Project Director, Aviation

At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 10 rankings in ENR. With over 60 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!

We are currently hiring a Project Director to support the major renovation of an entire airport terminal in Los Angeles, CA. The Project Director shall control and monitor the overall macro picture of all design & construction and logistics activities, while the project managers, with their respective teams, manage the day-to-day project activities. The Project Director will be focused on schedule certainty, budget delivery and making sure that design & construction work meets the required quality standards while enforcing a strong health, safety, and environmental culture on the program. The position will ensure the development and implementation of construction, testing, commissioning, turnover plans, impacts to the operations of the airport will be controlled, and risk mitigation for construction activities will be optimized.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Monitoring all the design & construction activities of the terminal program to ensure that work is completed on time, on budget and meets all applicable codes and standards.

• Ensuring implementation of a quality assurance plan and monitoring of all design & construction activities with a robust quality control process for all phases of the project.

• Overseeing, managing, and mitigating risks of technical design & construction interfaces between projects, contractors, and third parties.

• Supervising and guiding the project teams in conjunction with the Terminal Development leadership and project managers of the terminal program.

• Implementing, supervising, guiding, and monitoring of the logistics activities during all construction phases of all projects of the terminal program, both with reference to construction, operations, and maintenance aspects.

• Overseeing, implementing, supervising, and monitoring testing and commissioning.

• Monitoring dispute resolution for all LAWA inspection deviations.

• Facilitating the flow of information between the terminal program and the other various LAWA projects (currently ongoing and those in the planning phase) and the various divisions/groups within LAWA (ADG, CDD, CALM, etc.). i.e.: technical liaison with and between all Terminal Development project teams.

• Identifying and resolving potential problems related to design & construction activities between the various Terminal Development contracts and other LAWA projects.

• Reviewing and commenting on design plans and technical documents related to constructability and logistics.

• Assisting in risk management and mitigation for the terminal program to facilitate the schedule and support cost containment.

• Evaluating activities affecting traffic both within the CTA and regionally around the airport in support of the CALM group, including coordinating traffic analysis for temporary and permanent configurations. Supporting scheduling activities, including the coordination of the terminal program schedule with the schedules of other LAWA projects affecting the program.

• Facilitating interface coordination meetings among the project teams.

• Working with the project teams to verify that all interface elements and the integrated system are functioning as expected.

• Monitoring schedule progress and anticipating potential issues that may affect key milestones.

• Developing, tracking, and managing the sequence of work for the various terminal projects.

• Coordinating quality and safety requirements with LAWA Inspection.

• Estimating (supported by the ADG estimating team):

  • Coordinating review of design-builder estimates on LAWA-managed projects for contractual compliance and, where required, alignment with fair market value.

  • Overseeing review of change proposals for contractual compliance and where required, alignment with fair market value.

  • Coordinating the provision of conceptual estimates for new scopes of work.

  • Coordinating assistance to project managers with change order negotiation and preparation of records of negotiation.

  • Ensuring citation and record of pricing sources used in preparing estimates.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Experience negotiating major contra