Contract/Project Executive - Federal

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Contract/Project Executive to provide high-level management responsibilities for various client programs and projects for a Federal Client in the DC Metro Area. This full-time role will be responsible for directing, managing, and monitoring the team to resolve challenges to meet client expectations. The role will work closely with the client on a day-to-day basis to proactively meet the client's needs. While this is a remote position, the Contract/Project Executive will need to attend major meetings and conduct occasional site visits. This position is contingent on a future client win and client approval.

This person will be responsible for but not limited to the following:

• Responsible for managing, coordinating, and administering a group of projects or one major project from conceptual stages through all phases of the projects, with the assistance of the project team.
• Responsible for overall performance of the project team and takes the lead in reporting and ensuring project completion within budget, schedule and in conformance with specifications.
• Reviews contracts, scope documents, and available data for the project, and establishes schedules and budgets for compliance with project scope requirements and contract obligations.
• Takes leadership initiative in working with internal team members, and client departments including cost/scheduling, procurement, quality assurance, construction, contracts, legal, labor relations, finance, accounting and other services and departments as required to successfully manage projects.
• Provides an integrated project team approach in working with designers, contractors and governing agencies.
• Reviews and comments on design submissions, change orders, and contracts/sub-contracts, and represent the client interests to ensure control of and validate change orders are current, fair and efficiently processed.
• Reviews comments received from governing agencies on behalf of the client and coordinates timely resolutions.
• Responsible to proactively monitor critical project milestone dependencies, and track actions which may result in risks to critical project milestones.
• Reviews project key performance indicators and forecasts any modifications to schedules, cost estimates, and financial reports, and effectively reconciles risks to commitments that may exceed assigned schedules and budgets.
• Coordinates communications, stakeholder contacts and maintains good working relationships.
• Monitors and controls contractual commitments to assure work being performed is in accordance
• with the specifications and terms of the contracts.
• Reviews builder submittals and RFI documents, and provides field surveillance to ensure specified quality of design.
• Conducts project coordination and client meetings as necessary to review progress and discuss upcoming work.
• Works with stakeholders to negotiate and resolve conflicts, disputes, and potential claims on behalf of the client.
• Responsible for leading a construction management team to deliver capital construction projects for US Federal Government clients.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• BA/BS + 10 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

Preferred Requirements

• Bachelors Degree, PMP , experience in similar role on programs valued >$5M., experience in with Federal Contacts/Programs,  
• CCM, PE, RA
• 15+ Years of Experience + Federal experience

Additional Information

• Sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Relocation is not available for this position.

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