Office Director

Rider Levett Bucknall RLB; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rider Levett Bucknall is seeking an Office Director to provide strategic leadership across the Dallas office, overseeing cost management, building surveying, project management, and advisory services for a diverse project portfolio.

The role drives value through client understanding, proactive opportunity identification, and rigorous delivery governance from feasibility through handover. Excellent communication and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum education as listed, or equivalent experience.
• 5–10 years’ management experience of staff and major projects.
• Expertise in planning, development, implementation and evaluation of large, complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Identify target clients and build relationships to secure repeat business.
• Lead delivery from feasibility to handover and maintain project outcomes.
• Prepare proposals, fee submissions, and client presentations.
• Contribute to team marketing and cross-region collaboration.
• Ensure scope, quality, budget, and schedule alignment across projects.

Skills

Quantity surveying

Cost management

Project management

Communication skills

Education

4-year college degree in quantity surveying, construction management, architecture or engineering science

Job description

Overview Of Role

The Office Director provides strategic leadership and oversees all office operations, delivering cost management, building surveying, project management, and advisory services across a diverse portfolio of projects. This role is responsible for ensuring consistent, high-quality service that aligns with and advances client objectives.

This Office Director proactively identifies opportunities to add value throughout the project lifecycle, applying sound judgment and expertise to enhance outcomes. By leveraging a deep understanding of client needs and project dynamics, the Director helps drive successful delivery and ensures projects achieve desired results in terms of scope, quality, budget, and schedule.

Title

Office Director

Reporting to

Executive Vice President

Overview Of Role

The Office Director provides strategic leadership and oversees all office operations, delivering cost management, building surveying, project management, and advisory services across a diverse portfolio of projects. This role is responsible for ensuring consistent, high-quality service that aligns with and advances client objectives.

This Office Director proactively identifies opportunities to add value throughout the project lifecycle, applying sound judgment and expertise to enhance outcomes. By leveraging a deep understanding of client needs and project dynamics, the Director helps drive successful delivery and ensures projects achieve desired results in terms of scope, quality, budget, and schedule.

Truth. Trust. Together. Tomorrow.

At RLB, we speak the truth, build for the long term, look out for each other and work to do good. We are driven by outcomes, creating tailored solutions that deliver successful projects. We believe that when we bring together the right people doing things the right way, we make progress for our clients and our communities.

RLB is an award-winning international firm, known for providing property and construction consultancy advice at all stages of the construction cycle. Utilizing its many years of experience and professionally trained employees, RLB continues to firmly establish itself as one of the major players in the construction industry throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. Our employees are involved in a variety of projects across a range of sectors, from sports arenas and healthcare to higher education and convention centers.

As a privately held company, we hire the best people, give them exceptional training, and provide extensive opportunities for professional growth while working on exciting projects while providing an excellent compensation and benefits package.

Essential Functions

• Identify individual key target clients and contacts for incorporation within business plan
• Build customer relationships to ensure high standards of technical service, secure repeat business and develop profitable workload
• Identify opportunities with existing clients and contacts and follow‑up with Senior Director or President
• Identify opportunities with existing clients to cross sell other services of Rider Levett Bucknall
• Contribute to monthly team meetings and business development activity
• Share marketing information with other regions within Company
• Prepare proposals and fee submissions
• Preparation and delivery of presentations
• Maintain individual project profiles
• Attend external functions to raise the profile of Rider Levett Bucknall and to generate new contacts
• Responsible for all aspects of the delivery of projects from feasibility to handover and maintenance
• Contributes to team performance by collaboration and effective communication.
• Contributes to and understands the clients desired project outcomes, identifies opportunities to add value to accomplish the desired outcomes.
• Adds to team effort by accomplishing other duties as assigned.

• Minimum Education (or substitute experience) required: 4-year college degree in quantity surveying, construction management, architecture or engineering science.
• Minimum Experience required: 5-10 years’ relevant experience of management of staff including project professionals and/or technicians, managing major projects including development of project scope, goals, work plans, timeliness and implantation strategies, developing measurement processes/methods for assessing progress toward goals and project outcomes. Prior experience with developing and monitoring contracts required.
• Skills Required: Expert in quantity surveying, cost management, or project management, including planning, development, implementation and evaluation of large, complex projects. Good communication skills required.

Physical Requirements And Working Conditions

• Often work in an Indoor office environment. Equipment used includes computers and standard office machines. Essential physical tasks include: the ability to work on a computer and the ability to answer and speak on a telephone.
• May also require:
• Sitting
• Standing for long periods of time
• Walking, carrying, pushing, stooping, crouching, and pulling

RLB is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company does not and will not discriminate in employment and personnel practices based on race, sex, age, handicap, religion, national origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above listed items.