Senior Change Manager - Construction and Claims Advisory / HPM

The Senior Change Manager leads the evaluation, management, and resolution of complex construction changes, disputed change orders, claims, cost growth, schedule impacts, and related commercial risks for HPM clients. The position provides independent analysis and practical recommendations to clients and project teams using contractual, cost, schedule, engineering, procurement, and project performance information.

The role is also expected to contribute to the long-term growth of HPM’s Advisory Services practice through team leadership, service-line development, client relationship management, business development, and the delivery of advisory engagements for other clients.

Essential Functions

Change Order and Claims Analysis

• Lead the ongoing review and evaluation of change orders, disputed change orders, claims, requests for equitable adjustment, and related commercial matters.
• Evaluate the contractual, technical, cost, schedule, and factual support for proposed changes and claims.
• Identify incomplete documentation, unsupported costs, unclear entitlement, notice deficiencies, scope inconsistencies, schedule conflicts, and other potential weaknesses or risks in change-order and claim submissions.
• Analyze loss-of-productivity, disruption, delay, acceleration, escalation, extended overhead, and other construction cost or schedule impact claims.
• Evaluate areas of construction cost growth and determine the conditions, events, or project decisions contributing to the growth.
• Review contractual documents and project records to evaluate whether change-order, claim, dispute, and notice requirements have been appropriately administered.
• Distinguish relevant project facts from assumptions, unsupported assertions, or incomplete information and clearly document the basis for conclusions.
• Develop defensible analyses, recommendations, and supporting documentation based on available project records and accepted industry practices.

Project Controls and Data Analysis

• Review and interpret technical and nontechnical project information
• Analyze large and complex datasets using appropriate analytical methods and tools to identify trends, anomalies, inconsistencies, correlations, and material issues involving changes, claims, costs, productivity, and schedules.
• Validate information across multiple data sources and collaborate with appropriate technical and functional specialists when additional expertise is needed.
• Maintain organized workpapers, methodologies, assumptions, calculations, and source documentation sufficient to support review and replication of material analyses.

Risk Identification and Client Advisory

• Proactively identify early warning signs of project, commercial, contractual, cost, schedule, procurement, and execution risks.
• Monitor identified risks and recommend practical mitigation, documentation, escalation, or resolution strategies.
• Provide accurate and timely analysis to clients while meeting established quality standards and contractual deadlines.
• Work directly with client facilities, engineering, scheduling, procurement, cost management, quantity surveying, project management, legal, and executive leadership personnel.
• Facilitate discussions among client and project stakeholders concerning complex or disputed matters.
• Present findings, conclusions, risks, and recommendations clearly and concisely to client executives and other decision makers.
• Prepare written reports, executive presentations, decision-support materials, change and claims analyses, and other client deliverables.
• Protect confidential, proprietary, privileged, and client-sensitive information in accordance with HPM requirements, client agreements, and applicable law.

Practice and Business Development

• Support the development, expansion, and continuous improvement of HPM Advisory Services capabilities, methodologies, tools, templates, and quality standards.
• Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships or provide additional services that address legitimate client needs.
• Participate in business development activities, including client meetings, capability presentations, qualification packages, proposal development, interviews, scope development, and fee development.
• Assist leadership with evaluating potential service offerings, resource requirements, market opportunities, delivery risks, and implementation plans.
• Represent HPM professionally in client, industry, and business-development settings.
• Participate in special projects and perform other related duties consistent with the position’s purpose, qualifications, and level of responsibility.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, accounting, finance, business, economics, data analytics, or a related field.
• 10+ years in construction, project controls, cost management, change management, claims analysis, dispute resolution, commercial management, scheduling, or a related consulting field.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and other relevant project controls or analytical tools.
• Ability to travel to client and project locations as required.
• Valid Driver's License Required

Physical Demands and Working Environment:
The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Environment: Work is performed mainly in an indoor and outdoor setting with exposure to all types of weather and temperature conditions, and travel from site to site.

Physical: Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight; to operate equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination; to travel to other locations using various modes of private and commercial transportation; and to verbally communicate to exchange information.

Vision: See in the normal visual range with or without correction.

Hearing: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.

EOE - Vets/Disabilities

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