Grant Gochenauer

Grant leads clients through the full capital project lifecycle — from feasibility and budgeting through execution and closeout — ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and regulatory requirements. He has managed large‑scale greenfield developments, complex renovations, and multi‑site programs, creating value through robust cost management, contract negotiation, schedule oversight, and resource planning, as well as independent cost validation, contract compliance reviews, and risk management to identify and address issues before they impact project outcomes.

Grant designs and refines business controls that promote cost certainty, effective resource utilization, and reduced financial exposure. His approach to process standardization, cost management, productivity analysis, and change management delivers more predictable results in complex project environments, and he builds governance frameworks and cross‑functional teams that embed best‑in‑class controls into day‑to‑day operations, enabling clearer communication, better decision‑making, and sustainable performance improvements for executive stakeholders and project sponsors.

Grant collaborates closely with clients to diagnose needs at both the enterprise and project levels and to design practical solutions. His experience spans estimating and budgeting, contract negotiations, procurement, cost management, contract compliance, resource planning, productivity analysis, cost reporting, change management, and scheduling, supported by deep familiarity with construction documents, plans, and specifications.

Grant’s professional experience includes:

• Provides program and project management advisory services for energy and industrial, commercial properties, multi‑acre campus renovations, and greenfield developments, coordinating among client personnel, counsel, lenders, designers, and contractors to maintain alignment with project objectives and requirements.​
• Provides capital project advisory services on planned and active development projects across industry sectors, including contract evaluations, compliance assessments, specialty‑consultant oversight, on‑site progress monitoring, evaluation of loan advance requests, and executive reporting.​​
• Provides enterprise advisory services for construction and real estate development companies across the United States and Mexico, assessing standard operating procedures, identifying performance improvement opportunities, and implementing process definition and standardization, policy development, and market‑expansion strategies.​​
• Provides construction advisory services to trade contractors, working with project and leadership teams to identify risks, develop mitigation plans, and actively manage implementation to reduce financial exposure.​
• Performs independent review and analysis of scope changes, change orders, and associated cost and schedule impacts in support of active project management, insurance evaluations, and third‑party cost validation.​
• Managed profit and loss for a mid‑size natural gas utility contractor with responsibility for all administrative personnel and union workforce, directing construction operations, including project management, field supervision, accounting, office administration, equipment maintenance, safety, training, business development, estimating, contract negotiations, union relationships, risk management, project controls, and execution of work.​
• Led a consulting team providing advisory services on a capital improvement project for an international food manufacturing company in Monterrey, developing governance procedures and overseeing design coordination, procurement oversight, scheduling, cost reporting, and change management, while facilitating design workshops, coordination meetings, and steering‑committee updates.​
• Performed internal audits of construction projects to monitor contract compliance and earnings projections, including review of contracts, insurance, and accounting documents; financial analysis of estimated cost, actual cost, and cost to complete; schedule analysis; risk assessment; and development of internal audit reports used to forecast corporate earnings.​
• Managed structural and high‑end finish trade contractors during the construction of a five‑diamond hotel in Southern California, overseeing compliance with plans and specifications, supervision of on‑site work, monitoring and approval of installed work, and change order review and coordination.​