Senior Associate - Construction Advisory
Role Overview
The Senior Associate will deliver complex construction claims and dispute engagements across the EMEA and APAC regions.
The role involves forensic analysis, claim development, dispute support, client service, and development of junior team members.
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Company Overview
J.S. Held is a global consulting firm combining technical, scientific, financial, and strategic expertise to help clients realize value and mitigate risk.
The firm advises organizations facing high-stakes, complex, contentious, and critical situations.
Role Overview
The Senior Associate will deliver complex construction claims and dispute engagements across the EMEA and APAC regions.
The role involves forensic analysis, claim development, dispute support, client service, and development of junior team members.
Claims Analysis and Development
- Prepare and substantiate Extension of Time, delay, acceleration, and productivity claims.
- Perform forensic schedule analysis covering critical path impacts, concurrency, and causation.
- Evaluate contractual entitlement and quantify prolongation costs, disruption damages, and associated losses.
- Develop persuasive claims narratives supported by factual and analytical evidence.
Programme and Data Analysis
- Review programmes, schedule updates, progress records, and project controls data to identify delay drivers and project risks.
- Maintain analytical models and structured, auditable datasets for claims and dispute engagements.
- Analyse contracts, correspondence, change records, meeting minutes, and site records.
- Translate complex project information into concise findings for technical and non-technical audiences.
Contractual and Dispute Support
- Interpret FIDIC and other standard contract forms to establish entitlement positions.
- Draft claims submissions, rebuttals, position papers, and sections of expert reports.
- Support adjudication, arbitration, mediation, and litigation processes.
- Assist consultants and expert witnesses with evidence and hearing materials.
Team Leadership and Quality
- Provide guidance and technical support to Associates and junior team members.
- Review analyses and deliverables for accuracy, consistency, and quality.
- Contribute to methodologies, tools, best practices, proposals, and thought leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline.
- 5-7 years of experience in construction claims, dispute resolution, planning and scheduling, or contract and commercial management.
- Working knowledge of FIDIC or similar contract frameworks.
- Experience using Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Excel.
- Understanding of forensic delay analysis, strong analytical skills, and excellent report-writing and communication abilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- International construction project experience across EMEA and/or APAC.
- Exposure to the Middle East construction sector.
- Experience in a contractor, consultant, or construction advisory environment.
- Progress toward or attainment of MRICS, PMP, or other relevant credentials.
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