Assistant Project Manager - MTA Transit
2 days ago
Freeport
About Peter Scalamandre & Sons, Inc. Peter Scalamandre & Sons, Inc. (PSSI) is one of the New York metropolitan area's leading heavy civil general contractors, with more than a century of experience delivering major public infrastructure. PSSI builds and rehabilitates the region's critical assets — transit stations, bridges, highways, airports, utilities, and power and water treatment facilities — and has extensive experience working in deep coordination with the area's major transit authorities and public agencies on complex, high-profile programs, including design-build delivery in active rail environments. Our vertically integrated operations — a large-scale equipment fleet, trucking, concrete, and crushing capabilities — allow PSSI to self-perform demanding heavy civil scopes and give our teams direct control over schedule, quality, and means and methods on the region's most challenging projects. About the Opportunity Peter Scalamandre & Sons, Inc. is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to support the delivery of a design-build transit project for the MTA in the New York metropolitan area. This role offers significant responsibility on a complex heavy civil project in an active rail environment, with direct involvement in cost management, subcontractor administration, agency coordination, and design-build execution — and a clear path to Project Manager on major transit infrastructure work. Position Summary The Assistant Project Manager works alongside the Project Manager and Construction Manager to administer the contract and drive the project's commercial and technical management. The role owns significant portions of the submittal, procurement, cost, and change management workflows, manages subcontractor relationships day to day, and serves as a key interface with the Owner's project team, the design team, and third parties. This position requires someone who can operate independently across both office and field functions on a fast-moving design-build program. Key Responsibilities • Manage the submittal, RFI, and shop drawing process, including design package coordination with the Engineer of Record and tracking through agency review cycles, • Administer subcontracts and purchase orders: scope development, buyout support, change orders, monthly requisitions, and compliance documentation, • Support cost management, including budget tracking, cost forecasting, monthly cost reports, and payment requisitions to the Owner, • Prepare and manage change management documentation — change notices, pricing proposals, force account/T&M records, and supporting merit narratives, • Coordinate utility relocation efforts with third-party utilities, including scheduling, documentation, and agency approvals, • Support project scheduling: interface with the scheduler on updates, track milestones and access windows, and flag delays and interferences for notice purposes, • Interface with the Owner's representatives on day-to-day contract administration; prepare agendas, meeting minutes, and progress reporting, • Support procurement of long-lead materials and equipment, including tracking fabrication and delivery against schedule needs, • Assist with QA/QC documentation, non-conformance resolution, and closeout deliverables including as-builts and O&M documentation, • Support compliance requirements, including certified payroll, M/WBE and DBE reporting, and agency-specific administrative requirements Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field, • Five (5) to eight (8) years of progressive project engineering / project management experience on heavy civil construction projects, • Demonstrated experience administering subcontracts, submittals, RFIs, change orders, and payment requisitions, • Strong working knowledge of construction cost management and change order pricing, • Proficiency with construction management software (Procore or similar), Primavera P6 familiarity, and strong Excel skills, • Ability to work on-site full-time, including nights, weekends, and outage windows as dictated by track access Preferred Qualifications • Prior experience on MTA agency or other transit/rail projects strongly preferred, • Experience with design-build project delivery and design-phase coordination, • Familiarity with public agency contract administration, including notice provisions, force account work, and M/WBE-DBE compliance, • Experience with work in active railroad rights-of-way, including flagging and outage coordination, • EIT certification or progress toward a NYS Professional Engineer license Working Conditions Field-based position at the project site, with work in an active railroad right-of-way. Night, weekend, and outage-window work should be expected as required by track access and railroad operating constraints. • Peter Scalamandre & Sons, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.