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Project Assistant roles can qualify for EB-3 green card sponsorship when employers file PERM labor certification with DOL, documenting that no qualified U.S. worker is available. EB-2 sponsorship is possible where the position requires an advanced degree. Securing sponsorship early in your job search puts you on the path to lawful permanent residency.
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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 a Project Assistant
Align your credentials with PERM requirements
PERM requires your employer to prove the role's minimum requirements match what the job genuinely needs. If your degree or experience exceeds the posted requirements, it can complicate the application, so document exactly how your background meets the stated minimum.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Project Assistant roles appear across construction, engineering, and professional services firms. Focus on organizations that have previously sponsored foreign workers through PERM, since they already have the legal infrastructure and internal appetite to file on your behalf.
Search sponsoring Project Assistant jobs on Migrate Mate
Finding employers who actively sponsor green cards is the hardest part of the process. Migrate Mate filters Project Assistant openings by sponsorship history, so you're applying to employers who have already committed to the PERM process for similar roles.
Verify the prevailing wage before accepting an offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your specific location and job duties. Use the OFLC Wage Search to check the wage level before you negotiate, since a salary below the prevailing threshold will cause your PERM application to fail.
Negotiate PERM filing into your employment contract
Many Project Assistant offers don't mention green card sponsorship by default. Raise it during the offer stage, not after you start, and confirm whether the employer will cover PERM and I-140 filing costs, since these obligations are legally the employer's responsibility.
Understand EB-3 priority dates before your I-140 is filed
Once USCIS approves your I-140, your priority date determines when you can file for adjustment of status. For most countries outside China and India, EB-3 current dates allow relatively faster movement, but check the Visa Bulletin monthly so you're not caught off guard.
Green Card Project Assistant: Frequently Asked Questions
Can a Project Assistant role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most Project Assistant positions qualify under EB-3 as skilled workers, since the role typically requires a bachelor's degree or relevant experience. EB-2 sponsorship is available if the employer can demonstrate the position genuinely requires an advanced degree. Your employer files PERM labor certification first, and the specific EB category is determined by the minimum requirements documented in that application.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for a Project Assistant?
H-1B visa sponsorship is temporary, capped annually, and subject to a lottery. Green card sponsorship through PERM and I-140 leads to permanent residency with no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most nationalities. The process takes longer, typically two to four years from PERM filing to approval, but it eliminates the uncertainty of annual lottery cycles and status renewal.
Where can I find Project Assistant jobs where the employer will sponsor a green card?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for foreign professionals seeking employment-based green card sponsorship. You can filter Project Assistant roles by employers with documented PERM filing history, which removes the guesswork of asking each company individually whether they've sponsored before.
What role does the PERM process play in sponsoring a Project Assistant position?
PERM is the first mandatory step in most EB-2 and EB-3 green card cases. Your employer must conduct a DOL-supervised recruitment process to demonstrate no qualified U.S. worker is available for the Project Assistant role. DOL must certify the application before USCIS can adjudicate the I-140 immigrant petition. The recruitment and audit requirements make early planning essential.
What happens to my green card case if I change employers after my I-140 is approved?
If your I-140 has been approved for at least 180 days, federal AC21 portability rules allow you to change employers or move to a similar role without losing your priority date. For Project Assistant and related project coordination roles, the new position must be in the same or a substantially similar occupational category as the one on the original petition.