Design Build Commercial and Risk Director

HNTB

Bellevue, WA

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JOB DETAILS

SALARY

$267,531.09–$557,356.43 Per Year

SKILLS

Affirmative Action, Air Intelligence Agency (AIA), Analysis Skills, Auditing, Best Practices, Bid Analysis, Change Management, Coaching, Communication Skills, Construction, Contract Analysis, Contract Management, Contract Negotiation, Customer Relations, Disability Accommodations, Documentation Review, EEO Regulations, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Genetics, Human Resources, Human Resources Management, Interpret Regulations, Leadership, Legal, Legal Documents, Legal Support Skills, Maintain Compliance, Mentoring, Negotiation Skills, Operational Support, Operations Management, Organizational Skills, Policy Development, Policy Implementation, Procedure Development, Procedure Implementation, Professional Engineer, Project/Program Management, Recruiting/Staffing Agency, Request for Proposals (RFP), Risk, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Staff Policies, Strategic Analysis, Team Player

LOCATION

Bellevue, WA

POSTED

30+ days ago

**What We're Looking For** At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners. This opportunity entails being responsible for directing contract strategy, risk management, and contractor relationships across the national design-build portfolio. Leads complex pre-award and post-award negotiations in coordination with legal and corporate contracting teams, ensuring consistent contract terms, effective risk mitigation, and alignment with organizational objectives. Provides leadership and mentorship to commercial and project operations teams while supporting dispute resolution, change management, and alternative delivery best practices. Builds and maintains strong relationships with national contractors, internal business units, and client stakeholders to drive successful project delivery and long-term partnership growth. \*This position can be located in any HNTB office **What You'll Do:** + Directs the Design-Build strategy for contract negotiations with Contractors in coordination with Corporate Contracting and Legal Services, while maintaining consistent contract terms and conditions across the entire design-build portfolio with all Contractor clients and construction joint ventures. + Participates in all Contractor negotiations of pre-award and post-award agreements. First line review of potential terms/contracts from new Contractor clients for comparison to HNTB established preferred terms. Works with Corporate Contracting to develop Deal Structure Review documents and participates in monthly Deal Structure Review Board (DSRB) calls. + Provides Commercial leadership and development for a team of Contract Manager(s), Project Operations Managers and/or commercial team members deployed across design-build projects and more broadly with HNTB offices and divisions. + Oversees review and evaluation of RFQ and RFP documents released by Owner for risk and assists in negotiating mitigation strategies to benefit Design-Builder and HNTB. Engages with Division, Office and DB leadership during pre-award and post-award project delivery workplanning, change management, risk assessment/management and payment. + Evaluates potential disputes, suggests strategies for early and effective resolution and avoidance of claims. If disputes arise, ensures contract provisions are followed and participates in dispute resolution steps, commercial negotiations, or litigation support at direction of the Office of General Counsel. + Works closely with other business units to build integrated and effective solutions and leverage existing contractor relationships to establish best practices related to Alternative Delivery across the Owner and Contractor services that HNTB performs. + Establishes policies and procedures and implementation strategies for risk assessment and management. Oversees the Design-Build Risk Assessment process (Owner, Project, Contractor, Contract). + Builds/maintains effective relationships with key national contractors. Working with the Organization, develop a vertical relationship alignment with the national contractor organizations and support local offices with regional contractor relationships. + Develops and nurtures effective and lasting customer/client relationships internally (Region/Division/Office and other Market/Service Lines) and externally with our Contractor clients. + Provides coaching and mentoring of the division teams in design build best practices. Interfaces with corporate offices, including general counsel, corporate contracting and operations organizations to ensure adherence with corporate policies and performance. + Acts as Proxy for Design-Build President and Chief Engineer as needed. + Performs other duties as assigned including project specific assignments such as Project Executive for Ultra and Super-Mega projects. **What You'll Need:** + Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, or related field + 15 years of alternative delivery, design-build project management and/or contract management experience **What You'll Bring:** + Background in the design and construction industry, with exposure to transportation, infrastructure and architecture projects. + A strategic visionary with sound technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment, clear communication skills and strong operations focus. + Creative leader with demonstrated history of success delivering solutions to complex problems. + Critical thinking to understand what really matters in any given situation and then develop appropriate solutions. + Tenacity to overcome obstacles while at same time forging strong relationships with key stakeholders. + Well organized and self-directed individual who is "politically savvy" and a team player. + Experience developing, reviewing and interpreting legal and contractual documents, negotiating contracts and resolving disputes. + Sound decision making skills, including the ability to make recommendations that may influence policies, procedures, risk exposure, strategic objectives, and project costs. + Executive level management skills. **What We Prefer:** + Master's degree in Engineering, Architecture, or related field + Professional Engineer (PE), AIA, or equivalent + 15 years' experience in a key leadership position in Architecture/Engineering/Planning (AEP) or closely related business **Additional Information** Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards Click here to learn more about Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. \#ET #DesignBuild . Locations: Arlington, VA (Alexandria), Atlanta, GA, Bellevue, WA (Seattle), Boston, MA, Indianapolis, IN, Kansas City, MO, Los Angeles, CA (Figueroa Street), Milwaukee, WI (East Wisconsin Avenue), New York, NY, Parsippany, NJ (Fairfield), Salt Lake City, UT . The approximate pay range for New York is $267,531.09 - $557,356.43. