Senior Delay Analyst

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

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Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Delay Analyst to join our team in Riyadh. The ideal candidate will be responsible for providing clients with advice on time-related construction claims through forensic analysis of project information and data.

The successful candidate will be involved with some of the most prestigious construction & infrastructure projects currently taking place in the GCC.

With the excellent reputation Turner & Townsend has across the GCC, the successful applicant will enjoy good career stability with the prospect of excellent progression.

Main Responsibilities

• Preparation of and/or defending extension of time claims, including conducting a critical path delay analysis and drafting narratives for the claim submission
• Working with the project team to identify delay events for claim submissions
• Applying industry standard delay analysis methodologies to analyse and quantify delays on construction projects
• Preparation of high-quality analytical reports clearly establishing cause and effect in relation to construction delays, and demonstrating entitlement to EOT
• Undertaking programme critiques and delay analysis critiques
• Evaluate programme updates, schedule integrity and forensic programme reviews
• Present analytical findings and recommendations to clients in a clear and persuasive manner
• Supporting Delay Experts on construction disputes in fact-finding, detailed analysis and quantification of delays, presentation of findings and report writing

Qualifications

• Degree qualified
• Membership of relevant engineering or construction industry professional body is desirable, but not essential
• Previous experience in a claim’s consultancy firm
• Experience in project planning and controls
• 8 to 10 years’ Forensic Planning experience, working solely in a delay analysis role
• Delay analysis and report writing skills include hands-on experience of various prospective and retrospective delay analysis methods.
• Possess solid understanding of various delay analysis methods, the assumptions behind each, advantages & disadvantages of each, and the suitability of each method for a given circumstance.
• Demonstrable experience applying recognized delay analysis methodologies including Impacted As-Planned, Time Impact Analysis (TIA), Windows Analysis, As-Planned vs As-Built, and Collapsed As-Built methodologies.
• Skilled in the use of Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Asta PowerProject or other planning software
• Familiarity with FIDIC contracts or equivalentCore Competencies

• Critical thinking and analytical problem solving
• Excellent report writing and presentation skills
• Strong understanding of CPM scheduling principles
• Attention to detail and commitment to quality
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple commissions
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

Additional Information

Turner & Townsend is a global management consultancy and professional services firm focusing on the construction and asset management sectors. We work with the most prominent clients on the largest projects and asset bases across real estate, infrastructure and natural resources. Our focus is on programme and project management, cost and commercial management and asset management strategy.

We deliver projects on time and to budget, and to optimise the whole life value of assets on behalf of our clients. We work on projects such as HS2, The Shard, Battersea Power Station, Hinkley Point, Changi Airport, and clients such as Shell, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Nissan and Citibank.

The products we are building are cutting edge in our industry, allowing us to deliver these projects better than our competitors.

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