Construction Specialist (12 Month Contract)

Job title: Construction Specialist (12 Month Contract)

Company: Lululemon Athletica

Job description: Description & Requirements

Who we are

lululemon is a yoga-inspired technical apparel company up to big things. The practice and philosophy of yoga informs our overall purpose to elevate the world through the power of practice. We are proud to be a growing global company with locations all around the world, from Vancouver to Shanghai, and places in between. We owe our success to our innovative product, our emphasis on our stores, our commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we get to make in every community we are in.

About this team

The construction team within Store Development, supports the development, budgeting, and execution of all brick and mortar development. The team delivers against the defined real estate yearly plan for mainline, optimizations, and renovations, and supports the existing store fleet through minor works, initiatives, and rollouts.

A day in the life:

This role serves as the key support function through the design development and construction execution of our stores.

• Supports project through development while tracking to key milestones and adhering to established budget and schedule metrics.
• Maintaining strong relationships with internal business units and cross-functional partners to ensure that new standards and processes are understood and incorporated into the execution of projects.
• Produce detailed drawing reviews and redlines of architectural drawings to support with scope development, bid accuracy, and cost management.
• Manage the procurement and bidding of owner furnished items.
• Communicating project schedule or cost impacts to Project Managers in a timely and professional manner to mitigate the overall negative impact to the company.
• Manages the performance and relationships of owner furnished item vendors during the course of construction, and actively participates in vendor onboarding, QBRs, and provides feedback to ensure a culture of continuous improvement.
• Provide direct management for temp spaces, and small scope projects.
• Accountable for financial project administration (creating purchase orders, receiving payments, solving invoice discrepancies, and producing project budget reconciliations).
• Track construction project costs, evaluating incoming EWA’s for accuracy, and maintaining a log of potential project costs to allow for timely approvals and reporting.
• Responsible for managing weekly reporting on project progress for leadership as requested.
• Delivering additional projects, duties, and assignment as required and/or by request by the Manager, Construction Services.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 4 year college level degree and 3 years of project coordination experience within retail and/or commercial development, or a combination of equivalent experience
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills (internally and externally).
• Must be versatile and able to manage multiple projects in various stages at any once time in the life cycle of a project.
• Practiced in development processes, procurement, vendor management, client relations.
• Continuous improvement mindset, to improve both self, team, and our extended partner network.
• Proficient in MS Office, Excel, Sharepoint.

Must haves:

• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
• Communicates with honesty and kindness, and creates the space for others to do the same.
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.

Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest. lululemon is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This Equal Employment Opportunity policy applies to all practices relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, transfer, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. While management is primarily responsible for seeing that lululemon equal employment opportunity policies are implemented, you share in the responsibility for assuring that, by your personal actions, the policies are effective.

lululemon is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you would like someone from our team to contact you for individualized support, email us at . In your email, please include the position title, the location of the position and the nature of your request.

Expected salary:

Location: Vancouver, BC

Job date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 23:38:44 GMT