Job Description
As a Change Control Manager, your key responsibilities will be:
- Lead change management efforts, including day-to-day engagement with project team, and change order tracking. Assist with project communications with client, narrative development, and quantification of cost and/or schedule impacts.
- Work with change management team leadership to develop claims approach, methodology, and analytical framework.
- Own end-to-end development of major claim components (entitlement, quantum, schedule impact). With input from leadership, oversee performance of cost analysis, such as discrete change pricing, labor/equipment inefficiency, productivity loss, cumulative impact breakdowns.
- Oversee preparation of exhibits, graphics, and supporting documentation for claims and change order requests.
- Oversee schedule and cost analysis performed by Senior Associates and Analysts; ensure accuracy and defensibility.
- Assist with development and refinement of claim narratives; integrate technical, contractual, and factual elements.
- Engage with various individuals involved in the claim development process, including project management, legal counsel, schedulers, and finance.
- Provide coaching, workload planning, oversight, quality control, and talent development for junior staff.
- Identify potential responses to change order/claim counterarguments and determine potential responses.
- Present findings to internal leadership and external stakeholders.
- Understand contract requirements and assist Project team to ensure requirements are met. Help define entitlement strategy for potential change orders/claims.
- Assist project team with data organization (e.g., file structure and naming convention) and tracking (e.g., development and maintenance of CO logs, correspondence logs, RFI logs, etc.)
- Identify risks and improvement opportunities in claims processes.
- Develop and help implement change management efforts to aid project teams in successful adoption of new processes, systems, and technologies
- Partner with project teams and project controls to ensure change management considerations are integrated into project plans and activities.
What it takes:
- 10+ years technical documentation evaluation experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Strong organizational and documentation skills, and high attention to detail
- Strong understanding of construction contracts, construction documents, and project controls
- Ability to develop, manage, update, and efficiently perform work plans within change management team in conjunction with project teams.
- Understanding of construction means and methods
- Strong understanding of cost estimating and methodologies to price change orders and claims.
- Ability to critically evaluate technical documents' functional specifications to ensure they are delivered to the required standards
- Data management proficiency, including excel
- Clear and concise written and verbal communications. Ability to effectively communicate with project team and change team leadership
- Understanding of scheduling software, scheduling analysis, and forensic schedule analysis techniques (e.g., TIAs) a plus
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders
- Ability to manage, oversee, and promote development of junior team members
- Basic estimating experience a plus
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
Job Tags
Contract work