Position Overview:
The Firm is seeking to add a highly-motivated mid-to-senior level Construction Consultant to its team of multi-disciplinary consultants. The individual should have experience performing site visits, condition assessments, and documenting findings, confirming scope of work, analysis, and evaluation of estimated repair and replacement costs for commercial, residential, industrial, marine, and inland structures. Experience in document review and analyses of schedules, contracts, change orders, daily construction reports, authoring technical reports, and construction litigation is desired.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Conduct fieldwork to document as-built conditions and extent of damage to structures due to natural (wind, water, fire, earth movement, etc.) and/or human-induced origins (design and construction errors/omissions). Natural events can include large catastrophes such as regional floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, freeze, and earthquakes.
- Evaluate conceptual and detailed repair estimates for scope and pricing accuracy.
- Understand historical data and pricing for the development and/or evaluation of repair and replacement cost estimates.
- Assess site exposures/construction risks and appropriately analyze costs to reflect these in an estimate.
- Identify costs and associated potential hidden exposure/risk to develop rough order of magnitude cost estimates.
- Assist in the preparation of work scopes, instructions to bidders, bid forms, or solicitation of relevant information, as needed.
- Perform research to support opinions.
- Communicate with clients, interface with governing officials, contractors, and consultants.
- Manage multiple projects, executing them on time and within budget.
- Retain and develop client relationships.
- Willing to travel, as needed, on short notice at times.
Education and Experience Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience (variety of public and private projects) including $5 million+.
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or a similar field and/or industry-level experience preferred.
- Proven analytical and interpretive skills in preparing comprehensive and accurate construction cost estimates (detailed and conceptual).
- Experience in property loss estimating is desirable.
- Strong project management skills.
- Extensive experience with Xactimate, RS Means, Microsoft Excel and Word, on-screen takeoff software, and/or other construction estimating software.
- Restoration industry experience desirable.
- Remediation experience including providing appropriate methods of fire and smoke damage restoration, structural drying, and mold remediation and clerk of works services desirable.
- Excellent math and computational skills.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Experience in providing litigation support including expert testimony at depositions and/or trial, mediation, and arbitration proceedings, desirable.
- Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States for any employer and have a good driving record
