Director - Construction Advisory Services

HKA is a global leader in risk mitigation, dispute resolution, and expert witness services. We tackle complex challenges with our multi-disciplinary expertise.
As trusted consultants and advisors, we deliver solutions in uncertain and disputed situations, ensuring the best outcomes for clients worldwide. Our experts have testified globally on major cases spanning across a wide range of industries and sectors.

As part of the HKA team you can expect:

• A strong collaborative culture with a mutual pursuit ofyour success alongside the success of our teams.

• The opportunity to solve problems creatively, contribute to our innovative direction, and be valued as an individual

• The ability to leverage HKA’s strong network and presence in various industries and reputation for exceptional expert witnesses to accelerate career development and connections.

The Opportunity:

HKA is seeking a Director to help lead and expand its Construction Advisory Services (CAS) practice. This role is designed for a highly experienced consulting professional who combines deep expertise in construction audit, capital program governance, business process improvement, and technology enablement with strong client leadership, business development, and practice-building capabilities.

The Director will lead complex advisory engagements focused on improving the performance, transparency, compliance, and accountability of capital programs and construction projects. Engagements may include construction audits, cost recovery reviews, contract compliance assessments, capital program diagnostics, governance evaluations, PMO transformation, and PMIS implementation and optimization initiatives. The role primarily supports HKA's Audit and Business Process pillars while leveraging technology solutions to improve project controls, reporting, and decision-making.

This position offers the opportunity to work with executive stakeholders across healthcare, higher education, hospitality, infrastructure, public sector, aviation, and other capital-intensive industries while helping build and scale a national Construction Advisory Services practice.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to owners, developers, public agencies, healthcare systems, universities, and other capital program stakeholders.

• Advise executive leadership on capital program performance, governance, compliance, controls, risk management, and organizational effectiveness.

• Lead executive-level workshops, assessments, and strategic planning sessions.

• Build and maintain long-term relationships with senior client stakeholders.

• Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships and introduce additional HKA service offerings.

Engagement Leadership

Lead complex advisory engagements involving:

• Construction audits

• Cost recovery reviews

• Contract compliance assessments

• Change order and claims prevention reviews

• GMP and pre-construction reviews

• Pay application and invoice audits

• Fraud, waste, and abuse reviews

• Capital program assessments

• Program and project diagnostics

• Governance reviews

• PMO design and enhancement

• Process and controls evaluations

• Organizational effectiveness assessments

• Capital planning and portfolio management reviews

• Direct engagement planning, staffing, budgeting, execution, and quality assurance activities.

• Lead multiple client engagements simultaneously while maintaining exceptional delivery quality.

• Ensure recommendations are practical, actionable, and aligned with client objectives.

Technology Advisory & PMIS Enablement

• Advise clients on leveraging technology to improve capital project delivery and project controls.

• Lead PMIS assessments, selection efforts, implementation oversight, and optimization initiatives.

• Evaluate reporting structures, dashboarding capabilities, and project controls frameworks.

• Support clients in improving project transparency, forecasting, analytics, and decision-making.

• Work with platforms such as Procore, Oracle Primavera Unifier, Primavera P6, e-Builder, Kahua, SmartPM, Power BI, and similar tools.

Business Development & Market Growth

• Develop and maintain a pipeline of advisory opportunities.

• Lead proposal development, client…