Job Title

Building Consultant, Project Development & Services

Job Description Summary

This role will report into the Director â“ Building Consulting. This role will currently have Nil direct reports.
Cushman & Wakefield Building Consultancy (BC) team provide technical building and engineering advice to property owners and occupiers throughout the SEA Region. We primarily advise clients on the condition, compliance, risk, function and performance of their buildings and assets and provide associated life cycle cost advice. In conjunction with our Project and Program Management teams, we provide management services to deliver capital replacement, refurbishment, maintenance and/or repair works.
Our Services include:
â¢Technical Due Diligence;
â¢Building Condition Audits;
â¢Asset Registers;
â¢Make Good Assessments;
â¢Property Insurance Assessments;
â¢Project Cost Assessments;
â¢Strategic Asset Management Plans;
â¢Capital and Operational Expenditure Planning;
â¢Planned Maintenance Management Plans; and
â¢Project scoping and management of Building refurbishment, upgrades and repair works;
Overview of Market Sectors:
Commercial, Industrial, Retail, Aged Care, Education, Mining, Health, Hospitality, Agribusiness and Defence.
This role is responsible for:
** Undertaking building inspections throughout Malaysia and SEA region.
** Providing technical advice and associated high-standard reporting on building and asset condition, compliance, risk, function, performance and cost.
** Providing technical building scope of work documents for rectification and/or replacement activities including managing the project from commencement to final completion.
** Providing guidance and support to other staff within the team.

Job Description

Responsibilities

·       Assist the senior management team with process improvement and innovation.

·       HSSE implementation.

·       Undertake building and asset inspections and prepare technical reports relating to the provided scope of works. As our team operates on a national basis, regular travel within Malaysia is a specific requirement to undertake inspections.

·       Prepare scope of work reports relating to building repairs, maintenance or replacement.

·       Manage repair, replacement or maintenance projects.

·       Document and publish all lessons learned across projects / programs managed.

·       Assist with preparation of business development submissions.

Accountabilities

Consultancy:

• Engaging with account leaders and client stakeholders to understand stakeholder requirements and priorities.

• Performing condition reporting and asset lifecycle modelling to develop maintenance, repair and capital expenditure forecasts.

• Producing annual and longer-term asset capital works plans and project plans.

• Conducting asset data collection activities, at times through vendor engagement.

• Managing delivery of inspection programs through governance of process and training and management of inspection resources and/or directly conducting asset condition audits through site inspections.

• Ensure all service deliverables are fully aligned with contract scope and stakeholder expectations.

Project Management:

• Provide leadership and direction to the project team as required.

• Ensure that internal and external reporting is conducted in accordance with published timetables and that the content is accurate and presented in an articulate and clear format.

• Define project context and scopes.

• Manage the overall project delivery and take responsibility for the project outcome.

• Facilitate lessons learned exercises.

• Establish, manage and build effective relationships.

• Demonstrate political and strategic awareness.

• Coach and mentor the project team.

Quality Management:

• Ensure that quality assurance is implemented as required across the project.

• Implement project quality improvements.

• Review the contents of quality audits and act on recommendations contained therein.

Project Communication:

• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to establish and maintain positive relationships.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation:

• Contribute to continuous improvement and innovation initiatives through supporting or owning and delivering business process improvement projects.

• Undertake research and discovery exercises to interrogate and understand current processes to identify opportunities for improvement.

• Utilise or develop technology in designing solutions to meet opportunities for improvement.

• Conduct effective management of change in implementation of process improvements through principles such as effective communication, documentation and training.

People Leadership:

• Advise and recommend staff training and development.

• Adhere to enterprise regulations and legislation.

• Manage the project team and stakeholders.

• Assess human resource outcomes.

Attributes

·       Able to work independently and as part of a wider team.

·       Able to identify priorities and achieve key client outcomes.

·       Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative nature.

·       Critical thinking, strong problem-solving abilities and positive solution-focussed attitude.

·       Proactiveness, display initiative when resolving issues.

·       Quality and continuous improvement focus.

·       Design minded perspective to functional solution design.

·       Diligence, attention to detail.

·       Demonstrated ability of delivering complex projects.

·       Ability to understand strategic importance of work without losing sight of the detail.

·       Ability to influence the behaviour of people who are not direct reports.

·       Demonstrated negotiation and conflict management skills.

Key Measures

Financial:

• Assist the Manager and Consultancy Team to work within the agreed budget.

• Provide required accurate cost forecasts to facilitate financial planning and budgeting.

Operations:

• Asset maintenance is appropriately compliant with statutory standards and industry best practice.

• Contribute to the development and continual improvement of C&W process and procedures.

• Time utilisation of over 80% achieved.

• Team utilisation.

• Successful completion of projects on time, within budget and to all required deliverables.

• Progress towards achievement of half yearly and yearly management goals.

People:

• Positive working relationship with C&W staff.

• Maintain strong, positive relationships with C&W staff, client stakeholders and service vendors.

Customer:

• External customer feedback.

• Internal customer feedback.

Corporate:

• Acts as an organisational role model by actively demonstrating C&Wâ™s; values, behaviour, procedures, safety and sustainability leadership.

People Management

·       Negotiate with line managers for the acquisition of required project resources.

·       Determine and assess the need for additional staff and / or consultants and recruit resources if necessary.

·       Develop project team members by ensuring project tasks are aligned to resourceâ™s career interests where possible.

·       Identify and address training needs.

·       Conduct performance evaluations with project team members and provide coaching / mentoring as required.

·       Provide regular feedback to line managers of project resources and provide information that will support staff performance reviews.

·       Proactively identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.

·       Resolve difficult personnel situations directly, using appropriate discretion, HR advice, and respect for the individual.

·       Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.

·       Mentor more junior staff and assist new recruits.

Others

• Proactively review workplace systems / processes to innovate and continuously improve the customer journey and workplace experience.

• Performs other duties as requested by your direct manager.

• Provides relief services during leave and overload periods.

• Development of operational standards / playbooks / operating manuals for all aspects of the client workplace.

Requirements

• Circa 7 to 10 years property / construction industry experience.

• Experience and knowledge of all building elements including a broad understanding of building services.

• Circa 3 to 5 yearsâ™ experience in a similar role providing consultancy services.

• Degree level qualification in building surveying, asset engineering, building engineering, architecture or equivalent construction related degree.

• Achieved industry recognised professional qualification, such as RICS, PMI, CIOB, EA or similar.

• Industry specific training in contracts and procurement processes.

• Able to work independently and as part of a wider team.

• Able to identify priorities and achieve key client outcomes.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative nature.

• Critical thinking, strong problem-solving abilities and positive solution-focussed attitude.

• Proactiveness, display initiative when resolving issues.

• Quality and continuous improvement focus.

• Design minded perspective to functional solution design.

• Demonstrated ability of delivering complex projects.

• Ability to understand strategic importance of work without losing sight of the detail.

• Ability to influence the behaviour of people who are not direct reports.

• Demonstrated negotiation and conflict management skills.

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