Associate Director, Construction Delay

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ABOUT THE FIRM

Secretariat professionals are entrusted with the world’s most high-stakes legal, financial, and regulatory matters. When you join Secretariat, you’re not just joining a firm – you’re joining a rapidly growing, elite team of experts and innovators dedicated to solving the most complex challenges that impact global business decisions.

From day one, your skills and expertise will be put to work alongside the world’s most renowned law firms, leading corporations, and influential institutions. Our teams are united by a passion for excellence, and together, we tackle intricate issues that shape pivotal financial, economic, and strategic decisions.

At Secretariat, we believe in the power of collaboration and continuous growth. Our open, inclusive culture is built on trust, recognition, and support, ensuring that every professional thrives in an environment that values diversity and innovation. Your professional journey is as important to us as the clients we serve.

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ABOUT OUR CONSTRUCTION DELAY TEAM

When it comes to understanding the details that have an impact on costly and disruptive construction delays, we have built a reputation that stands above all with decades of experience as engineers, project managers, architects, schedulers, and accountants. Our team is trusted for their sophisticated delay analysis involved in the biggest projects developed around the world, including notable buildings, infrastructure, power & utilities, and oil & gas works.

RESPONSIBILIITES

We are looking for an Associate Director who wants to play a significant role in the development of the practice. You will lead substantial parts of complex engagements, work directly with senior experts, lawyers and clients, develop junior colleagues and increasingly contribute to case strategy, client relationships and business development. For the right individual, the role provides a platform to develop toward greater expert and market-facing responsibility. You will work primarily on disputes involving delay, disruption, project controls, causation and associated financial impacts. You will join a growing practice in Germany at a stage where you can meaningfully influence how it develops.

Your responsibilities will include

• Reviewing project schedules, progress records, correspondence, contracts, technical documentation, cost records and other contemporaneous evidence.
• Performing and directing forensic delay and critical path analyses, including establishing and testing causation.
• Analysing disruption, productivity impacts and the financial consequences of delay and disruption.
• Quantifying impacts such as prolongation, acceleration, additional resources, productivity loss and other project-related cost consequences.
• Integrating...