Project Manager, Construction

3 weeks ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States American Tower Corporation Full time

The Team

We are seeking a Project Manager, Construction to join American Tower's U.S. Tower division's Construction and Development team. The team delivers all new assets and customer services programs and manages capital improvement and structural redevelopment projects across the division's portfolio. Day to day you will administer, coordinate, and oversee field-based construction activities on assigned projects across the United States. You will partner cross-functionally to ensure assets are maintained, repaired, and preserved through sound and consistent procedures. You will ensure safety, quality, a high level of service to internal and external constituents, and consistent communication to all key internal and external stakeholders.

What You Can Offer Us

  • Manage all aspects of construction projects' lifecycles in a high-volume environment. This includes planning, budgeting, prioritizing, scheduling, execution, close-out review and approval, labor and material vendor relationships, reporting, and analytics.
  • Utilize Siterra to input and update milestones daily, employing bulk uploads for efficiency. Communicate updates and timelines to stakeholders through metrics reporting.
  • Generate purchase orders, review and create change orders, and generate requests for information for vendors.
  • Strategically select and manage vendors, developing plans to optimize workload distributions nationwide to minimize mobilization fees and enhance crews' efficiencies.
  • Support the estimating team as required by developing estimates used as budgets for managed networks, new site development, capital improvements, strategic relocations, and drop and swaps.
  • Implement operational procedures to ensure consistent and continuous compliance by all employees and vendors with applicable safety and regulatory requirements, standards, and protocols. Achieve this primarily through construction plan reviews, coordinating with engineering, and thorough closeout document review.
  • Ensure all product lines adhere to standards outlined in structural analyses, scopes of work, and engineering documents.
  • Proactively identify potential risks and collaborate with management to develop preventative action plans.
  • Troubleshoot, negotiate, and effectively mediate any client or subcontractor problems or complaints that arise at the site level.
  • Provide to internal and external stakeholders regular project level updates on forecasted and actual production.
  • Other duties as assigned.

What You Need to Succeed

  • Associate degree or equivalent work experience in the wireless site development industry required. Bachelor's degree preferred.
  • Minimum of 5 years of project management and/or vendor management experience required.
  • Sound financial analysis, reporting, and project budgeting skills.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively.
  • Strong organization skills, including the ability to accomplish multiple tasks within the agreed upon timeframes through effective prioritization of duties and functions in a fast-paced and high-volume environment.
  • Ability to work with different functional groups and levels of employees to effectively and professionally achieve results.
  • Approximately 10% travel may be required to support the position's responsibilities.
American Tower is a global digital infrastructure company serving customers through tower sites and other real estate solutions that support connectivity and opportunity, focused on achieving our vision of Building a More Connected World. Our success is rooted in the potential of our people and the power of local teams at our offices and sites across 25 countries.

We are one of the largest global Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and a publicly traded (NYSE:AMT), Fortune 500 Company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The next decade will be an exciting time as we evolve our infrastructure to meet tomorrow's needs and position our people to elevate their impact, their potential, and our shared success. Come grow your career with us

For more information about how American Tower is building a more connected world, visit

American Tower is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, marital status, familial status, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, reproductive decisions, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.PDN-9ccefdd d2-b728-b27443e35cba

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