GC Project Engineer Vs Sub APM
Mid 20’s. Was working in the field and saw an opening as an APM for another division in the same company and went for it. They brought me in. I’ve learned a lot and get paid salary 70k and only have a few months of experience.
There is talk about me eventually becoming a pm that would include salary and commission. 130k base and commission give or take. Timeline would be 2-5 years depending on my performance. Other APM jumped from 70 to 90 2 years in with same title.
Pro’s: lots of responsibility, growth, talks of advancement, individually, talks about expansion and market share. Small family business 100million across all divisions. Lots of for lifers at this company.
Cons: eventually will handle 12-20 jobs ranging from 200k to 5million, lots of headaches per usual as a pm, huge product line and several specs/scopes a single APM/PM handles. Very small, if one PM leaves the division crumbles. PMs do business development as well as manage projects. Like going to trade events and taking GC PMs out for dinners and design teams. One general super holds the fort down for subordinate supers and foreman and experiencing health issues sadly. Nepotism due to family business so very very cliquey. Frat guy atmosphere at times, which if fine for the most part but sometimes it gets out of hand.
Other side of the coin:
Top 10 ENR project engineer opportunity
Will be working with self performing division that is only one scope.
20k raise. Waiting on more details.
Would think there would be less headache in this position by having no middle man for submittals, shop drawings, RFIs, etc. Doing this at current job with many projects, many GCs, and different products is a huge pain.
I feel in a way it would be betrayal to leave this early but I see a lot of vulnerability at current company. Head PM says he hates his job lol (guy holding down sales and PM side).
Would really appreciate your opinion. I don’t think I would honestly want to go any further than being a senior project engineer career wise to be honest. Or PM for a sub.