Associate Director - Delay

As our company grows and develops, we are ever expanding our teams. We have a great opportunity for a dedicated Associate Director - Delay to join our Advisory Division. SOCOTEC Advisory is a chartered quantity surveying and expert witness consultancy, renowned for its team of industry-recognised experts and delivery of robust and quality services. Our team is made up of approximately 60 Quantity Surveyors with a broad spectrum of experience. This allows the delivery of services across most sectors, including residential, infrastructure and marine, in both public and private sectors and enables expertise to be shared across the company.

We are looking for a proactive, reliable and flexible Associate Director to oversee the Management of Forensic Planning team reporting to the Senior Director. You will be responsible to take a brief from a client or its legal team, identify appropriate methodology for analysis of delay, identify the information required to deliver an appointment and to assist in developing budgets and work-plans to implement appointments.

Key Responsibilities

• Excellent report writing skills including competence to prepare reports (or parts thereof) suitable to use in adjudication, arbitration or litigation
• Excellent forensic analysis skills for delay and project management tasks
• Competent to analyse delay in construction and infrastructure projects using any appropriate analysis methodology
• Capable to select and implement an analysis methodology to suit the particular circumstances of the appointment
• Independent critical evaluation of project management performance
• Legal and contractual understanding of the status of expert evidence in adjudication, arbitration and litigation
• Highly knowledgeable in construction processes and technologies
• Commitment to lifelong learning
• Ability to share knowledge through mentoring and training
• Good management skills in identifying work activities to be completed and collaborating to resolve the tasks
• Management skills to identify and match available resources and skills with applicable deadlines

About Advisory

Our experienced team of industry professionals come from diverse backgrounds, experiences and expertise. Our modern, open plan working space promotes not only a sharing of skills and knowledge, but also an approachable, friendly and sociable environment. As well as the chance to soak up the expertise of your fellow employees, the unique, multi-strand nature of the business provides you with the opportunity to vary your workload and venture into areas of the industry you are interested in or may not have previously considered; such as Advisory and Expert Witness work.

What’s in it for you?

As well as a competitive salary, we can offer you a wide range of benefits including 25 days holiday with the opportunity to buy more, an electric car scheme, employee recognition schemes, family friendly support, employee benefits and discounts app, employee assistance programmes, and enhanced company pension.

SOCOTEC UK are proud to be Disability Confident accredited.

Why SOCOTEC?

Here at SOCOTEC UK, we have over 2,000 colleagues across our divisions delivering world-class services to our customers. We have several business streams that provide an unrivalled range of testing, inspection, certification and advisory services throughout the UK, and we deliver excellence to our customers by recruiting and retaining the very best industry talent. At SOCOTEC Advisory, we believe that a driven, inspired and challenged team is the key to success. We promote inclusivity, encourage individuality and have a zero-tolerance policy to discrimination, with the aim that every single member of our team will thrive both in and out of the workplace. We invest in our people. We push you to grow and we want you to progress. We believe in continued development and the pursuit of ambition. Our open and friendly office space promotes a culture of teamwork and provides the opportunity to ask, listen and learn from those around you. With a young, dynamic and exciting workplace, we are constantly striving, as a team, to develop and succeed.

Think you’ve got what it takes to add value to our success? We would love to hear from you and look forward to receiving your application. Building a safer and more sustainable world is the core mission we set out to achieve at SOCOTEC, it is at the heart of everything that we do. We are committed to acting as a key player in society, investing in innovative solutions to ensure social and environmental concerns are at the forefront of all of our business operations.