Overview

As an Associate Director at Linesight, you will lead highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will build on your vast industry experience which will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. You will be mentored and supported by industry leaders and given the tools to grow. You will also be involved in and contribute to our business strategy as we continue to evolve. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

The successful candidate will lead the provision of commercial management and cost management services across major infrastructure commissions, manage strategic client relationships and contribute to the continued growth of our Infrastructure business. Working across transport, rail, roads, water, utilities, energy, ports and public infrastructure projects, you will provide commercial leadership throughout the project lifecycle and act as a recognised specialist in the administration of GCCC and NEC contracts.

The role is focused on the provision of client side commercial and cost management, primarily on GCCC and NEC projects, helping clients manage project costs, commercial risk, procurement and change control.

This is an opportunity for an ambitious commercial leader to influence some of Ireland's most significant infrastructure investments while helping develop our people, client relationships and market presence.

In this role you will:

Act as the primary point of contact for key infrastructure clients
Develop and maintain trusted long-term client relationships
Provide strategic commercial, procurement and contract advice
Identify opportunities for repeat business and account growth
Lead the provision of commercial management and cost management services across major infrastructure projects and programmes
Oversee cost planning, estimating, procurement and commercial management services
Review and assure key commercial deliverables
Lead commercial risk identification and mitigation activities
Monitor financial performance and profitability across commissions.

We would love to hear from you if you:

Are Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying, Construction Economics, Engineering or a related discipline
Are a Chartered member of the SCSI, RICS or equivalent professional body
Have a minimum 10-15 years experience in quantity surveyng, commercial management or cost management
Have significant experience delivering major infrastructure projects and programmes
Extensive experience leading commercial management teams on major infrastructure projects
Have extensive experience providing client-side commercial and cost management services
Have strong expertise in GCCC and NEC contract administration and commercial management
Have experience advising clients on commercial strategy, procurement, compensation events, forecasting and commercial risk
Have experience managing the commercial aspects of infrastructure projects rather than undertaking project management or programme management roles
Have experience with CostX or equivalent software
Have experience with Primavera P6 or equivalent scheduling software
Have experience providing advice and/or expert witness services to clients on claims for time and/or money under various dispute resolution forums.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!

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Associate Director, Cost Management - Infrastructure

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