The Company

Lowe is a private real estate investor, developer and manager. Founded in 1972 by Chairman Robert J. Lowe, the company is owned by active and retired employees. Over the past 50 years, Lowe has acquired, developed or managed over $32 billion of real estate assets. Lowe maintains offices in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, Irvine, Denver, Seattle, Washington, DC, and Charleston, SC. Lowe uncovers and delivers value beyond what might be expected from a traditional real estate company. We value collaboration and partnership with others, welcoming new ideas and perspectives. Lowe is committed not to a single service, property type or location, but to mastering the process of building value in real estate. We develop, we invest, and we manage. We create hotel, multifamily, retail, and office properties. Often, we get the opportunity to combine all of these skills to create a new mixed-use environment. Through our foundation of steadfast values and innovative real estate services we strive to build value by creating meaningful experiences that connect people and place. We tailor our approach to the needs of each asset and the goals of each partner and find opportunity in solving complex challenges.

Summary of Duties

• Provide a combination of development and construction project coordination, management and administrative support for projects located in the Eastern Region, Washington, D.C. metro area.
• Perform day to day assistant project management activities of the external and internal team for the completion of design, pre-construction, permit, incoming utility service, construction, and construction document compliance.

• Provide on-site assistant project management on assigned projects.
• Assist in the procurement of contracted services including prequalification, preparation of the RFP/RFQ package, analyzing responses, and making the award recommendation.
• Manage contracted services agreement workflow from initial draft through full execution including securing necessary approvals, signatures, and distribution.
• Prepare and maintain contract procurement tracking log from issuance of RFP/RFQ through full execution and distribution of signed agreement.
• Assist with drafting and administration of monthly project debt and investor reporting to internal and external clients.
• Prepare project status reports, compiling, maintaining and evaluating project logs and supporting information for inclusion into monthly reports.
• Assist accounting with invoice processing, job cost coding, budget uploads and revisions, monthly draw requests.
• Prepare and maintain contract change order logs for each contracted service provider including submitted and forecasted cost changes.
• Attend project meetings, create and issue meeting agenda and follow up action items as requested by supervisor, review meeting notes published by others for accuracy and completeness.
• Prepare and maintain client commitment tracking log for deliverables and or actions agreed to by client associated with the project.
• Prepare and maintain a tracking log for permits and incoming utility services, both temporary and permanent, and developer posted bonds.
• Prepare and maintain a tracking log for certificates of insurance and lien waivers provided by contracted service providers.
• Collect all project close out deliverables from contracted service providers and transmitting to property management (and others as requested).
• File management, including an emphasis toward paperless filing; Establish physical file structure to parallel e-filing; manage conversion from corporate network drive shares to intranet sites and extra-net file sharing.
• Coordinate and schedule project meetings.
• Coordinate, organize and manage setup of temporary on-site construction office (IT, furniture, office supplies) and work at jobsite location.

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably in construction management, engineering or architecture, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 2 to 5 years of project construction management experience involving estimating, scheduling, on-site management, and contracting with an emphasis on large scale multifamily and urban mixed-use development projects.
• Experience working with project accounting processes including budgets, invoices, and draw requests.
• Excellent written and oral communication capabilities which demonstrate superior interpersonal and team-building skills in managing internal and external client, consultant and contractor relationships.
• Ability to enhance high-quality relationships with current and prospective clients and partners, vendors and consultants, and other members of the business community in accordance with Lowe’s mission statement and core values.
• Demonstrate sound and reasoned judgment, promote high quality execution of work product and deliverables by the team, and act with the highest ethical standards and integrity.
• Knowledge and familiarity with local market conditions, permitting process, consultant and construction resources in Washington, D.C. a plus.
• Superior knowledge of MS Excel, MS Word, and Smartsheets.

Compensation: $100,000 - 135,000 annually, plus eligibility for annual bonus. We offer a competitive benefits package for full-time, regular team members, which includes group medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits, as well as critical illness and accident insurance. Additionally, we offer participation in pre-tax flexible benefits plans that include healthcare and dependent care reimbursement, as well as an employee assistance program. We also offer paid vacation, paid sick time, paid holidays, and are proud to provide participation in a 401(k) plan with a company match.