Assistant Project Manager

This Opportunity

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 candidate will be operating as a critical advisor, this role directly supports a Senior Project Director and an integrated multidisciplinary team overseeing a major industrial capital construction project.

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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