Assistant Project Manager in Asheville, North Carolina at Barringer Construction

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About Us

At Barringer Construction, we've spent over a decade building more than just great spaces — we've built a culture, a reputation, and a team of Experience Crafters who take real pride in their work. As a Carolinas-based commercial general contractor with offices in Asheville, Charlotte, Greenville, and Raleigh, we deliver a client experience rooted in generosity, authenticity, honesty, and passion — what we call The Barringer Way. We're also 100% employee-owned through our ESOP, which means every person on the team shares in what we build together. That's part of why we've been named Business NC Magazine's #1 Best Employer in North Carolina two years running (2024 and 2025).

We're looking for a Preconstruction Manager to lead bid strategy, budgeting, and early-project planning for a wide range of commercial work. You'll be the person who sets projects up to win — and sets teams up to deliver.

Our benefits reflect how much we value our people: 100% employer-paid dental, vision, short-term disability, and life insurance; 401(k) with company match; flexible PTO; tuition reimbursement; wellness program; pet insurance; and annual charitable donations in your name. Apply today!

Job Title: Assistant Project Manager

Reports To: Project Manager or Sr. Project Manager

Status: Exempt

Essential Duties & Responsibilities: An Assistant Project Manager supports the Project Manager and the Superintendent throughout the construction process by facilitating actions that will complete the project successfully including participation in strategic planning, maintenance of the project budget, coordination and management of the overall project schedule, and maintaining positive vendor and client relationships.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must have the following skills and a baseline knowledge of commercial construction project management. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

1. Familiar with RFI process and working with project team to write and resolve RFIs
2. Ability to review and process submittals
3. Generate and manage material procurement logs
4. Organize and manage drawings and ensure project team is working with the latest updates
5. Assist Superintendent to resolve field and inspection issues
6. Generate meeting minutes for Owner and Subcontractor regular meetings
7. Work with Superintendent to track inspections and permit close out
8. Manage and document punch list
9. Manage and compile all close out documents at project completion for turnover to Owner
10. General schedule knowledge
11. Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.)
12. Experience with Procore

Education and/or Experience: 4 year college degree in a construction related field and/or 3+ years of experience in construction management.

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret building plans, schedules and product specification sheets, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports and business correspondence. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Math Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs, gantt charts, and data tables. Ability to help compile project pricing and track project budgets.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve problems and deal with a variety of customers, co-workers and subcontractors in a fast-paced work environment. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, blueprint/plan or schedule form in a timely manner. Ability to manage projects against the established schedule and budget and appropriately respond when actuals don’t match projections.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, visually observe and move around the construction site. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk or sit.Must be able to move about freely in an office and construction environment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision to work on a computer and to read plans and documents. Distance vision is required to operate vehicles and observe workers at a construction site.

Work Environment: The employee will spend time in an office environment or on indoor and outdoor construction sites with fluctuating temperatures, changes in elevation, occasional dusty conditions, and loud noises over 85 decibels.

The policy of Barringer Construction is to approach recruiting, hiring, promotion, compensation and professional development practices without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, creed, handicap, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

We are fully committed to the principles of equal employment. All employees are expected to participate in helping the Company maintain a climate that is free of workplace harassment and provides equal opportunity for all.

All forms of harassment by employees, vendors, visitors, customers, and clients are strictly prohibited and will not be tolerated. This includes sexual harassment and other forms of workplace harassment based upon an individual's sex, gender, race, religion, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, AIDS/HIV status, military service, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.