Consultant - Construction Advisory

6 months ago

Montréal, Canada J.S. Held Full time

Are you looking to join an organization that is growing and dynamic? What about a high-energy, collaborative environment that rewards hard work?

J.S. Held is a global consulting firm providing technical, scientific, and financial expertise across all assets and value at risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high-stakes events demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enable clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations.

We have over 100 locations worldwide. We are highly committed to all members of our community, both employees and clients. Our organization focuses on promoting a sense of community and inspiring our people to achieve results that exceed goals.

J.S. Held is actively seeking a Consultant for the Construction Advisory Team, specializing in Claims and Dispute Resolution in the Montreal, QC area. This position is for a professional who has knowledge or experience with contract and/or change order management, critical path scheduling analysis, preparation of change orders or claims, cost estimates, review of drawings and specifications.

As a Claims and Dispute Resolution Consultant, you will work with a team of experts to analyze the numbers and provide unparalleled client service.

**Responsibilities**:

- Schedule Analysis
- Loss of Productivity/Efficiency Analysis
- Scope Change Assessment
- Calculation of increased material and/or labor costs
- Extended General Conditions Analysis
- Cost Estimating
- Lost Profit Analysis
- Drawing Review

**Required Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or an Engineering discipline such as Structural, Civil, Electrical, MEP etc.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office - Advanced skills preferred, especially in Excel, Word, and Powerpoint
- 1-3 years experience with engineering or construction firms, or a construction claim/dispute firm.
- Scheduling software - Microsoft Projects/Primavera Products
- Excellent communication, mathematical and organizational skills
- Strong investigating, problem solving, and analytical skills.
- Proficiency in English and French (written and spoken)
- Member of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) possessing engineering license preferred
- Member of Order of Engineers of Quebec, possessing P.Eng. or equivalent preferred

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Communication: Effectively communicates at all organizational levels, both in writing and orally. Maintains confidentiality of clients and the firm.
- Project Focus: Sees things through to completion, deals effectively with potential obstacles and exhibits the flexibility to adapt to whatever a situation calls for. Work is completed within designated timeframes. Takes proper action when time frames cannot be met to assure the work of others is not compromised. Uses non-billable time effectively.
- Professionalism: Has a positive attitude, displays a sense of pride, enthusiasm, optimism and deep dedication for work with both clients and colleagues. Is a self
- motivator, willing to take on new challenges. Takes responsibility for increasing his/her own skills.
- Teamwork: Works well within a team of other professionals;
- Quality of Work: Has strong work ethic, taking care to produce accurate work. Has mechanisms in place to check work and ensure the quality of work being produced is accurate and timely.

J.S. Held is dedicated to becoming the global leader in providing multi-disciplinary consulting services to the construction, government, healthcare, industrial, insurance, energy, legal, and technology, communities. We have diverse practice areas including Construction Advisory, Financial Investigations, Forensic Accounting & Economics, Forensic Architecture & Engineering, Surety, Environmental Health & Safety, Equipment, Toxicology, and Building & Property Consulting, among other disciplines. J.S. Held is devoted to recruiting and cultivating top industry talent to build a collaborative and diverse team of experts. We leverage our experience to provide local, cost-efficient solutions and an unrivaled client experience. We embrace diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our commitment to building a team and environment that fosters professional and personal enrichment is unwavering. We are greater when we are equal

Our mission is to serve as trusted, expert advisors to organizations around the world facing high-stakes situations that demand urgent attention, exceptional knowledge, staunch integrity and objective, clear-cut analysis and advice.

Some of the Benefits We Have Include

J.S. Held understands all of our employees are people and sometimes life needs flexibility. We work to always provide an environment that best supports and suits our team’s needs.
- Our flexible work environment allows emplo

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