Design-Build Project Controls Specialist in NY, New York at HARDESTY & HANOVER

Position Title: Design-Build Project Controls Specialist

Location: NY, New York, United States

Department: Quality Management
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.

H&H is a nationally recognized, full-service infrastructure engineering firm delivering innovative solutions that move communities forward. With more than 139 years of experience and over 600 professionals across 32 offices nationwide, we combine deep technical expertise with the agility of a privately owned firm. From planning and design through construction, we manage the full project life cycle while continually advancing our capabilities, strengthening our national presence, and investing in the people who power our growth. At H&H, you'll join a firm that is building on its legacy by aligning expertise, expanding opportunity, and positioning itself for long-term, sustainable growth.

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).

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