Director of Project Development

PROTECS is a leading full-service design-build construction management and project management company with five US offices focused on serving the hi-tech regulated market sectors. For over 20 years, PROTECS has provided its clients with a broad range of leveraged services in a collaborative design/build and construction management approach by partnering with best-in-class architecture/engineering firms from project inception to occupancy.

Through PROTECS’ patented Target Costing® delivery methodology, the company acts as a single point of contact and accountability for master planning, site selection, design, construction, commissioning, and validation. At the core of its delivery approach, PROTECS takes on the risk to guarantee performance, conformance, compliance, time to market and, above all, cost to ensure all its clients’ strategic objectives and goals are met.

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The Director of Project Development position plays a key role in our organization directing and managing project(s) from conceptual phases to construction (master planning, concept development, schematic phases, design to permit and $GMP, and pre‑construction). This includes oversight and direction of the client relationship development that will provide our clients with projects that are safely completed within budget, on schedule, in accordance with quality standards and to our customer’s satisfaction.

Typically, this position is also seeking to strengthen and extend our relationships to new opportunities with existing clients. This position will support the operations group, managing risk, setting and maintaining policy for early‑stage practices, recruiting and developing staff (estimating, concept phase management, etc.), developing business opportunities, and ensuring projects are completed on a timely and profitable basis with a high level of client satisfaction.

This position will also provide oversight of the operations group personnel in the early project development stage to ensure consistent, timely, cost‑effective delivery of estimates and construction proposals. This entails indirect oversight of project executives (and directors acting in this role), sr. project managers, project managers, project engineers, and administrative staff. The position will also focus on securing work and leading bidding and estimating efforts to obtain work for all offices.

Support of the maintenance and control of pre‑construction design, estimating, and scheduling standards are part of this position. This role requires department and direct project responsibilities be handled in a timely and effective manner.

The Director of Project Development conceptualizes plans to execute projects and manage the associated risk through the use of specific project teams and company practices in conjunction with the operations group. In addition, this position will seek to extend relationships to build work with new and existing clients and will work to build new project opportunities for the organization.

This position focuses on early phase project planning, cost development, cost history tracking, risk management, revenue building, development and execution of early phase project opportunities, office (staff) growth, dispute resolution, tracking of early‑stage project change and project success. The skills developed in this position will assist the individual in future assignments as a Vice President and organization leader.

As part of PROTECS Sales leadership team the Director will participate in plans to break into new clients and markets by developing, cultivating, and extending relationships. These efforts should result in new projects and project opportunities.

This position focuses on longer term planning, revenue building, project opportunities, strategic relationships, project team building, project control, and client development.

Engineering or architectural degree or formal training with equivalent experience; professional registration helpful. 15-20 years in construction and project development.

Extensive experience in Design/Build and CM at Risk projects
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