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state. . The approximate pay range for New Jersey is $294,284.20 - $535,062.18. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state. . The approximate pay range for Massachusetts is $321,037.31 - $535,062.18. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state. . The approximate pay range for Los Angeles Metro Area and Orange County, CA is $307,660.75 - $512,767.92. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state. . . . The approximate pay range for the Greater Seattle, WA Metro Area is $307,660.75 - $512,767.92. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state. . . . . . . . . . . . . The approximate nation wide pay range for this position is $267,531.09 - $557,356.43. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state. . _NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:_ _HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees._ **Job Type:** Regular **Full/Part Time:** Full time **Job Category:** Design Build Group **ReqID:** R-30381 Equal Employment Opportunity & Disability Accessibility Statement HNTB provides a fair and equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status, or other status protected by law. The HNTB Companies ensure nondiscrimination in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Any applicant with limited English proficiency or a qualifying physical or mental disability who believes they require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should contact us at ReasonableAccommodations@HNTB.com or call 816-527-2600 for assistance. HNTB will make determinations on requests for accommodations on a case-by-case basis. Hearing and speech impaired individuals who seek assistance or accommodation in applying for a position via TTY, may dial 711 in the United States. Instruct the TTY operator to call 888-400-4682 and select option 5 for TTY service. Please indicate to the HNTB agent that you are a candidate seeking assistance in the job application process. Please note that The HNTB Companies will not accept any resume submitted via this email address. To properly submit your application to the HNTB Companies, and to ensure that our recruiters have immediate access to your resume/CV, please search our open positions online, and apply directly through our careers website. Thank you for considering HNTB for your career opportunities. Affirmative Action Policy Statement HNTB has implemented the following policy as part of its longstanding commitment to compliance with all applicable affirmative action requirements. HNTB agrees to post in conspicuous places, available to employees and applicants for employment, this Affirmative Action Policy. HNTB is a federal contractor subject to Section 4212 of the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended ("Section 4212") and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended ("Section 503"). Accordingly, it is HNTB's policy to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment protected veterans (disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, Armed Forces Service Medal veterans, or active-duty wartime or campaign badge veterans) and individuals with disabilities at all levels of employment, including the executive level. HNTB also will provide reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified employee or applicant for employment with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of HNTB. In order to request a reasonable accommodation, employees should contact the HR Solutions Center at General Policy Inquiry - Employee Center and applicants should contact ReasonableAccommodations@HNTB.com. HNTB will recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals in all job titles, and will ensure that all other personnel actions are administered, without regard to an individual's protected veteran or disability status. All employment decisions will be based only on valid job requirements. In addition, employees and applicants shall not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion, or discrimination because they have engaged in or may engage in any of the following activities: (1) filing a complaint; (2) assisting or participating in an investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State, or local law requiring equal opportunity for protected veterans or individuals with disabilities; (3) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by Section 4212, Section 503, their implementing regulations, or any other Federal, State, or local law requiring equal opportunity for protected veterans or individuals with disabilities; or (4) exercising any other right protected by Section 4212, Section 503, or their implementing regulations. The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. These plans are available for review upon request during normal business hours. Any questions or requests to review should be directed to your Human Resources Partner. As Chief Executive Officer, I fully support our affirmative action program and am committed to the implementation of the company's affirmative action policy. I have delegated overall responsibility for this policy to the Business Integrity Director. The Manager of HR Compliance & Immigration is responsible for the implementation, auditing, and reporting of this policy and program, assisted by the office's Human Resources Partner. HNTB employees must comply with this policy and report any violations of illegal discrimination, as specified in the Integrity Reporting policy. For Questions or Additional Information For more information on this policy, please contact the HR Solutions Center, General Policy Inquiry - Employee Center, 888-400-4682. Robert J. Slimp, CEO

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