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What if you could discover the way to an exciting and rewarding career? The path is closer than you may think. Connect with us, explore the possibilities, and see why Asplundh is 36,000 strong and growing.
About Asplundh Engineering Services (AES)
Asplundh Engineering Services (AES) brings over 100 years of expertise to deliver top-notch engineering, design, planning, and testing services for transmission, distribution, substation, and renewable infrastructure markets across the U.S.
As part of the Asplundh family, AES benefits from extensive resources and a century of experience. Together, we provide utilities with comprehensive end-to-end services, from design to construction, testing, and maintenance, ensuring reliability and peace of mind.
At AES, we believe in tackling challenges together with our customers, leveraging our collective experience and resources to achieve success in every project.
Role Overview
As an Assistant Project Manager, you will play a key role in supporting the successful execution of large-scale underground utility infrastructure projects as part of the Underground Cable Modernization Program. Working closely with project managers, engineering teams, utility stakeholders, contractors, and leadership, you will help coordinate schedules, budgets, outage activities, reporting, and project controls to ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and on time.
This position is ideal for a highly organized professional who enjoys managing multiple priorities, communicating with diverse stakeholders, and contributing to critical infrastructure projects that enhance electric system reliability and resiliency.
How You Will Make an Impact
- Support Project Managers in the planning, coordination, and execution of Underground Cable Modernization Program initiatives.
- Assist with project schedule development, maintenance, tracking, and reporting to ensure timely completion of project milestones.
- Monitor project budgets, forecasts, expenditures, and financial performance while supporting cost tracking and reporting activities.
- Coordinate outage schedules and work closely with utility operations, engineering, construction, and field personnel to support project execution.
- Prepare executive-level presentations, project summaries, status updates, and performance reports for internal and client leadership teams.
- Assist with contract administration activities, including tracking deliverables, reviewing documentation, managing approvals, and supporting compliance requirements.
- Maintain project documentation, action items, meeting minutes, risk logs, and project records to ensure accurate project controls and reporting.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, contractors, consultants, and utility stakeholders to identify and resolve project issues while maintaining strong client relationships.
What You Will Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline preferred.
- 2-5 years of experience supporting project management, project coordination, utility operations, engineering, construction, or infrastructure projects.
- Experience developing executive-level communications, presentations, reports, and stakeholder correspondence.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively at all levels of an organization.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
- Experience with project scheduling, budgeting, reporting, and project controls activities preferred.
- Knowledge of utility, transmission, distribution, underground cable, or infrastructure projects is highly desirable.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a commitment to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic, fast-paced project environment.
Work Environment & Preferences
- Work Model: Hybrid
- Primary Office Location: Westwood, Massachusetts
- Preferred Schedule: Full-time
- Travel Requirements: Occasional local travel for meetings, project coordination activities, and site visits as required.
- Physical Requirements: Primarily office-based work involving extended periods of computer use. Occasional site visits may require walking project locations and utilizing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).
Why Work Here?
The work we perform at Asplundh is the collective effort of unique individuals. They are people with grit and heart who show up with a diversity of skills, backgrounds, and perspectives. It’s a place where individual and cultural differences are respected and valued. It’s a place where we are stronger together. Where collaboration and teamwork thrive. Where our authentic selves can flourish. The common thread for field workers and office professionals alike is that we truly care about the environment, each other, and the communities we serve.
In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:
- Support critical utility modernization initiatives that improve reliability and resiliency for communities.
- Work alongside experienced project managers, engineers, and utility professionals.
- Develop expertise in project controls, utility operations, outage coordination, and stakeholder management.
- Build executive communication and leadership skills while supporting high-visibility infrastructure programs.
- Grow your career within a leading engineering and utility services organization.
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation for this position will be based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and market conditions.
We offer a competitive total rewards package that may include:
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage beginning on day one
- Retirement savings plan
- Company-paid life insurance
- Supplemental life insurance options
- Long-term disability coverage
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee discount programs and additional employee resources
Benefits are available to eligible employees and subject to plan terms and eligibility requirements.
Assistant Project Manager
What if you could discover the way to an exciting and rewarding career? The path is closer than you may think. Connect with us, explore the possibilities, and see why Asplundh is 36,000 strong and growing.
About Asplundh Engineering Services (AES)
Asplundh Engineering Services (AES) brings over 100 years of expertise to deliver top-notch engineering, design, planning, and testing services for transmission, distribution, substation, and renewable infrastructure markets across the U.S.
As part of the Asplundh family, AES benefits from extensive resources and a century of experience. Together, we provide utilities with comprehensive end-to-end services, from design to construction, testing, and maintenance, ensuring reliability and peace of mind.
At AES, we believe in tackling challenges together with our customers, leveraging our collective experience and resources to achieve success in every project.
Role Overview
As an Assistant Project Manager, you will play a key role in supporting the successful execution of large-scale underground utility infrastructure projects as part of the Underground Cable Modernization Program. Working closely with project managers, engineering teams, utility stakeholders, contractors, and leadership, you will help coordinate schedules, budgets, outage activities, reporting, and project controls to ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and on time.
This position is ideal for a highly organized professional who enjoys managing multiple priorities, communicating with diverse stakeholders, and contributing to critical infrastructure projects that enhance electric system reliability and resiliency.
How You Will Make an Impact
- Support Project Managers in the planning, coordination, and execution of Underground Cable Modernization Program initiatives.
- Assist with project schedule development, maintenance, tracking, and reporting to ensure timely completion of project milestones.
