Hardesty & Hanover LLP,

Design-Build Project Controls Specialist

Hardesty & Hanover LLP,$110K — $140K *
Real Estate & Construction
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associate Design-Build Professional (Assoc. DBIA) certification, or ability to obtain it within twelve months.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, or a related field.
  • Familiarity with Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling principles and software like Primavera P6.
  • Capability to thrive in a collaborative design-build environment.
  • Strong organizational and analytical skills, alongside effective written communication.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and common business applications.
  • Ability to handle multiple projects while prioritizing urgent issues.

Responsibilities

  • Support the development of RFQs, RFPs, contracts, and procurement documents.
  • Coordinate input from various stakeholders into procurement and contract documents.
  • Assist in managing procurement schedules and proposal review activities.
  • Review procurement documents for completeness and consistency with project requirements.
  • Maintain accurate records of comments, revisions, and decisions during the procurement process.
  • Develop and report on CPM schedules and contractor schedule assessments.
  • Coordinate design activities with various project requirements and maintain project controls.

Benefits

  • Professional work environment with a competitive salary.
  • Comprehensive benefits package available.
  • 401(k) plan offered to support long-term savings.
Full Job Description
H&H is seeking a Design-Build Project Controls Specialist to join our Design-Build / Alternative Delivery Group. This position will support multiple active and developing infrastructure assignments, including design-build procurement and contract development, multidisciplinary design coordination, execution-phase delivery, scheduling, estimating, financial administration, and project controls.

The successful candidate will be comfortable working across design, construction, procurement, commercial, financial, scheduling, and owner-facing functions in a collaborative alternative-delivery environment. The position is intended to expand project capacity by supporting routine and intermediate-level design-build delivery responsibilities while developing into a versatile alternative-delivery resource.

Responsibilities

Design-Build Procurement and Contract Development
  • Support the development of design-build RFQs, RFPs, contracts, technical provisions, exhibits, forms, and other procurement documents.
  • Coordinate technical, commercial, legal, scheduling, quality, and owner input into procurement and contract documents.
  • Assist with procurement schedules, proposer instructions, scope requirements, performance criteria, industry outreach, meetings, and proposal-review activities.
  • Review procurement and contract documents for consistency, completeness, and alignment among technical requirements, schedule, pricing, and contractual obligations.
  • Maintain concise records of comments, revisions, decisions, and unresolved issues throughout procurement and contract development.

Scheduling, Estimating, and Financial Support
  • Develop, update, review, and report on Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules, including design and construction sequence development and contractor schedule reviews.
  • Identify schedule logic, sequencing, progress, critical path, float, milestone, and delay concerns for senior review.
  • Prepare and support estimates for professional services, supplemental agreements, amendments, and other defined scopes.
  • Prepare invoices, track contract and financial performance, and support forecasting, planned-versus-actual analysis, and routine financial reporting.

Execution-Phase and Project Controls Support
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary design teams and support delivery of design-build requirements across engineering disciplines, specialty consultants, quality, construction, and other stakeholders.
  • Lead routine design coordination, track deliverables and decisions, facilitate meetings, and drive assigned actions through completion.
  • Coordinate design activities with schedule, cost, procurement, constructability, permitting, quality, and construction requirements.
  • Maintain project-controls information, including procurement, schedule, design, submittal, RFI, action-item, decision, milestone, and financial tracking.
  • Support execution-phase coordination among owners, designers, contractors, subcontractors, and other stakeholders and facilitate timely reviews and responses.
  • Identify scope gaps, conflicts, emerging risks, and inconsistencies across design, schedule, cost, procurement, and construction information and elevate significant matters as appropriate.

Requirements
  • Associate Design-Build Professional (Assoc. DBIA) certification, or ability to obtain the certification within twelve months of employment.
  • Bachelor's degree from a four-year program in engineering, construction management, architecture, or a related technical or construction-focused field.
  • Exposure to Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling principles and CPM scheduling software, including Primavera P6 or another comparable platform.
  • Ability to work effectively in a collaborative design-build or other alternative-delivery environment.
  • Strong organizational, analytical, written communication, documentation, and follow-through skills.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and standard business applications.
  • Ability to manage multiple assignments and changing priorities while recognizing when issues require escalation.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Exposure to construction or professional-services estimating.
  • Hands-on Primavera P6 experience is strongly preferred; comparable CPM scheduling experience may be considered.
  • One to five years of relevant experience in construction, scheduling, estimating, project controls, procurement, or project delivery.
  • Construction exposure through employment, internships, field assignments, estimating, scheduling, or construction coordination in civil, heavy civil, residential, commercial, transportation, rail, bridge, utility, or similar work.
  • Experience developing, updating, maintaining, or reviewing project schedules.
  • Experience with bridge, rail, transit, roadway, civil, heavy civil, or other infrastructure projects.
  • Experience supporting public-sector owners, transportation agencies, railroads, municipalities, or similar clients.
  • Experience with RFQ/RFP development, procurement documentation, design-build contracts, estimating, invoicing, forecasting, or project-performance tracking.


Benefits

Salary range - $110,000-140,000 annually. Salary commensurate with level of experience.

We offer a professional work environment, a competitive salary, a benefits package, and 401(k).

About Hardesty & Hanover LLP,

Hardesty & Hanover is an American infrastructure engineering company specializing in the design and management of bridges and other transportation and architecture projects. The firm was founded in 1887 by John Alexander Low Waddell, a structural engineer who pioneered the design of large-scale moveable bridge. Originally incorporated in Kansas City, Missouri as J.A.L. Waddell, Consulting Engineer, the company was renamed throughout the early 20th century as Waddell added junior partners to the organization. In 1920, the firm moved its headquarters to New York City, where it would go on to design many important bridges int the area, such as Newark Bay Bridge, the original Goethals Bridge, and Marine Parkway Bridge. In recent decades the company has expanded its footprint to the fields of highway design and movable architecture, contributing to projects like U.S. Bank Stadium, the New York City Shed, the redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport, and other major interchanges of highways in New York City.
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