Associate Director

Lead the Cost Management team on specific client commissions, making sure that the team delivers on all accountabilities during bid advice phase, pre-con, construction, and closeout.
Interface with the client, stakeholders, and other consultants, during bid advice phase, pre-con, construction, and closeout, making sure that communication is direct, clear, data driven and conclusive using client specific templates.
Identify opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates, and products based on lessons learned across clusters and from stakeholder feedback, adjusting it on a campus level to address personal client necessities without complying with contractual obligations.
Ensure that key information and learning generated from each commission inputted into internal databases and shared among all clusters not only in the region but globally.
Process improvement – Identify and act upon ways to improve internal systems and processes of bid evaluation, contract compliance, buyout assessment, payment application assessment, purchase orders control, change orders assessment and recommendation, contingency requests analysis and control, and financial closeout analysis and recommendation.
Lead proposals for new work or variations for existing projects using client specific templates after gathering information with RFIs and Scope of Work specific criteria.
Attend relevant networking events and other promotional opportunities promoting the cost management delivery methodology used across the North America region and also Quantity Surveyor methodologies based on RICS commonly used across Europe and other continents.
Staff management – Input into the formal management of staff with delineation of scope, creation and guidance of career plan and recurrent feedback strategies, and recruitment interviews.
Undertake Staff Performance reviews.
Financial management – Utilize tools including Microsoft D365 to keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission, keeping track of Purchase Orders balances, price escalations, resource distribution, and expenses management.
Review and participate with stakeholders (design team/ general contractor / owner / subcontractors / consultants), in the development of the cost estimates using tools including Bluebeam, Revit, Autocad, Microsoft Excel, RSMeans, Procore, and internal benchmarks.
Reconcile changes that occur over the planning phase and assist the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate and following Unit Key specific criteria based on client Standard Operational procedures and market practices.
Quality Control – Ensure compliance with quality standards and participation in ISO audits and SOX audits.
Communicate or meet with stakeholders (general contractor / owner / subcontractors) to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update, forecast possible and probable changes, savings, cost reallocations, underruns and overruns, subcontractor performance, contingency uses, insurance uses and market escalations.
Prepare written comments to the general contractor’s submissions, including the executive summary, overall trade comment, specific area and cost element comments and subcontractor specific comments. Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA, subs, quantities from A/Es.
RELATED OCCUPATION:
Cost Consultant or any other job title performing the following job duties:
Interfacing with the client, stakeholders, and other consultants, during bid advice phase, pre-con, construction, and closeout, making sure that communication is direct, clear, data driven and conclusive using client specific templates.
Identifying opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates, and products based on lessons learned across clusters and from stakeholder feedback, adjusting it on a campus level to address personal client necessities without complying with contractual obligations.
Process improvement – Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes of bid evaluation, contract compliance, buyout assessment, payment application assessment, purchase orders control, change orders assessment and recommendation, contingency requests analysis and control, and financial closeout analysis and recommendation.
Leading proposals for new work or variations for existing projects using client specific templates after gathering information with RFIs and Scope of Work specific criteria.
Staff management – Inputting into the formal management of staff with delineation of scope, creation and guidance of career plan and recurrent feedback strategies, and recruitment interviews.
Financial management – Utilizing tools including Microsoft D365 to keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission, keeping track of Purchase Orders balances, price escalations, resource distribution, and expenses management.
Reviewing and participating with stakeholders (design team/ general contractor / owner / subcontractors / consultants), in the development of the cost estimates using tools including Bluebeam, Revit, Autocad, Microsoft Excel, RSMeans, Procore, and internal benchmarks.
Reconciling changes that occur over the planning phase and assist the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate and following Unit Key specific criteria based on client Standard Operational procedures and market practices.
Quality Control – Ensuring compliance with quality standards and participation in ISO audits and SOX audits.
Communicating or meeting with stakeholders (general contractor / owner / subcontractors) to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update, forecast possible and probable changes, savings, cost reallocations, underruns and overruns, subcontractor performance, contingency uses, insurance uses and market escalations.
Preparing written comments to the general contractor’s submissions, including the executive summary, overall trade comment, specific area and cost element comments and subcontractor specific comments. Coordinating all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA, subs, quantities from A/Es.
JOB TIME: Full Time
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT: Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and 6 years of experience in job offered or 6 years of experience in the Related Occupation.

Skills
Excel, Process Improvement, AutoCAD, Revit, Quality Control

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
No