Construction - Change Management Specialist

Position Summary

The Change Management Specialist is responsible for identifying, documenting, pricing, tracking, negotiating, and closing changes to masonry contract scope throughout the project lifecycle. This position plays a critical role in protecting the company’s contractual rights and ensuring that additional work, deleted work, delays, and impacts are properly documented and converted into approved change orders.

Working closely with project managers, estimators, superintendents, foremen, accounting personnel, general contractors, architects, engineers, and owners, the Change Management Specialist will review project documents and field conditions to identify changes that may affect the masonry contractor’s scope, cost, schedule, or productivity.

The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of commercial masonry construction and can connect changes in drawings and field conditions to measurable impacts in labor, materials, equipment, schedule, and project cost.
Key Responsibilities
Change Identification
- Monitor architectural, structural, and project documents for changes affecting masonry scope.

- Review revised drawings, specifications, addenda, RFIs, ASIs, bulletins, architect’s instructions, and field directives.

- Identify additions, deletions, substitutions, revisions, and clarifications that may constitute changes to the masonry contract.

- Review field conditions and identify work that differs from the original contract documents.

- Identify potential changes resulting from unforeseen conditions, design revisions, coordination issues, access restrictions, sequencing changes, and other project impacts.

- Review RFI responses for changes or clarifications that may affect cost or schedule.

- Work with project managers and field personnel to ensure potential changes are identified as early as possible.

Change Documentation
- Maintain a comprehensive change-order log for assigned projects.

- Document the source, date, description, and potential impact of each change.

- Maintain supporting documentation including drawings, photographs, correspondence, RFIs, meeting minutes, daily reports, delivery records, and field documentation.

- Ensure changes are properly documented before additional work is performed whenever contract requirements allow.

- Develop clear and traceable records connecting each change to the resulting cost and schedule impact.

- Maintain organized records of submitted, approved, rejected, pending, and disputed changes.

Change Order Pricing
- Prepare detailed change-order pricing for masonry work.

- Develop labor, material, equipment, subcontractor, and other cost estimates associated with changes.

- Quantify additional or deleted masonry quantities.

- Calculate impacts associated with CMU, brick, stone, mortar, reinforcing, flashing, lintels, embeds, scaffolding, equipment, and other masonry-related materials and activities.

- Evaluate labor productivity and additional labor requirements resulting from changes.

- Account for applicable overhead, supervision, general conditions, insurance, bonds, and profit in accordance with company and contract requirements.

- Obtain pricing and supporting information from vendors and subcontractors when necessary.

- Coordinate pricing with estimators and project managers to ensure consistency with project requirements.

Contract & Scope Review
- Review masonry subcontracts, purchase orders, project specifications, drawings, and scope documents.

- Develop a strong understanding of contractual requirements related to changes, notices, pricing, and documentation.

- Compare original contract documents against revised documents to determine scope changes.

- Identify work that falls outside the original masonry contract scope.

- Assist project management in determining entitlement to additional compensation.

- Identify notice requirements and deadlines associated with pot