- Monitor project budgets, forecasts, expenditures, and financial performance while supporting cost tracking and reporting activities.
- Coordinate outage schedules and work closely with utility operations, engineering, construction, and field personnel to support project execution.
- Prepare executive-level presentations, project summaries, status updates, and performance reports for internal and client leadership teams.
- Assist with contract administration activities, including tracking deliverables, reviewing documentation, managing approvals, and supporting compliance requirements.
- Maintain project documentation, action items, meeting minutes, risk logs, and project records to ensure accurate project controls and reporting.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, contractors, consultants, and utility stakeholders to identify and resolve project issues while maintaining strong client relationships.
What You Will Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline preferred.
- 2-5 years of experience supporting project management, project coordination, utility operations, engineering, construction, or infrastructure projects.
- Experience developing executive-level communications, presentations, reports, and stakeholder correspondence.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact effectively at all levels of an organization.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
- Experience with project scheduling, budgeting, reporting, and project controls activities preferred.
- Knowledge of utility, transmission, distribution, underground cable, or infrastructure projects is highly desirable.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a commitment to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic, fast-paced project environment.
Work Environment & Preferences
- Work Model: Hybrid
- Primary Office Location: Westwood, Massachusetts
- Preferred Schedule: Full-time
- Travel Requirements: Occasional local travel for meetings, project coordination activities, and site visits as required.
- Physical Requirements: Primarily office-based work involving extended periods of computer use. Occasional site visits may require walking project locations and utilizing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE).
Why Work Here?
The work we perform at Asplundh is the collective effort of unique individuals. They are people with grit and heart who show up with a diversity of skills, backgrounds, and perspectives. It’s a place where individual and cultural differences are respected and valued. It’s a place where we are stronger together. Where collaboration and teamwork thrive. Where our authentic selves can flourish. The common thread for field workers and office professionals alike is that we truly care about the environment, each other, and the communities we serve.
In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:
- Support critical utility modernization initiatives that improve reliability and resiliency for communities.
- Work alongside experienced project managers, engineers, and utility professionals.
- Develop expertise in project controls, utility operations, outage coordination, and stakeholder management.
- Build executive communication and leadership skills while supporting high-visibility infrastructure programs.
- Grow your career within a leading engineering and utility services organization.
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation for this position will be based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and market conditions.
We offer a competitive total rewards package that may include:
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage beginning on day one
- Retirement savings plan
- Company-paid life insurance
- Supplemental life insurance options
- Long-term disability coverage
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee discount programs and additional employee resources
Benefits are available to eligible employees and subject to plan terms and eligibility requirements.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an Assistant Project Manager
Verify your degree aligns with PERM requirements
PERM labor certification requires the employer's job description to match your actual credentials. Assistant Project Manager roles typically require a bachelor's in construction management, engineering, or a related field, so confirm your foreign degree equivalency before applying.
Use O*NET to benchmark your specialty
The O*NET occupation profile for Assistant Project Manager lists the specific skills, tasks, and education requirements DOL uses to evaluate PERM filings. Matching your resume language to those benchmarks strengthens both your application and the labor certification audit trail.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Construction, infrastructure, and engineering firms that have filed PERM certifications before already understand the recruitment documentation burden. Prioritize these employers since they're less likely to withdraw sponsorship mid-process due to unfamiliarity with the timeline.
Search sponsoring employers through Migrate Mate
Filter by green card sponsorship history to find Assistant Project Manager openings at employers who have already navigated PERM. Migrate Mate surfaces this filing data so you can focus outreach on companies with a documented track record of sponsoring this role.
Negotiate the job offer before PERM recruitment begins
The PERM process locks in the job duties and minimum requirements stated in the initial posting. Get the role scope, title, and qualification language agreed upon before your employer places the required recruitment advertisements, since changes after filing can restart the process.
Understand EB-3 priority date movement for your country
EB-3 has no annual numerical cap within each category, but per-country limits apply. Check the USCIS Visa Bulletin monthly to track your priority date cutoff, since wait times vary significantly depending on your country of birth.
Green Card Assistant Project Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Assistant Project Manager role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Assistant Project Manager positions qualify under EB-3, which covers skilled workers and professionals with a bachelor's degree. If the role requires an advanced degree or the candidate holds a master's or higher in a relevant field like engineering or construction management, EB-2 may apply. Your employer's job description and your credentials together determine which category fits.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary work visa subject to an annual lottery, while EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship leads to permanent residency with no lottery at the petition stage. The PERM labor certification process takes longer upfront, often 12 to 24 months before USCIS even adjudicates the I-140, but the outcome is lawful permanent residency rather than a renewable temporary status.
What does the PERM labor certification process require from the employer?
The employer must conduct a formal DOL-supervised recruitment campaign to demonstrate that no qualified U.S. workers are available for the position. This includes placing job advertisements in specific formats and tracking all applicants. The Assistant Project Manager job description submitted to DOL becomes the binding basis for the I-140 petition that follows.
How can I find Assistant Project Manager jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you filter job listings by employment-based green card sponsorship history, so you can identify employers who have already completed PERM filings for similar roles. This is more reliable than asking during outreach, since many employers with sponsorship capacity don't advertise it explicitly in job postings.
Can I change jobs after my employer files for PERM on my behalf?
You can change employers before your I-140 is approved without losing progress, but the new employer would need to restart the PERM process. Once your I-140 is approved and your priority date is current, AC21 portability may allow you to change to a same or similar role without losing your place in the green card queue.