Summary:
The Project Specialist (PS) is responsible for assisting the project manager in initiating, establishing, guiding, and controlling one or more design/construction projects from inception through completion. Incumbent uses knowledge of federal sector and agency organizations, operations, financial and scheduling processes, as well as professional discipline skills to help guide project formulation and development, through to completion of projects that are within quality, budget, and schedule commitments.
Serves as a Project Specialist with responsibility for writing scope of work, developing Government estimates, assisting the negotiation of task orders, managing and overseeing contracted efforts, providing quality assurance of contracted products, and closing out compliance, pre-design, design and construction management efforts provide by numerous external contractors performing professional services on major, highly complex, multi phased projects.
May assist in managing construction contracts for repair and alteration contracts. Duties may include but are not limited to the following:
Participates in Pre-Construction Conferences, including assisting in preparing agendas, notifying participants, may chair meetings and prepare meeting minutes and supports the contract specialist, COR, and CM project inspector (s) in this effect. Monitors inspection of the A/E and construction contractor’s work with occasional site visits to assure that pre-design, design, and construction projects are in compliance with federal, state, and local codes,client policy and building requirements.
Coordinates closely with Project Managers, Contract Administration, A/E and Construction Management personnel to insure modifications to contracts are fair and reasonable and are processed in a timely and efficient manner with minimal disruption to the overall project schedule.
Ensures that all close out requirements such as operation and maintenance manuals, as-builts, completion reports, and performance evaluation are completed and processed in a timely manner.