Full-Time Senior Consultant (Construction Advisory)

J.S. Held is seeking a Senior Consultant for the Construction Advisory Team in the Boston, MA area.

Specializing in schedule development and maintenance. This position requires knowledge of contract/change order management, critical path scheduling, change order/claims preparation, cost analysis, damage quantification, drawing/specification review, and other engineering/construction documents.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior scheduling experience on active construction in commercial/mixed-use developments.
• Experience with highway, heavy civil, rail, pharmaceutical, energy, institution, or federal projects (beneficial, but not necessary).

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop, review, and analyze construction schedules, job cost reports, labor records, production quantities, earned values, project reports, change orders, contracts, correspondence, estimating, and other project records.
• Develop and maintain project schedules in Oracle Primavera P6.
• Lead coordination with clients to engage in schedule development and maintenance.
• Evaluate quality, progress, and risks of CPM schedules.
• Communicate observations on quality, progress, and risks (verbally and in writing).
• Create, maintain, and publish schedule KPI reports.
• Perform and present schedule delay analysis.
• Assess scope changes to project schedules.
• Calculate loss of productivity/efficiency.
• Estimate/analyze labor, equipment, materials, general conditions, and indirect costs.
• Determine escalation costs of material/labor.
• Establish costs of extended general conditions and requirements.
• Quantify unabsorbed home office overhead costs.
• Review and organize project documents.
• Produce work products, draft memos, presentations, and reports.
• Travel to project sites and client offices (as needed).

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years experience with construction firms, scheduling firms, or construction claim/dispute firms.
• 2+ years of scheduling responsibility using Oracle Primavera P6 or equivalent software.
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, or a related engineering discipline.

Other Requirements:

• Analytical aptitudes and attention to detail.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Estimating experience preferred (not necessary).
• Bluebeam or other PDF management software experience.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills (advanced preferred).
• Resident of or near Boston, MA.

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