Construction Change Manager — Cost, Schedule & Impact

HazTek Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full-time employment

Competitive benefits

Travel opportunities

Professional development

Job summary

HazTek Safety Management is seeking a Change Manager in Houston to lead the project change-management process, ensuring proper documentation, evaluation, and integration of changes into cost and schedule while protecting commercial interests.

The role requires coordinating with design teams, contractors, and stakeholders; managing change logs and approvals; and identifying cost-saving opportunities, with travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience in construction change management, project controls, cost management, contracts, or commercial management.
• Strong knowledge of change orders, contractor proposals, cost analysis, and schedule impacts.
• Ability to review labor, equipment, material, subcontractor, markup, and quantity documentation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all aspects of the project change-management process, ensuring changes are properly identified, documented, reviewed, and approved.
• Maintain change logs, status tracking, coding, approval workflows, and supporting documentation.
• Identify and track potential change events, trends, RFIs, design developments, field conditions, allowances, buyout variances, and owner-directed changes.
• Review contractor change proposals and verify scope, quantities, labor, equipment, materials, subcontractor costs, markups, credits, allowances, and potential duplication.
• Coordinate with project leadership, design teams, contractors, cost consultants, schedulers, procurement, and other stakeholders to evaluate and resolve changes.
• Evaluate cost and schedule impacts, including critical-path, milestone, fragnet, and time-impact considerations where applicable.
• Monitor cumulative change exposure, contingency usage, project trends, and forecast-at-completion impacts.
• Identify opportunities for cost avoidance, value engineering, mitigation, recovery, and risk reduction.
• Prepare change documentation and decision packages outlining scope, contractual basis, cost impact, schedule impact, risk, alternatives, and recommendations.
• Track approved changes through contract modifications, budget transfers, forecast updates, and payment processing.
• Support the review and resolution of disputed changes, claims, and contractual issues while maintaining required notices and documentation.

Skills

Construction change management

Cost and schedule impacts

Documentation and auditing

Negotiation and communication

Tools

Cost analysis tools

Scheduling tools

Job description

HazTek Safety Management is seeking a Change Manager in Houston to lead the project change-management process, ensuring proper documentation, evaluation, and integration of changes into cost and schedule while protecting commercial interests.

The role requires coordinating with design teams, contractors, and stakeholders; managing change logs and approvals; and identifying cost-saving opportunities, with travel as needed.