Associate Director

Turner & Townsend • Houston, TX

3d

About The Position

Lead the Cost Management team on specific client commissions, ensuring the team delivers on all accountabilities. Interface with the client, stakeholders, and other consultants at all project stages. Identify opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates, and products. Monitor, track, and analyze schedule progress in the field (actual vs. forecast). Develop and implement project controls strategies, policies, and procedures, ensuring QA/QC is followed. Evaluate and identify the risk profile of the project and provide recommendations to the client on how to mitigate risks. Perform work using spreadsheet, report writing, presentations, and industry-accepted applications for cost, planning, and progress measurement. Ensure that key information and learning generated from each commission is inputted into internal databases and case studies are shared. Drive process improvement by identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes with the client and achieve standardization in reporting to help leadership with decision-making efforts. Lead proposals for new work or variations for existing projects. Attend relevant networking events, industry conferences, and other promotional opportunities. Manage staff by mentoring early career starters, undertaking formal management of staff, conducting recruitment interviews, and performing staff performance reviews. Manage finances by utilizing the tools provided within D365 and Hive to track ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission. Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor in the development of cost estimates. Reconcile changes that occur over the planning phase and assist the general contractor to ensure their data is accurate. Ensure compliance with quality standards and participation in ISO audits. Communicate or meet with the general contractor and owner project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update and benchmarking database. Prepare written comments on the general contractor’s submissions, including the executive summary. Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers directly from NPA, subs, quantities from A/Es. Perform the foregoing utilizing tools including MS project, Primavera, Smartsheet, PowerBI, AutoDesk Revit, BIM360 for collaboration across all project stakeholders (Architects, Engineers, Interior Designers, Subcontractors, Scheduler, Client Representative, and Project Owner) and for delivering efficient results through the supporting tool. The role also involves duties related to an Estimator, including generating accurate and timely project-based mechanical and plumbing estimates using FastPipe and FastDuct software, developing Mechanical estimates for commercial and industrial projects, providing change order management services to high-tech clients for Mechanical and plumbing, reviewing mechanical and plumbing bid packages to ensure completeness with plans and scope and provide necessary recommendations to identify areas to save costs, performing detailed takeoffs of mechanical and plumbing drawings and generate estimates at conceptual, programming, and detailed stages of estimation, providing cost input for value engineering efforts of MEP trades, interfacing collaboratively with internal and external clients and stakeholders at all project stages, maintaining working knowledge of construction market conditions throughout North America, including new and updated official published data, maintaining existing client relationships, and identifying opportunities to develop new business.

Requirements

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering
• 6 years of experience in job offered or 6 years of experience in the Related Occupation

Nice To Haves

• Use scheduling tools including MS project and Primavera P6.
• Perform work using spreadsheet, report writing, presentations and industry accepted applications for cost, planning and progress measurement.
• Perform the foregoing utilizing tools including MS project, Primavera, Smartsheet, PowerBI, AutoDesk Revit, BIM360 for collaboration across all project stakeholders (Architects, Engineers, Interior Designers, Subcontractors, Scheduler, Client Representative and Project Owner) and for delivering efficient results through the supporting tool.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Cost Management team on specific client commissions, making sure that the team delivers on all accountabilities.
• Interface with the client, stakeholders, and other consultants, at all project stages.
• Identify opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products.
• Monitor, track and analyze schedule progress in the field (actual vs forecast).
• Developing and implementing project controls strategies, policies, procedures and ensure QA/QC is being followed.
• Evaluate and identify the risk profile of the project and provide recommendations to the client on how to mitigate the risks.
• Ensure that key information and learning generated from each commission is inputted into internal databases and case studies are shared.
• Process improvement – Identify and act upon ways to improve internal systems and processes with the client and achieve Standardization in reporting to help leadership with decision making efforts.
• Lead proposals for new work or variations for existing projects.
• Attend relevant networking events, industry conferences and other promotional opportunities.
• Staff management – Mentor early career starters on their career journey within the company; Undertake formal management of staff and recruitment interviews. Undertake Staff Performance reviews.
• Financial management – Utilize the tools provided within D365 and Hive to keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission.
• Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor in the development of the cost estimates.
• Reconcile changes that occur over the planning phase and assist the general contractor to ensure that their data is accurate.
• Quality Control – Ensure compliance with quality standards and participation in ISO audits.
• Communicate or meet with general contractor and owner project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update and benchmarking database.
• Prepare written comments on the general contractor’s submissions, including the executive summary.
• Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA, subs, quantities from A/Es.
• Generating accurate and timely project-based mechanical and plumbing estimates using FastPipe and FastDuct software.
• Developing Mechanical estimates for commercial and industrial projects.
• Providing change order management services to high-tech clients for Mechanical and plumbing.
• Reviewing mechanical and plumbing bid packages to ensure completeness with plans and scope and provide necessary recommendations to identify areas to save costs.
• Performing detailed takeoffs of mechanical and plumbing drawings and generate estimates at conceptual, programming, and detailed stages of estimation.
• Providing cost input for value engineering efforts of MEP trades.
• Interfacing collaboratively with internal and external clients and stakeholders, at all project stages.
• Maintaining working knowledge of construction market conditions throughout North America, including new and updated official published data.
• Maintaining existing client relationship and identify opportunities to develop new business.

Benefits

• great place to work
• opportunity and voice to affect change
• succeed both in work and life
• healthy, productive and flexible working environment
• respects work-life balance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager