Director, Construction

Liv Cor, a Blackstone portfolio company, is a real estate asset management business specializing in multi-family housing. Formed in 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, Liv Cor is currently responsible for a portfolio of over 400 Class A and B properties comprising more than 150,000 units in markets across the United States.

Our business is focused on making real estate more valuable. But for us, it's more than that. It's people first, community always. It's a life-filled career, not just a career-filled life. It's doing good work, with good humans, and making a difference. It's excellence in all its forms. Ultimately, we create great places to work, live, and grow. We do that by focusing on leaving people - and places - better than we found them.

Whew! Still with us? Cool. Let's talk about where you'd fit in:

Only read further if you are:

• Kind
• Humble
• Honest
• Relentless
• Smart with Heart

You should be:

• Authentic. You do you. Together, we'll do something amazing.
• A passionate person with a love for real estate and investing; and believes that helping others win is a noble cause, essential to our success.
• An excellent team player who enjoys working with others and has strong interpersonal skills.
• Highly motivated
  , energeti
  c, and organized

The Director of Construction (Cap Ex - Operations) is responsible for the daily management, coordination and oversight of multi-family construction projects including successful project planning, cost management, execution, and closure. This role plans and directs all construction activities and administrative processes in order to deliver high quality projects on time and within budget. The Director of Construction successfully achieves objectives related to cost management, bidding, contract administration, schedule tracking and facilitation.

What you will do:

• Work closely with our real estate team to support strategic initiatives including acquisitions, dispositions, renovations, and ongoing capital projects. Provides internal assistance such as technical guidance, and/or training to coworkers. Provide value engineering guidance as plans /projects are developing.
• Identify and prepare scope of work, project resource requirements, project cost estimates/budgets, milestones, and risks. Collaborate with Regional Maintenance Manager to align with on-site team and ensure that all concerns from internal constituents are incorporated accurately into the final plans.
• Work closely with capital committee providing cost feedback before, during, and post project.
• Lead the preparation of property specific Capital Plans and Budgets to execute the asset business plan in partnership with the Asset Manager and on-site teams.
• Manages all pre-construction activities for successful project roll-out and provides guidance on capital deployment including delegating to appropriate parties once budget is approved.
• Develops and maintains successful relationships with the property management team (Community/Maintenance Manager) (Regional Manager/Regional Maintenance Manager) and management companies' partners.
• Responsible for the preparation and execution of construction contracts, including interviewing, selecting and managing subcontractors according to credential requirements, executed agreements, and project schedule.
• Develop successful relationships and provide oversight to Project Engineer(s), Architect(s), Consultant(s) and other members of the project team.
• Responsible for Project Quality Assurance/Quality Control and verifies that quality of finished work meets expectations set forth within the executed contract(s), company policy and procedures.
• Coordinate with our Owners representative/ Architect of record.
• Coordinate and act as liaison with local municipality for processing of architectural and engineering drawings and assist in the preparation of submittal packages. Director of construction is responsible for Project Scope Development, Bidding and Bid Qualifying process.
• Oversee the staging, startup and progress of the project.
• Maintain and report in the assigned company systems to track budgets, forecast costs, project schedules, and inspections.
• Teams with project personnel to provide a safe job site per OSHA requirements and according to management companies' policies and procedures.
• Track, and schedule project pencil draws and will ensure the timely delivery and submittal of all payment applications and to verify payment affidavit, lien releases, conditional and unconditional waivers and all or any documentation related to payments of the project. Prepare a complete package submittal for processing and payment.

What you should have:

• 5+ years' construction management experience in the same role or 10+ years in multi-family related construction or equivalent combination.
• Bachelor's degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or related field. Equivalent experience may be considered as well.
• Experience with construction cost estimating, proposal development, contracts management and construction…