The experience you will gain from this internship will help you in whatever field you decide to pursue.

What you will learn in the role (hands-on)

  • Estimating
  • Perfect your time-management and organization skills
  • The steps of Project Management
  • Follow-up
  • The use of various MS Office and Project Management software
  • How to build/maintain relationships with architects and general contractors
  • Perfect your negotiation skills

Experience

Any experience that would demonstrate the ability to schedule, coordinate, negotiate, follow-up, and organize would be desirable.

About the Role- Daily contributions and responsibilities:

  • Learn what projects the PM is dealing with and where they are in the process.
  • Assist with the project estimating process by securing vendor/material cost and calculating labor, then estimating a price in order to meet a certain Gross Profit goal.
  • Read daily emails written to the Project Manager. From there, reacting and scheduling what needs to happen next to meet the request and create a fan club.
  • Save important emails/meeting notes to the shared folder system
  • Schedule and assign tasks from beginning to end of each Project, including those that are your responsibility (using monday.com and MS Office 365).
  • If time allows and as directed by the PM, assist with:
    • Order materials and schedule other subcontractors that are needed for the project
    • Make travel arrangements
    • Prepare install and production documentation
    • Prepare and submit Permits
    • Track, assign and communicate various deadlines
    • Quality check production files and estimates
    • Daily assess projects and tasks, reprioritize schedules if necessary
    • Conduct on-site observation of projects
    • Provide all documentation needed to successfully close-out a project and prepare Pay Applications

If you demonstrate these Personal Qualities — it is a fit:

  • You are a master at organizing and scheduling.
  • You confidently deal with ambiguity, mitigate risk and move forward, effectively cope with change.
  • You enjoy working with clients and are great at articulating questions and solutions.
  • You take initiative, are accountable, and self-directed.
  • You enjoy a challenge and feel comfortable suggesting the best approach or solution.
  • You are flexible, compatible, and able to work with interruptions.
  • You are efficient, tactful, pleasant, and patient.
  • You love to learn and desire to increase knowledge and skills.
  • You like to do your research, establish priorities, and highlight what is important.
  • You maintain order and sustain systems and figure out ways to reduce inconsistencies and inefficiencies.
  • You are good at documenting your decision process so that others can pick up where you left off.
  • You are deadline and goal driven.
  • You can quickly assess what looks “wrong” or doesn’t make sense.
  • You can visualize solutions and sketch out your ideas.
  • You are creative and resourceful.
  • You have excellent interpersonal skills, are a team player, able to handle tight deadlines and fast execution while being detailed-oriented.

Software used daily:

  • Microsoft Office 365 – calendars and emails
  • monday.com
  • Excel
  • Quickbooks Enterprise