Construction Consultant

Description

Company Description

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

Work Product Creation, Project Management, Coordination with Team Members

• Analyze construction project documentation, including contracts, schedules, daily reports, RFIs, submittals, change orders, meeting minutes, cost records, and correspondence.
• Assist in the preparation of technical analyses related to schedule delays, disruption, acceleration, productivity loss, and cost impacts.
• Develop and maintain construction schedule analyses utilizing CPM scheduling methodologies.
• Perform schedule updates, forensic schedule reviews, and delay impact assessments.
• Evaluate project performance against baseline plans, milestones, budgets, and contractual obligations.
• Prepare written reports, exhibits, presentations, and technical memoranda for clients and dispute proceedings.
• Develop project timelines, fact chronologies, and supporting documentation for claims and dispute engagements.
• Assist in quantification and analysis of damages associated with delays, disruptions, inefficiencies, and changed work.
• Produce clear, accurate, and defensible work products suitable for mediation, arbitration, litigation, or negotiation.
• Support expert witness teams through research, analysis, document organization, and exhibit preparation.

Operations

• Manage multiple client engagements simultaneously while maintaining quality and meeting deadlines.
• Participate in project meetings, client interviews, site visits, and document review sessions.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of consultants, construction professionals, attorneys, accountants, and industry experts.
• Maintain project records and ensure adherence to internal quality control procedures.
• Assist with discovery efforts, data collection, and project information management.
• Support business development activities through proposal preparation, market research, and client relationship management.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, analytical methodologies, and best practices within the claims and disputes practice.
• Communicate findings effectively to clients and project stakeholders.
• Travel periodically for project site visits, client meetings, and engagement support activities.

Qualifications & Competencies

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree and 5 years of related experience, a Master's degree and 3 years of related experience, or 8 years of related experience and no degree.
• Experience working on commercial, institutional, infrastructure, industrial, healthcare, life sciences, or large-scale construction projects.
• Understanding of construction project delivery methodologies, including Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, CM-at-Risk, and Integrated Project Delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to review and interpret construction schedules, contracts, and cost documentation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

Knowledge & Skills

• Cost tracking, forecasting, earned value concepts, and commercial management practices.
• Construction contracts, change management, and project administration processes.
• Claims preparation, documentation standards, and dispute resolution fundamentals.
• Construction means and methods across multiple project types.