Associate Director, for COWI in North America

Associate Director

McLean, VA, Oakland, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA, San Diego, CA North Vancouver, BC 

Regular, Full time

Hybrid

Do you want the opportunity to co-create with our experts on some of the most prestigious infrastructure programs in North America? Can you navigate the dynamic landscape of the market by adapting strategies swiftly, capitalizing on emerging opportunities, and mitigating risks? And are you enthusiastic about accelerating growth, promoting innovation, and making a significant impact? Then, this is the place to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow  
We are seeking a highly motivated Associate Director to join our growing North America team. In this leadership role, you will manage commercial and project management aspects of Infrastructure Projects across North America. Moreover, the role is about functionally leading the Contract Management team and supporting projects with assessing risks and managing all contractual matters during the project lifecycle in collaboration with our legal teams. 

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Functionally lead the Contract Management Department (CMD) specialist employees, including hiring of specialist resources as required (in liaison with Heads of Disciplines).
• Assist Legal with the review of Bid Documents to identify and mitigate risk-heavy clauses/obligations.
• Review commercial resourcing needs of projects and ensure that sufficient budget is assigned in the bids.
• Ensure that the drafting and administration of Subconsultant agreements are carried out using best practice.
• Ensure that contractual process obligations are complied with as they relate to contract management, change management, planning, document control, and claims/dispute resolution (and as per best practice), both internally and externally.
• Provide functional and subject-specific assistance, mentoring and guidance both to the commercial expert team of employees and to Project Managers across the Business Line.
• Prepare, assess, and negotiate changes, claims, and disputes.
• Communicate and liaise with client representatives on all project contract issues
• Support, advise, and guide the internal project team with respect to all contract matters.
  
  

Additional Project Management Responsibilities:

• Responsible for profitable execution of own projects with high focus on quality, potential innovative solutions and customer satisfaction as well as ensuring the order intake potential from change orders and follow-on-sales.
• Engages with customers to stay close to projects and customers by regular participation in key meetings to demonstrate leadership attention.
• Ensures compliance with COWI Quality Management System.
• Provide leadership within a multidisciplinary team environment that includes civil, structural, geotechnical and architectural disciplines.
  
  

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to growth in this role is that you are keen to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you will have:

• A bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
• Professional Engineering (PE or PEng) License or ability to obtain one within 6 months.
• Experience on large-scale multi-disciplinary design build projects or progressive design builds.
• A minimum of 15 years' experience in a similar role or equivalent (Experience in the Engineering and Construction industry is considered an asset).
• Experience working on projects through Alternate Project Delivery methods such as Design build, Progressive Design build or CMGC.
• Comprehensive written and oral communication skills.
• Self-motivated, flexible, and able to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• High organizational and time management skills.
• Effective team building skills, solid leadership skills and able to manage multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to work with staff located remotely.
  
  

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and livable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility, and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.

We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.

With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their skills in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:

Being part of the COWI community offers more than just a competitive salary. We take care of our people both professionally and personally.

Our benefits include: 

Flexible working arrangement | Top-up parental and childbirth recovery leave | Fantastic close-knit team with a wealth of knowledge to share | Full time hires get minimum 3 weeks vacation to start |  Floating holiday to celebrate employee diversity | Paid sick leave | Annual fitness subsidy - yes, you can use this for a ski pass, yoga, or gym membership | 401K contribution matching with generous company match | Personal and professional development fund | Parking or public transit allowance | Medical, dental, and vision insurance 80% employer-paid premiums | Employee Assistance Program (EAP) | STD, LTD, AD&D, and Life Insurance | Referral incentive program| Frequent social events

Base compensation: $172,000 to $230,000 for the Seattle location. Actual compensation is subject to variations due to education, experience, skill set and/or location.

Got more questions?

Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, COWI complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training information.