Job Description Who is DBI? Founded in 2002, the DBI team specializes in the evaluation of damaged structures. DBI’s construction experts provide independent recommendations and analysis to clients in the insurance and legal industries. In a complex industry, the company’s mission is to bring clarity to every client served by DBI through hard evidence, expertise, and accuracy. We are seeking a Director, Construction Consulting to lead our Los Angeles consulting teams, oversee complex projects, and elevate the quality of our deliverables. This is a strategic, high-impact role for a seasoned construction expert who thrives in both the field and the boardroom. Salary $145,000.00 - $195,000.00 annually, a competitive healthcare benefits package, plus eligible for two annual billable bonuses and a team bonus. What You’ll Do Lead and mentor a team of construction consultants on property damage evaluations. Oversee project scopes, budgets, schedules, and deliverables from start to finish. Provide expert analysis, estimates, and written reports that support high-value client decisions. Build strong relationships with clients, field staff, and third-party consultants. Resolve complex technical issues, identify risks, and ensure accurate, defensible findings. Drive consistency in estimating, workflow, documentation, and quality standards. Support company initiatives and continuously improve processes, tools, and team capabilities. Represent DBI with professionalism, integrity, and strong communication during site visits, client updates, and negotiations. What You Bring Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or related field. 10–15+ years of experience leading construction or building consulting projects. Strong estimating and project management expertise (Xactimate, Bluebeam, P6 or MS Project). Ability to lead teams, manage multiple priorities, and communicate findings clearly. Comfortable working in the field—including roofs, heights, tight spaces, and post-loss environments. Motivated, analytical, detail-oriented, and passionate about construction principles. Valid driver’s license and ability to travel ~30%. Why DBI Meaningful, technically challenging work that influences major insurance and legal outcomes. A culture grounded in clarity, integrity, and client connection. Opportunity to shape team standards, mentor experts, and impact business initiatives. Work that blends field expertise with high-level strategic thinking. WORKING CONDITIONS: Frequently requires work to be performed at the site of the property damage or loss, including locations where disasters or catastrophes have occurred; may require evening, overnight, and weekend travel and work; incumbent may be subject to outside weather and environmental conditions, including, but not limited to, extreme heat, cold, and precipitation; incumbent may be exposed to inside environmental conditions, including, but not limited to noise, vibrations, proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, heights, chemicals, fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation. The incumbent may be required to work in close quarters, crawl spaces, small enclosed rooms, narrow aisles, passageways, or other enclosed areas, requiring physical agility and resistance to claustrophobia. The incumbent may be required to work in high areas such as roofs or scaffolding, requiring physical agility, balance, and resistance to acrophobia. PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES AND REQUIREMENTS: In addition to the working conditions and associated physical activities and requirements above, the incumbent may be required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, finger, grasp, or feel, especially in the course of investigating and assessing property damage; these requirements may include the need to lift weights of up to 50 pounds, including a ladder. The work requires close visual acuity, with or without correction, to prepare reports containing words, symbols, and numerical figures; the incumbent is required to view a computer terminal, use a keyboard, read printed documents, make detailed visual inspections, perceive color, perceive depth, and have a sufficient field of vision to carry out all inspection and related duties. Willingness to travel on average of +/-30% of the workweek to accommodate meetings, as well as attend other work-related activities that may be scheduled outside of normal daytime business hours. DBI Consultants complexity simplified. We evaluate damaged structures. As construction experts, we provide independent recommendations and analyses for clients around the world in the insurance and legal industries. We have a national presence with offices from coast to coast and a robust set of specialized, in-house practices that range from scheduling and building envelope to mechanical, electrical, elevator, and landscaping. Hard evidence, expertise, and accuracy drive our work; communication and connection are our top priorities. Simply put, our work empowers our clients to move forward with confidence. In a complex industry, our mission is to bring clarity to every client we serve. Life-defining careers We have crafted a truly special company, one that is inclusive and that takes care of its people. Our unparalleled reputation means that our employees are immersed in remarkable assignments, whether evaluating tornado damage to an industrial plant in Idaho or traveling to Dubai to assess devastating fire damage to a world class high-rise. We are a community of team players who work extremely hard and crave challenges. At DBI, no two tasks are the same, pushing us each to work collaboratively and to our greatest potential. Our work is nothing short of exceptional.

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