Building Consultant – General Contractor
Location
Florida
Posted
69 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Building Consultant – General Contractor
Keystone Experts + Engineers
• Receive and respond to assignments promptly, typically scheduling inspections within 24 hours. • Conduct thorough onsite property inspections (often with engineers) within 7 days of assignment. • Access rooftops, crawlspaces, and other challenging environments to conduct full evaluations. • Prepare detailed photo reports, cost estimates (using Xactimate or similar), and written reports within 7 days post-inspection. • Collaborate with Keystone’s Managing Building Consultant during the review and approval process, responding within 24 hours of report feedback. • Occasionally travel to perform CAT (Catastrophe) event evaluations. • Participate in joint inspections and communicate effectively with policyholders, engineers, and claim adjusters. • Act as an expert witness, when required, and provide credible testimony based on your construction or appraisal experience.
Job Requirements
- Experience in general contracting, construction, home remodeling, mitigation, or related fields.
- Previous or current contractor’s license (if required in your state).
- Hands-on experience with insurance-related repairs or claims estimating.
- Proficiency in construction estimating methods, including time & materials and software-based systems.
- Proficient or familiar with industry software such as: Xactimate (desktop & mobile), Symbility, Matterport, DocuSketch, Hover.
- Prior experience preparing estimates and proposals, including large-loss projects.
- IICRC certification and/or mitigation contracting experience is a plus.
- Insurance appraisal or umpire services experience preferred.
- Strong written communication skills to produce detailed, professional reports.
- Physically capable of conducting inspections, including accessing roofs and crawl spaces.
- Any experience with expert testimony, depositions, or published industry articles is a plus.
- Must be organized, detail-oriented, and able to meet deadlines.
Benefits
- Flexible, contract-based opportunity
- Ability to travel for field inspections and CAT events
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DEKRA SERVICES INCAs a global provider of comprehensive services and solutions, we help our customers improve their safety, security, and sustainability outcomes. DEKRA is the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification (TIC) company offering innovative professional services in various fields. We hope you’ll consider a career with DEKRA North America as we strive to become the Global Partner for a Safe World!
Role Description Canadian-based French-speaking candidates needed! A Day in the Life and the Impact You’ll Make: You will help save lives, reduce serious injuries, and improve the culture of DEKRA’s clients through organizational change initiatives that drive safety performance improvement through client engagements. Our Consultant positions are critical for the overall success of any client engagement, and are the lynch pin between the front line through the organization to the c-suite. The overall objective of our Consultants is to utilize organizational change knowledge to deliver the results that our clients are seeking, become a trusted advisor, and expand the scope and breadth of existing client engagements. When leading projects, they are accountable for assuring that their team can effectively deliver our primary Consulting solutions with excellence by coaching and mentoring with sincere, candid feedback. To be successful in this position our Consultants will need a deep understanding of our centerline solutions, be able to adapt these solutions to meet client objectives and understand how the offering can be integrated into the client organization. What You’ll Do: - Delivering workshops and presentations to groups of various sizes. - Conducting one-on-one or small group field coaching with clients. - With advancement to Project Lead Consultant, perform client-related project management working on smaller to gradually larger and more complex projects. Three key performance areas summarize the scope of this position: Client Facing responsibilities: - Understand the client’s objectives and needs and adapt the centerline model for the client engagement giving the greatest probability of success. - Understand the role of Governance in Safety. - Ability to establish effective safety governance that aligns with the client organizational structure and functioning. - Guide and facilitate measurable governance. - Delivering DEKRA’s suite of solutions with mastery of the concepts combined with industry subject matter expertise. - Utilize centerline positions and materials that illustrate DEKRA’s Point of View on leadership, safety, and project execution. - Coach client leaders from the frontlines to senior leaders and become their trusted advisor. - Track progress in meeting client objectives and adjust when necessary. - Develop a communication structure to reliably remain up to date on the client’s situation including safety performance, successes, business challenges, industry trends, etc. - Communicate routinely and effectively to the client leadership team. - Practice honesty: be truthful with the client, in a manner that preserves the relationship, even when it’s hard to do so. 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Business Responsibilities: - Contribute to a safe and healthy work environment by actively participating, taking responsibility, and following established procedures and policies. - Maintain a complete and accurate project plan for the life of the project including consultant scheduling to meet delivery needs. - Meet goals of personally delivering billable hours as assigned by your manager in addition to working on assigned internal projects. - Manage projects toward stated realization rate, ensuring effective utilization of consultants. - Achieve monthly forecast accuracy. - Expand the scope of client relationships and maintain long term engagements by identifying additional areas of opportunity and surface to the Project/Program Manager. - Maintain a professional brand of credibility internally at DEKRA and externally within the marketplace. - Gain acceptance by existing clients to be references for future projects. Qualifications - Education: Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred. - Experience: 8+ years of experience in organizational change, or operations with safety responsibility, or in an industrial consulting role, or in a safety role. - Certifications/Licenses: CSP or equivalent, LEAN Green/Black Belt preferred. - Presence in front of Leaders – first line though senior manager. - Demonstrated cognitive flexibility. - Ability to successfully navigate client ambiguity. - Ability to develop deep knowledge of DEKRA solutions. - Ability to interpret the impact of non-safety processes on safety and culture. - Ability to develop a strategic plan which supports the scope of work and overall safety excellence. - Ability to manage client excellence and DEKRA business. - Ability to create a project team culture that supports and aligns with business values. - Fluency with various Governance structures and how they “fit” and function in various situations. - Fluency with leading and lagging metrics and the ability to propose specific metrics for the client. - Fluency in applying effective change management. - Fluency in Safety Management System best practices and ability to propose enhancements to close gaps. - Ability to lead a matrixed team. - Ability to develop others. Physical Considerations - Must be able to work in a variety of client locations, environments, and conditions. This may include climbing stairs, walking long distances, walking on rough and uneven terrain, walking through client work facilities, working in heat/cold conditions, indoors and outdoors. - Must be able to accommodate working various shifts as client activities are scheduled. - Must be able to withstand the rigors of extensive travel. - May require difficult travel and long periods of driving. - Ability to move and conduct work with full range of motion. - Ability to lift 25-50lbs (luggage). - Extended periods of computer-based work. - Extended periods of standing. Travel Considerations - Domestic and/or potential for international travel required, estimated up to 75%. Benefits - Compensation: This position allows for hourly professional fees according to confirmed project work; with fees ranging from $70/hour CAD to $180/hour CAD depending on the type of work delivered. 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