Associate Project Manager

Associate Project Manager

This role is responsible for planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to ensure the successful completion of specific program goals and objectives. The position involves ensuring that programs run within scope, time, and budget constraints. The role requires interfacing with task and functional leaders, subcontractors, and support personnel.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, secure, and manage resources to achieve program goals.
• Ensure all programs run within scope, time, and budget constraints.
• Communicate with peers to explain facts, basic analysis processes, and practices.
• Identify, define, and address problems within a narrow scope.
• Create and manipulate pivot tables, vlookups, and perform data analysis using Excel.
• Generate and submit reports in multiple formats/systems based on client/internal requests.
• Communicate effectively with various departments to provide updates and ensure project progression.
• Develop solutions to keep projects on track if timelines are not achievable.

Essential Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Project Management, Construction Management, or related field.
• Proficiency in Excel, including formula creation, pivot tables, vlookups, and x lookups.
• Strong communication skills for interacting with various departments.
• Experience with report generation using multiple software applications.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Desire to obtain PMP Certification.
• Experience with Jira, Scheduling, Finance, Proposal Writing, Power BI, Project Management, SharePoint, MS Project, Invoicing, Change Orders, and Cash Flow.

Work Environment

This position offers a hybrid work environment with three days in the office in Walled Lake and two days remote. The company is known for its significant growth, offering opportunities for upward mobility and potential relocation to other programs in different states. The organization is recognized as a leader in the power industry, with a strong track record of successful projects and client relationships.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Walled Lake, MI.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $29.00 - $50.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Walled Lake, MI.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Sep 18, 2026.

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.