Strategic Change Order Lead for Projects

Divcon Controls; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunities for Growth

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401K with Employer Match

Disability Coverage

Flexible PTO

Field-Based Employee Benefits

Job summary

Divcon Controls, headquartered in Dallas, TX, seeks a Change Order Specialist to coordinate the operating change order process across active projects, identifying scope, cost, and schedule impacts and routing them for timely pricing and submission. You will gather contract requirements, field records, labor and material details, directives, and schedule effects to support accurate change orders.

You will collaborate with Project Executives, Engineering, and field teams to capture complete

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience in construction change order management, project controls, contract administration, project engineering, cost controls, or project-management support.
• Experience with BAS/BMS, MEP, electrical, HVAC controls, mission-critical construction, or other technical subcontractor environments preferred.
• Experience working across multiple concurrent projects or project portfolios preferred.
• Experience with construction ERP or project-management platforms such as Spectrum, Procore, or similar systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support the change order process across active projects by tracking potential scope, cost, schedule, and field-condition impacts that may require commercial action.
• Partner with Project Executives, Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, Engineering, and field teams to identify potential change events and gather the information necessary to support change order development.
• Review project contracts, scopes of work, drawings, RFIs, customer directives, and other project records to help identify work that may fall outside the original contractual scope.
• Gather and organize supporting documentation, including labor and material detail, field reports, correspondence, photos, RFIs, directives, schedule impacts, and other relevant project records.
• Work closely with Sales Engineering to ensure complete and accurate operational information is available to support change order pricing and submission.
• Maintain visibility into open change events, documentation status, cost exposure, submission status, aging, and outstanding actions across assigned projects.
• Follow up with project teams on missing or incomplete documentation to reduce delays in change order preparation and improve turnaround time.
• Support proactive project cost management by helping ensure labor, material, schedule, and other cost impacts are captured as they occur rather than after project completion.
• Promote consistency in change order documentation and help standardize workflows, supporting records, and handoffs between Field Operations, Project Management, and Sales Engineering.
• Escalate aging, incomplete, or high-risk change order items to appropriate Operations leadership when additional action or decision-making is required.
• Support project and portfolio reviews by providing current visibility into change order activity, open cost exposure, documentation gaps, and items requiring follow-up.

Skills

Contract interpretation

Change order workflows

Project cost controls

Documentation management

Cross-functional collaboration

Excel proficiency

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management

Equivalent experience considered

Tools

Spectrum

Procore

Job description

Divcon Controls, headquartered in Dallas, TX, seeks a Change Order Specialist to coordinate the operating change order process across active projects, identifying scope, cost, and schedule impacts and routing them for timely pricing and submission. You will gather contract requirements, field records, labor and material details, directives, and schedule effects to support accurate change orders.

You will collaborate with Project Executives, Engineering, and field teams to capture complete