Senior Contract Change Lead - Heavy Civil

Shimmick Corporation; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Life Insurance

Disability coverage

401(k) match

PTO & Holidays

Volunteer Time Off

Hybrid/flexible work

Job summary

Shimmick Corporation is seeking an experienced Contract Change Manager to lead the identification, development, pricing, negotiation, administration, and resolution of construction contract changes on a major Southern California project.

The ideal candidate will combine heavy civil estimating experience with strong contract administration, owner coordination, and commercial negotiation skills, working with project leadership, field operations, and the Client’s project team to develop

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering and 8 years of related experience in heavy civil construction.
• 10+ years of heavy civil construction experience.
• Experience on large, complex public infrastructure projects in Southern California.
• Experience performing both estimating and project-management responsibilities.
• Construction-phase experience with CM/GC, CMAR, PDB, DB, BB, JOC, or other public-sector delivery methods.
• Experience developing and negotiating change proposals involving civil, structural, utility, earthwork, environmental, traffic-control, or subcontracted work.
• Knowledge of California public works contracting requirements.
• Familiarity with construction scheduling concepts, time-impact evaluations, and requests for contract-time extensions.
• Experience developing change-management procedures, logs, workflows, reports, and negotiation materials.

Responsibilities

• Manage construction contract changes from initial identification through documentation, pricing, negotiation, execution, and closeout.
• Review contract documents, design revisions, directives, RFIs, field conditions, and project records to identify changes and evaluate entitlement.
• Prepare and submit contractual notices, requests for quotation, change-order proposals, requests for equitable adjustment, and related correspondence.
• Develop detailed change-order estimates covering labor, equipment, materials, subcontractors, trucking, indirect costs, and schedule-related impacts.
• Coordinate with field operations to validate quantities, means and methods, production rates, logistics, sequencing, and cost assumptions.
• Prepare clear proposal narratives defining changed scope, contractual basis, assumptions, exclusions, pricing, and anticipated schedule effects.
• Lead or support negotiations with the Client regarding scope, entitlement, quantities, pricing, indirect costs, and schedule impacts.
• Review and negotiate subcontractor and supplier change proposals, including scope, pricing, assumptions, exclusions, and risk allocation.
• Coordinate documentation and cost tracking for directed, force-account, and time-and-material work.
• Work with project controls and scheduling personnel to evaluate cost, sequencing, milestone, and schedule impacts.
• Maintain the project change log and track estimated, submitted, negotiated, approved, committed, and incurred change values.
• Ensure approved changes are incorporated into project budgets, forecasts, schedules, subcontracts, purchase orders, and cost-control systems.
• Maintain complete and contemporaneous records supporting entitlement, pricing, negotiations, and schedule impacts.
• Provide change-related information for monthly forecasts, risk reports, cash-flow projections, and management reporting.
• Support project leadership on significant commercial issues, disputed changes, claims avoidance, and contract closeout.

Skills

Estimating

Contract administration

Owner coordination

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Shimmick Corporation is seeking an experienced Contract Change Manager to lead the identification, development, pricing, negotiation, administration, and resolution of construction contract changes on a major Southern California project.

The ideal candidate will combine heavy civil estimating experience with strong contract administration, owner coordination, and commercial negotiation skills, working with project leadership, field operations, and the Client’s project team to develop