Construction Claims Manager (Closed)
CONSTRUCTION CLAIMS MANAGER
Program: Los Angeles Unified School District – Facilities Executive Office
Number of Positions: One (1)
Salary Range: $154.7K to $182.0K annual base salary plus benefits
DUTIES:
- Assists project staff with the prevention, management, and defense of claims including the management of issues with claims potential.
- Claim Prevention
- Periodic monitoring of, and feedback on, the management of projects and the administration of construction contracts
- Claim Preparation
- Review of the project documents and records along with other pertinent information to support the District’s position.
- Establishes entitlement
- Develops impacted schedule analysis
- Evaluates damages
- Delays impact analysis
- Standard care evaluations
- Productivity analysis
- Merit analysis
- Contract/entitlement analysis
- Cause/effect analysis
- Schedule of analysis
- Assessment of damages
- Report preparation
- Claim Resolution
- Negotiation and mediation support
- Arbitration and litigation support
- Supervision
- Coordinates and provides leadership for claims team supporting District Construction projects
- Claim Management and Defense
- Reviews and analyzes project documents and records along with other pertinent information to establish support for the District’s position
- Issue Management
- Assists project staff with the management of issues affecting time and cost
- Reviews drawings, specifications, submittals, RFI’s, etc., to determine issue merit
- Evaluates contractor’s standard of care in managing issues
- Evaluates issue contribution to the cause / effect of impacts such as disruption, resequencing and delays
- Recommends issue management approaches to mitigate impacts
- Schedule Analysis
- Analyzes contractor time extension requests
- Evaluates entitlement to time extensions
- Evaluates compensability
- Prepares owner’s time extension evaluation alternate to contractor’s proposals
- Damage Assessment
- Evaluates requests for increased, extended and unabsorbed field and home office overhead
- Evaluates requests of productivity loss reimbursement
- Evaluates contractor’s direct cost claims
- Claim Resolution
- Negotiation and mediation support
- Arbitration and litigation support
- Other Skills
- Written report preparation
- Verbal presentations
- Graphics preparation in support of analysis conclusions
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
- 15 years full time paid professional experience in managing a Claims Department responsible in analyzing construction claims on large commercial or public projects or programs
- Minimum of 8 years directly managing and supervising a technical team of varying skill levels in support of construction claims
- General working knowledge of the California Contract Code
- Experience with Primavera 15.1 or higher
REQUIRED EDUCATION:
- Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering or Construction Management or Law
- Possession of a valid Certified Construction Manager (CCM) credential may be substituted for the required education
- Completion of 10-hour Cal OSHA Occupational Safety and Health
RESUME SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Deadline to submit resume:
Wednesday December 8, 2021 @ 9:00am (no late submissions accepted)
Please email cover letter, resume, and salary requirements: hr@paragon-em.com
Subject line: LAUSD Construction Claims Manager
Approximate Processing Time:
SHORTLIST: Within 1 week from resume submission
INTERVIEW: Within 2 weeks from resume submission
SELECTION NOTIFICATION: Within 3 weeks from resume submission
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Recruitment # CM-CCM-1121-28
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