Owners Advisor for Collaborative Delivery

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Are you an individual who takes pride in delivering exceptional work? Our Integrated Project Delivery group has an immediate opening for a full-time collaborative delivery practitioner to join our national Owner’s Advisor team. We are seeking a motivated, achievement-oriented individual who can help us fulfill our commitment to pursue and deliver client success on each and every project we undertake. You will work with and be mentored by nationally recognized, collaborative professionals and engineers with design-build experience. 

Detailed Description: 

Brown and Caldwell seek a Senior level person to work within the design-build Owner Advisor group to pursue and implement collaborative delivery processes for local and national clients. Work associated with this can be within a large program or specific project execution. As an OA the specific focus will be on assisting Clients in the full development and delivery of collaborative delivery projects, inclusive of project definition, delivery partner procurement, preconstruction implementation, delivery of design and construction, start-up and commissioning and O&M for design-build, progressive design-build, construction management/general contractor (CMGC), construction management at-risk (CMAR), and P3 projects. This position will support projects in a wide variety of locations throughout the U.S. with a concentration on projects in the north and mid-Atlantic area. 

Characteristics of the successful candidate include attention to detail, ability to organize and delve into documentation with an understanding of design-build and collaborative delivery industry approaches, and able to provide recommendations for procurement and selection of design-build partners for our clients. The candidate shall have the proven ability to guide, lead and manage large programs and projects, multidiscipline project delivery professionals while maintaining, leveraging and expanding their relationships with local and national resources and teams.  The candidate shall have strong self-motivation, ability to work independently and with teams both internal and with client and contractor partners.

Job Expectations:

• Provide assessments and guidance regarding client/owner organizational readiness and preparation for collaborative delivery understanding, planning, development, and execution
• Provide guidance related to the merits of various project delivery methods and support procurement best practices as an advisor to owners
• Prepare and make presentations to clients related to best practices for collaborative delivery (design-build in its various methodologies and CMGC/CMAR) implementation
• Collaborate and work with internal teams and staff in planning, developing, and executing procurement documents for design-build and CMAR projects.
• Collaborate and work with clients in developing documentation and coordinating with procurement and legal teams to support the development and execution of design-build projects during procurement, preconstruction and construction phases.
• Support the development of procurement documents and coordinate associated technical specifications, reports, planning, and design and construction submittal reviews, calculations, models and other technical deliverables to support the owner's procurement and implementation process.
• Develop and customize RFQ and RFP documents for procurement activities using various collaborative delivery methods.
• Provide guidance and support in developing selection criteria and SOQ/proposal scoring criteria and approach.
• Support owners/clients in the review of various designs and construction plans and approaches during the design and preconstruction phase of design-build and CMAR projects.
• Support owners/clients in the review and validation of design-builder and CMGC/CMAR construction estimates and support guaranteed price negotiations on owner’s behalf.
• Support owners/clients in design-builder contract compliance and services during construction.
• Communicate effectively and coordinate with multi-discipline project teams comprised of client staff, technical resources, public entities and regulatory agencies, and subconsultants as needed.
• Support development and communication of design-build and CMAR best practices via participation in professional organizations and conferences and for internal marketing and staff development
• Support the development of proposal response for developing and winning new work.
• Position will require travel; potentially up to 50% of the time

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 15 years of progressively increasing responsibility