(M/F) Kardham Paris - Consulting Project Director – Sustainable Development
Assistance for Project Management
Located in Paris, Strasbourg, Lyon, Toulouse/Bordeaux, Nantes/Rennes, Lille, Marseilles and Casablanca, KARDHAM currently has nearly 400 employees, with turnover of more than 86 million euros in 2020.
Consulting Division
The Consulting Division and its Owner Assistance Department are continuing to generate growth with a raft of projects that are steadily increasing in number and complexity (office users, owners/investors, education, hospitality, industry, logistics and sales).
As such, we’ve created an owner-assistance team for environment/sustainable development projects, which performs audits, provides upstream consulting, environmental planning, and support for certifications / labels, supervises projects during the design and execution phases, factors operations/maintenance issues into the projects, etc.
To continue generating this growth, we are looking for a Consulting Project Director – Sustainable Development (M/F).
Responsibilities:
Under the supervision of a division manager, the Project Director will coordinate and oversee large-scale projects that involve:
- Advising project owners and prime contractors on environmental and performance issues, including environmental strategy
- Analysing the site and defining the profile, requirements and performance assessment methods during the planning stage
- Conducting general cost studies that account for operations and maintenance conditions
- Overseeing the project during the design and execution phases
- Conducting special owner-assistance studies on environmental, energy and performance issues, while managing the related tools and processes
- Managing environmental certifications and labels
The Consulting Project Director (Sustainable Development) represents the company to its clients regarding all matters under their responsibility, ensuring customer satisfaction and the success and profitability of the project.
Depending on the size of their assignments, they may work in tandem with the department’s project managers and supervise them. They may also work with the other consultants from the Consulting Division on joint projects involving owner-assistance, workplace, change, BIM, and Smart Building consulting.
They will participate in developing the division’s sales.
The Project Director will have some prospects for advancement within the department, depending on their results and their level of involvement.
Education:
M/F: You must have a master’s degree in generalist structural engineering or real estate, a D.E. degree in architecture, or a university-level equivalent. You must also have at least eight years of experience in managing owner assistance projects, including sustainable development projects, across all phases (auditing, planning, design, execution).
You must be proficient in building assessment, with a good understanding of the regulatory, technical, environmental, energy, regulatory and normative requirements
You are thorough and have good writing skills (customer communication, project documentation), and work well with clients and co-workers on an interpersonal level. You are independent, engaged and highly capable of adapting within a dynamic and growing team. You are organised and capable of bringing people together, and you know how to manage priorities to achieve objectives.
A working knowledge of English is needed for this position, in order to deal with sales prospects for the Owner Assistance Department.
This position is at our Paris branch (17th arrondissement), and must be filled as soon as possible.