Owner's Representative
Portland, OR
Full Time
Experienced
CDP Builders is the construction division of Community Development Partners, created to expand the organization’s capacity to deliver life-enhancing affordable housing. Founded in 2025, we build on CDP’s proven track record to construct high quality housing on the foundation of CDP’s vision, mission, and values. As an in-house team within the CDP ecosystem, we are passionately committed to the organization’s mission of creating life enhancing affordable housing that transcends the fundamental goal of providing high quality homes by building innovative and sustainable developments with a focus on long-term community engagement. As a mission-driven certified B Corp, we are unique in our field as a for-profit developer that leads with our impact goals. Since our inception in 2011, we have built, preserved or are actively developing over 55 unique affordable housing communities throughout Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado.
This is what we do and we are passionately committed to it, but equally as important is who we are as a team. We believe in forward progress, continuous collaboration, authentic connection, and mixing it all up with a healthy dose of fun. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we offer a full suite of benefits that includes highly subsidized insurance, retirement plan with matching contributions, a sabbatical program, cell phone reimbursement, PTO, and more.
As our new Owner's Representative, you'll oversee all third-party General Contractors (GCs), ensuring successful delivery of medium-density, multifamily housing developments across Oregon. We operate in a hybrid model, so when not out in the field you'll have a team of fantastic colleagues to work with out of our Portland, OR office.
Your role will include:
If the following describes you, we want to hear from you:
Minimum experience:
If the role and our team sounds interesting we'd love to hear from you!
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This is what we do and we are passionately committed to it, but equally as important is who we are as a team. We believe in forward progress, continuous collaboration, authentic connection, and mixing it all up with a healthy dose of fun. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we offer a full suite of benefits that includes highly subsidized insurance, retirement plan with matching contributions, a sabbatical program, cell phone reimbursement, PTO, and more.
As our new Owner's Representative, you'll oversee all third-party General Contractors (GCs), ensuring successful delivery of medium-density, multifamily housing developments across Oregon. We operate in a hybrid model, so when not out in the field you'll have a team of fantastic colleagues to work with out of our Portland, OR office.
Your role will include:
- Project Oversight and GC Management
- Act as the primary on-site representative of the developer/owner during construction.
- Manage third-party General Contractors from groundbreaking through final Completion.
- Monitor construction progress, quality, safety, and adherence to contract documents.
- Review and validate contractor pay applications, RFIs, submittals, and change orders.
- Preconstruction and Planning
- Participate in early design coordination, budgeting, constructability reviews, and scope definition.
- Support GC procurement and contract negotiation, including evaluation of GMPs and cost control strategies.
- Work with architects, consultants, and engineers to align project scope with LIHTC compliance and funding requirements.
- Stakeholder and Compliance Coordination
- Serve as a liaison between the development team, GCs, funding agencies, and consultants.
- Ensure construction activities align with LIHTC regulations, including cost certification, prevailing wage, Section 3, Davis-Bacon, and other funding requirements.
- Coordinate with Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS), local permitting agencies, and utility provider.
- Reporting and Documentation
- Attend and facilitate weekly OAC (Owner–Architect–Contractor) meetings.
- Provide regular written updates to the development team and ownership on schedule, budget, and risk.
- Ensure proper documentation is maintained for lender, investor, and auditor review.
- Project Close-Out and Turnover
- Oversee final inspections, punch lists, occupancy approvals, and warranty documentation.
- Coordinate turnover of units for lease-up in compliance with LIHTC lease-up timing and requirements.
- Other duties as assigned.
If the following describes you, we want to hear from you:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills (in English), allowing for clear and succinct communication in a variety of settings (phone, video, in-person, email), and with people of various backgrounds and levels, both internally and externally.
- Intermediate to advanced computer literacy, with a thorough understanding of Google Workspace and MS Office, as well as proficiency in project management and construction software (e.g. Autodesk Construction Cloud, Bluebeam, MS Project, or similar).
- Thorough understanding of building systems, sequencing, and construction means and methods across residential projects, and safety regulations (OSHA certification is a plus).
- Ability to successfully interface and build strong cross-functional relationships with all levels of internal team members and external strategic partners (agencies, legislators, elected officials, jurisdictions, other stakeholders and decision makers), finding common ground and solving problems for the good of all.
- Ability to foster open dialogue, effectively creating strong morale and spirit in project teams, while sharing wins and successes – you create a feeling of belonging in the team.
- Familiarity with construction schedules (CPM, Gantt), project phasing, and cost tracking, and working knowledge of subcontracts, scopes of work, change orders, and progress billing.
- Detail-oriented mindset to ensure compliance with plans, specs, and workmanship standards.
- Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, shop drawings, and contracts.
- Ability to negotiate with vendors and subcontractors on pricing, scope changes, and timelines.
- Familiarity with Oregon building codes, zoning, and permitting processes.
- Ability to walk stand and move around on large construction sites for extended periods of time, navigating uneven terrain, mud, gravel, or incomplete flooring.
- Ability to climb stairs, ladders, or scaffolding to access elevated areas (depending on the site).
Minimum experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Real Estate Development, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Minimum 7 years of experience in real estate construction management and/or development, with at least 5 of these years directly managing all phases of ground-up construction, including project start-up (permits, utility coordination, site logistics), inspections, quality control, project closeout and punch list resolution.
- Experience managing construction of multi-family buildings with at least 50 units.
- Demonstrated experience managing third-party GCs and coordinating with design teams and public agencies.
- Experience collaborating with Project Managers, reviewing scopes of work, contracts, RFIs, submittals, and change orders.
- Valid Driver’s licenses, transportation, and the ability to travel up to 20%.
- Project Management Professional certification - or related construction management certification – preferred.
If the role and our team sounds interesting we'd love to hear from you!
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