streeterville where the Chicago River meets Lake Michigan; One Bennett Park; The Row Fulton Market, one of Chicago’s first “80/20” buildings under Affordable Illinois legislation, with 20% of residences set aside as affordable housing; Lathrop, an ongoing restoration and redevelopment of the historic Julia C. Lathrop Homes on Chicago’s North Side into a mixed-income community; and Roosevelt Square, a multiphase redevelopment on the former ABLA Homes site on Chicago’s Near West Side. Related Midwest is also the largest developer of affordable housing in the Midwest, with more than 10,000 units, and has never converted an affordable unit to market-rate.

Related Midwest’s vertically integrated platform includes its award-winning general contracting division, LR Contracting Company. Founded in 1991 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Related Midwest, LR Contracting supports Related Midwest’s development projects across the Chicago area and the Midwest. As a full-service construction firm, LR Contracting works closely with Related Midwest’s project development teams, providing construction management and general contracting services for medium- to large-scale projects including affordable and market-rate residential, mixed-use, commercial, historic preservation and related infrastructure and site work.

Since its inception, Related Midwest and LR Contracting have been leaders in community-oriented investment and hiring practices, through which it supports and mentors entrepreneurial firms working toward independence in the industry. In addition to its own workforce initiatives, the company is a founding partner in HIRE360, a first-of-its-kind organization designed to expand professional development and employment opportunities in the trades.

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