Washington, DC, DC
Salary Estimate: Confidential
Employment Type: Full Time
Work Place: Part Remote
Experience Required: 5+ to 7 years
Education Required: 4 Year College
Job Description
Client:
At Tishman Speyer, we are building a better tomorrow. The firm’s visionary leadership team and on the ground experts are unparalleled in their ability to foster innovation, anticipate global and local needs, and cultivate new initiatives, such as its tenant amenities platform Zo., and its flexible space and co-working brand Studio. For us, real estate is more than buildings. We focus on the intersections that matter most. The intersection of real estate and people, real estate and technology, real estate and your local neighborhood. We build community and connection. Designing living rooms to labs, boardrooms to breakrooms, we put the customer at the center of everything we do. We build timeless communities that serve neighborhoods and cities with affordability, public space and easy accessibility.
Since its inception in 1978, Tishman Speyer has acquired, developed, and operated 420 properties, totaling 184 million square feet, with a combined value of approximately $97 billion (US). Its current portfolio includes many iconic communities and assets such as Rockefeller Center in New York City, The Springs in Shanghai, TaunusTurm in Frankfurt, and the Mission Rock neighborhood currently being realized in San Francisco.
Overview:
The Senior Director of Design & Construction will join the team working on a variety of largescale projects across multiple markets. Development projects will extend across the office, life science, residential and mixed-use space. A willingness to travel is required.
The Senior Director will be responsible for autonomously running projects from project inception to construction close out. They will be part of a larger team and will need to collaborate and keep relevant internal and external stakeholders engaged and involved in all pertinent matters.
Key Responsibilities:
The Senior Director functions as a principal in the Design and Construction (D&C) Department and is responsible for managing the day-to-day aspects of the design and construction process for a variety of new development projects, and for building out the projects on time, on budget and within pre-established quality parameters.
- Manage the coordination of architectural and engineering disciplines as well as the functions of budgeting, contracting, scheduling, bidding, negotiating, purchasing and value engineering.
- Interface with architects, engineers, contractors, municipal officials, financial institutions and all others necessary for the implementation of design and construction.
- Direct the bidding and award of the complete project scope.
- Provide input to the origination of construction, and design concepts during pre-construction stage for future assigned projects.
- Provide input into the process of selection of all design consultants and other professionals.
- Provide specific leadership, motivation, direction, and control to the construction team to include architects, engineers and the trades.
- Provide the leadership to the pre-construction and actual construction process to assure that all construction is completed on time, on budget and within pre-determined standards of quality.
- Provide direction, create performance objectives, development plans, and conduct performance reviews for potential future direct reports.
- Monitor project construction activities relating to scheduling, quality, costs, design, and construction methodology as well as assist in the selection and recommendation of trades and purchase of major building materials/ components.
- Monitor and maintain control systems for cost estimates, budgets, schedule, contractor draws, change orders, quality control, value engineering, progress reports and variance analyses.
- Maintain substantial interface relationships with clients, client consultants, and other functions.
- Coordinate the construction process with marketing and asset management and leasing
- Maintain substantial interface relationships with financing, accounting, leasing, legal, and development departments.
- Identify project issues and communicate upwards within the internal team to bring the issues to resolution.
- Identify, evaluate, and disseminate new construction technology, in addition to providing the total leadership to the process of value engineering.
Key Qualifications/Functions:
- Undergraduate or Graduate degree in Architecture, Design, Engineering, or Construction Management or equivalent.
- 10+ years of significant achievement either within an architecture firm managing the execution of projects, or construction project manager of office and residential buildings with exposure to the business aspects of the development process.
- Ability to travel
- Strong ability to create, implement, and monitor all construction schedules and control systems, policies, procedures, systems and standards.
- Strong skills and understanding in financial controls with a bottom-line profit orientation.
- Ability to learn new computer software.
- Ability to work and navigate a construction site in order to effectively communicate all project assignments.
- Travel required as and when projects require it.
- Ability to understand and communicate in English, both verbally and written.
Core Competencies:
- Communication
- Commitment to Increasing Contribution to the firm
- Demonstrated Leadership
- Ability to Prioritize/Multi-task
- Ability to Work in Teams
- Entrepreneurship
Our client is deeply committed to creating and maintaining a diverse workforce which promotes different views and perspectives. They expect their leaders and employees alike to champion diversity and inclusion practices.
Our client has several employee affinity and interest groups that provide employees opportunities to develop professional relationships across the business and identify opportunities for development and advancement.
They are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and treat all applicants for employment equally based upon job-related qualifications and without regards to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, military or veteran status, national origin, disability, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.
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