Director of Development Construction

CLIENT is an omnichannel wholesale market maker that fuels opportunities for wholesale buyers and sellers to connect, grow and prosper through physical markets, design centers, and digital channels. The company owns and operates more than 20 million square feet of premium event and showroom space, hosting live events in Atlanta, High Point, N.C., Las Vegas, and New York City. By pairing face-to-face events with always-on digital channels, CLIENT provides truly omnichannel business platforms for its global customer base.

What You ll Do:
The Director of Development & Construction will lead the local development and construction office, while enforcing corporate processes and controls. This role will manage and coordinate capital and tenant construction projects including, but not limited to new construction, renovations, base building utilities and automation upgrades, environmental, life safety and code compliances, furnishings, equipment upgrades and supports all corporate operations by performing the following duties

Position Responsibilities

• Provides pre-construction support and planning by verifying user requirements, determining constructability and developing schedules for projects.
• Participates in developing scope of work, conceptual design, design development and construction document phases for project with the design team.
• Assists in developing budgets, analyzing cost benefits and completing capital request submissions projects.
• Assist with securing project approvals from the City of Atlanta and other government regulatory authorities.
• Prepares bid invitation packages, solicits bids, responds to bid inquiries and issues addenda as required.
• Evaluates contractor bids to ensure bids include the correct scope of work, schedule requirements, unit prices and other project specific criteria.
• Determines successful bidder for aware of contracts.
• Negotiates contracts and purchase orders and prepares original documents for execution.
• Reviews and responds to Request for Information.
• Reviews and approves submittals and shop drawings for compliance to project documents.
• Evaluates and change order request and negotiates contract cost adjustments, if applicable.
• Reviews invoices for accuracy and recommends for payments.
• Ensures lien waivers and certifications are attached to payment request.
• Performs on-site inspections of work in progress for quality assurance, problem resolution, design compliance and adherence to schedule.
• Prepares and executes punch lists.
• Conducts final inspections.
• Coordinates and reviews final as-built drawings, certificates of occupancy, equipment and systems start-up documentation, warranties and operations and maintenance manuals.
• Coordinates work performed by contracted resources with appropriate personnel to ensure communication of activities and avoid conflicts with daily business activities.
• Maintains project records including plans, contracts, specifications, correspondence, schedules, expenditures and budgets in a consistent and easily accessible manner.
• Maintains regular verbal and written correspondence with the project team, including but not limited to the tenant, architect, engineer, general contractor, interior designer, and personnel.
• Reviews proposed plans for tenant improvement projects submitted by architects, engineers and designers for compliance with City of Atlanta building codes and design criteria.
• Prepares overall project schedules and conducts periodic progress meetings to ensure materials and work in place are tracking satisfactorily.
• Resolves problem issues as they occur and communicates adjustments to schedules and budgets accordingly.
• Ensure all team members are provided with necessary training to accomplish company and department goals.
• Coach team members when personnel challenges are identified.
• Ensure proper interdepartmental communication is a priority.
• Maintain professional standards of and the Development and Construction Department.

Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Undergraduate degree from four-year accredited College or University in interior design, engineering, building science or architecture is required
• Minimum of five years project management experience is required with at least three years owner representation experience is preferred
• Construction field experience is a benefit
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, journals, technical procedures or regulations
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups
• Ability to track project cost and understand financial reports required
• Must be able to understand mathematical concepts such as statistics, fractions, percentages, ratios and apply to practical situations
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form
• Must have CAD skills and a strong working knowledge of all Microsoft Office software including Microsoft Project
• Strongly preferred skills include experience with various cloud-based Project Management Software, cost estimations, management of multiple projects at one time while working in an extremely fast paced and hectic environment, strong interpersonal skills, work ethic, patience, initiative and flexibility, must be able to read and interpret constructions plans, elevations, specifications and schedules

Why you ll love working at CLIENT:

Our Team Members are our most critical asset. The foundation for our success is built on teamwork, talent, creativity, hard work, and dedication. Together, we truly have a transformational opportunity to positively impact the industries in which we work. We are pleased to offer a wide array of comprehensive benefit programs and services that you would expect to see at a great company including competitive medical, dental, vision, EAP, FSA, and 401k Retirement Match to name just a few. There are also a few differentiators like unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, BYOD (cell phone compensation), tuition reimbursement, Workplace Rewards providing discounts to a wide variety of consumer products and services, a seed grant of at least $1,000 annually into your Value HSA Plan, and considerably more!

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: CLIENT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

EOE/ADA