In general, the Owner's Representative will have the primary responsibility of overseeing and assisting with the planning, design, and construction of assigned projects. This shall include, but may not be limited to the following: • Act as St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation’s primary point of contact throughout the project and manage project development. • Interface with County Procedures. • Understand and navigate government procurement requirements as well as legislative, policy, and regulatory issues. • Coordinate and produce required documentation and reporting for granting authorities. • Advocate for the St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation’s interest of quality, timely, and cost-sensitive design and construction while maintaining professional relationships with contractors. • Oversee the Improvements to the projects at the best and lowest cost and highest degree of functionality and quality. • Generate budgets to assist the St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation with annual budgeting and decision-making efforts. • Develop or evaluate schedules, phasing plans, site logistical plans, and operational impact plans, as appropriate and necessary. • Review technical, architectural and engineering documents, provide guidance and value engineering recommendations, and code compliance verification. • Represent the St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation’s interest in communications with outside contractors, subcontractors, and vendors, as appropriate. • Manage third-party architectural and engineering contracts entered into by County, meeting with financial, legal, and design professionals, and providing input into their work product; review and assist with responses to questions from bidders during active solicitations. • Work with consultants and St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation staff to prepare documents for St. Louis County’s Procurement office. • Oversee construction of improvements, including construction quality control monitoring, testing, and inspections. • Provide and monitor overall progress of construction. • Provide and document digital photo logs of the construction progress. • Coordinate activities of contractors, subcontractors, and relevant agencies. • Resolve disputes and issues related to the assigned projects as they arise. • Provide project coordination and management of design consultants and contractors. • Maintain or review design and construction schedules and identify any changes to the critical path. • Organize and document progress meetings. • Review requests for changes and negotiate change order, with final terms and prices subject to approval by the St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation. • Review, negotiate, and approve consultant and contractor pay applications. • Issue monthly progress reports to the St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation and advise St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation of situations relating to cost or timing of the construction or disputes that have or may result in the installation of work or materials that are not in accordance with the plans and specifications for the construction. • Review outside agencies requests for use of St. Louis County property and perform permit issuance and oversight on behalf of St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation. • Coordinate and manage any required owner-supplied services including, but not limited to geotechnical assessments, third-party material testing, building commissioning, systems testing and balancing. • Manage project close-out, preparation of final as-builts, submittals and Requests for Information (RFI’s), processing and logging, lead permitting efforts. • Maintain web-based Project Management software that allows access by County and Contractors alike.
