Assistant Vice President Commercial Executive (IBX)

Responsibilities

• Aid in overseeing the control activities for the entire lifecycle of the Interborough Express including budgeting, cost control, scheduling, risk management, and contract management.
• Maintain program control by monitoring actual project performance, anticipating and forecasting potential claims, negotiating and resolving claims/disputes, ensuring proper processing of change orders, contract amendments, and payments, and monitoring recovery plans.
• Oversee contract management by overseeing contract procurement schedule and process, ensuring contract deliverables are received, ensuring MTA C&D compliance with its own contractual commitments and responsibilities, and tracking all contractual deadlines.
• Manage project management systems by standing up necessary systems for a project of this scale, ensuring project-wide compliance with system and project policies, procedures, and standards, and interfacing with systems experts in the Delivery Services Office.
• Ensure systems compliance with federal grant requirements and obtain necessary regulatory approvals.
• Interface with the Development department to ensure necessary funding is in place as required to not impede project progress and the Contracts departments to ensure proper protocols are followed for contract procurements, change orders, and amendments.
• Supervise a team of budget, schedule and risk experts; coordinate project activities with the project team, C&D staff, contractors, consultants, and third parties; and assist with community and elected outreach activities.
• Consult with and provide recommendations to senior management for critical issue resolution.
• Maintain D-Ber and PM/CM compliance with diversity requirements by engaging with firms to ensure good faith efforts are made.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Architecture, Economics, Construction or Project Management, Business Administration, Transportation, or a related field.
• Master’s Degree in related field preferred.
• Minimum of fourteen (14) years’ related experience.
• Minimum of eight (8) years in a management or supervisory role and/or project/commercial manager role in a large, multi-faceted organization.