Director of Collaborative Delivery

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Director of Collaborative Delivery to be based in Boulder, Colorado. 

The role of a Director of Collaborative Delivery in an engineering firm is multifaceted and pivotal to the overall success of projects. A Director of Collaborative Delivery serves as a bridge between the technical and business aspects of a project, ensuring that the organization achieves its financial and strategic objectives while maintaining strong client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the commercial operations of assigned projects, which includes effective oversight of the project’s contracts, subcontracts, earned value calculation, cashflow, risk management, and financial reporting. 
• Active member of the management team and will provide guidance on all areas of responsibility. 
• Help with commercial terms on collaborative delivery projects, starting with SRP and others identified in Central Water.
• Maintain relationships with Contractors in the Pacific West Market and build new ones
• Help support upcoming progressive design build pursuits in Los Angeles, San Diego, and possibly LA.

General

• Functions as a deputy reporting directly to the project/design manager with communication ties to teams’ internal principal(s), collectively, the project management team.
• Coordinates with other corporate teams such as finance, legal, HR, insurance, tax and the office of risk management to provide financial and commercial input reporting.
• Manages or collaborates with the project commercial teams consisting of schedulers, project analysts, document control manager, project accountants and other support teams.
• Highlights areas of concern to the project management team and assists in developing corrective actions and strategies.
• Develops and presents monthly commercial status updates to the region/business line leadership, risk review committees, etc.

Contract Oversight

• Supports the negotiation of contract terms and conditions.
• Implements procedures for contract management and administration in compliance with AECOM policy.
• Prepares correspondence and maintains records necessary to document the effective administration of contractual matters.
• Implements change management procedures and drives procedures throughout project lifecycle.
• Tracks and monitors the status of all potential and actual changes on the project.
• Leads the development of change cost and schedule impact analysis.
• Assists project/design manager with change negotiations and change order processing with the client.
• Works with project legal team to help develop and provide contract awareness and change management training for project staff.
• Administers prime contract and flow down terms to subconsultants.
• Develops potential back charges or claims to subconsultants.
• Oversees tracking of potential claims for or against AECOM.
• Assists the project/design manager with potential damages quantification.
• Liaise with internal and external counsel as required.

Risk Management

• Assists the project/design manager with the development and assembly of the project risk register with contribution from technical leadership on risk identification and risk mitigation plans.
• Leads regular project risk register updates and monitors the status of the risk mitigation plan.

Cost, Schedule, Cash Flow and Performance Monitoring

• Ensures the project unified work breakdown structure (WBS) and control accounts in compliance with best practices and AECOM policy.
• Assists the project/design manager with the assembly of fee estimates incorporating all discipline input and part