Assistant Project Manager

Job Title

Assistant Project Manager

Job Description Summary

This role is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing resources to ensure that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. Assistant Project Manager will work closely with architects, contractors, and other stakeholders to ensure that projects are executed according to plan.

Job Description

About the Role:

• Monitor execution at site to ensure that civil/external works are carried out as per approved drawings, specifications, and design intent.
• Review and ensure workability and adherence to standards in method statements submitted by contractors for each civil work item (e.g., subgrade preparation, concreting, paver laying, trenching, backfilling, manhole construction).
• Ensure alignment of site execution with approved methodologies, especially for infrastructure services and external development works.
• Maintain all documentation related to assigned external civil works (inspection reports, checklists, site instructions, as-built records).
• Anticipate and flag imminent bottlenecks in external work progress; recommend and implement corrective actions to avoid delays.
• Advise contractors on improving productivity of labour and equipment for civil works (e.g., batching, curing, rework minimization).
• Monitor procurement and delivery of civil-related materials, equipment, and labour (e.g., kerbstones, concrete, pipes etc) in accordance with work schedules; suggest improvements where necessary.
• Assist QA/QC team in verifying quality of civil works, including compaction, levels, slopes, and materials testing.
• Support safety team in implementing safety standards, particularly for high-risk external works like excavation, trenching, lifting operations, and road works.
• Escalate to the project manager any issues concerning civil work progress, safety violations, quality deviations, or resource shortages.
• Monitor milestones and budgets related to civil infrastructure, and initiate actions to minimize rework or non-conformance costs.
• Participate in risk management for external works, identifying potential issues (e.g., water table, unstable soil, third-party services) and suggesting mitigations.
• Ensure implementation of system requirements for civil works during installation and testing (e.g., manholes, inspection chambers, slope testing for drainage).
• Ensure the Construction & Safety Management Plan is implemented for all external civil activities.
  
  

About You

• B.E Civil with 5 to 10 years of experience in buildings.
• Technical awareness of civil, electro-mechanical, and architectural works
• Excellent organizational and motivational skills
• Outstanding attention to detail and observation ability
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities
  
  

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;

• Being part of a growing global company;
• Career development and a promote from within culture;
• An organisation 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 a 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.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.

We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.

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