Associate, Construction Delay

About the Firm

Secretariat is a consulting firm that helps companies, law firms, and organizations solve complex business problems, often when there is a dispute, investigation, major project challenge, or high-stakes decision involved. At Secretariat, you’ll work on some of the most important legal, risk, and regulatory challenges facing businesses around the world. You’ll be part of a fast-growing team of smart, curious, and driven people who enjoy solving complex problems. You’ll learn by working alongside experienced professionals and contributing to projects for leading law firms, global companies, and major institutions. Teams collaborate across offices and disciplines, bringing energy, fresh thinking, and commitment to every client challenge.

About Our Construction Delay Team

Our Construction Delay team helps uncover the story behind project schedule disruptions. We analyze project timelines, records, data, drawings, and documents to understand what caused delays and how they affected the project. As part of the team, you will work alongside experts in engineering, construction management, architecture, scheduling, and accounting on high-profile buildings, infrastructure, power and utilities, and oil and gas projects. This is an opportunity to sharpen problem-solving skills, work with project data, learn consulting, and see how analysis helps clients make sense of complex situations.

Key Responsibilities

• Get hands-on experience learning how major construction project schedules are built, updated, and analyzed to uncover what caused delays.
• Work with scheduling tools such as Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project to explore project timelines and understand how work actually progressed.
• Dig into construction schedules, drawings, progress reports, emails, and project records to piece together key facts and identify what really happened.
• Analyze large sets of project data to spot trends, patterns, and details that help explain why a project finished early, late, or differently than planned.
• Help turn research and analysis into clear expert reports, presentations, and client deliverables that support real-world decisions.
• Build core skills that set strong consultants apart.
• Sharpen analytical thinking by tackling complex questions with data, documents, and project information.
• Strengthen attention to detail by finding small pieces of information that can make a big difference in an analysis.
• Practice explaining findings clearly and confidently to teammates, experts, and clients.
• Learn how to manage time across multiple priorities while contributing to fast-moving client deadlines.
• Grow as a communicator in a professional, team-oriented environment.

Qualifications & Tech Stack

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, building construction, architecture, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• Available to start between January 2027 and September 2027.
• Minimum GPA of 3.0.
• Prior experience with construction project management, scheduling, cost controls, internships, research, student projects, or similar hands-on work is helpful, but not required.
• Comfort using Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn new analytical and scheduling tools.
• Ability to travel as needed, generally under 15%.
• A collaborative mindset.
• Strong communication skills.
• An interest in working with supportive teams to solve complex problems.
• An organized, detail-oriented, and creative approach to problem-solving.
• Confidence to ask questions, share ideas, and keep learning.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for sponsorship in the future.