Assistant Project Manager - Commercial Real Estate

Job Description

Job Description

Steer mixed-use, institutional, commercial, and residential projects from pre-development through construction. You own the schedule, budget, and contract administration while getting hands-on exposure to design, finance, and permitting. This is the owner's seat: you represent the project across consultants, contractors, and municipalities.

Why this role

• Breadth most PMs never get. Design coordination, finance, permitting, and entitlement in one job, across four asset types, from pre-development through construction.
• Real ownership. You run budgets, pay apps, change orders, and procurement, plus construction meetings and municipal coordination. 60% of your week is on sites and in meetings, not buried in admin.
• Close to the decisions. High exposure to leadership with structured mentorship, in a fast-growing, entrepreneurial firm.

What you'll do

• Manage design and construction teams across development and third-party OPM projects
• Own schedules, budgets, and contract administration (pay apps, change orders, procurement)
• Maintain documentation: agendas, minutes, logs, drawing sets, submittals
• Track permitting milestones and drive the entitlement process
• Develop RFPs and review consultant and contractor bids
• Support feasibility studies, design coordination, and funding applications

You'll need

• 3 to 5 years managing construction or real estate development projects (owner's-rep / OPM weighted)
• Command of schedules, budgets, and contract administration
• Willingness to be on sites and in front of municipal officials regularly
• Strong documentation discipline

Preferred: permitting and entitlement experience, RFP and bid review, feasibility and funding-application support, Procore / MS Project / Primavera.