Assistant Preconstruction Manager - Mission Critical

About the role

At Shawmut Design and Construction, we take pride in the culture we’ve built as a 100% employee-owned company—one that’s been recognized with more than 100 Best Place to Work awards. We’ve been honored as a National Fortune Best Workplace, a Fortune Best Workplace for Women, Millennials, and Parents, and one of America’s Best Employers by Forbes—along with numerous regional recognitions across our 15 offices nationwide.

Responsibilities

• Build the Foundation for Complex Data Center Projects: manage assigned trade packages across multiple pursuits, partner with Preconstruction and Operations leaders, contribute to budgets, scopes, bid strategies, and client deliverables that set each project up for success.
• Manage Trade Packages and Bidding: manage assigned trade packages across multiple concurrent projects, typically overseeing five to seven active scopes at a time; lead subcontractor outreach, invitation management, bid follow-up, and competitive participation tracking; develop clear scopes of work and bid instructions so subcontractors price work consistently; review subcontractor proposals and level bids to identify clarifications, exclusions, gaps, and potential risk; prepare bid comparisons and recommendations for review by project leadership; build strong, productive relationships with subcontractor partners.
• Support Estimates and Procurement: support conceptual budgets, milestone estimates, and guaranteed maximum price proposals; perform quantity takeoffs and validate estimates to support budget development and subcontractor bid verification; identify value engineering opportunities, cost-saving alternatives, procurement risks, and key cost drivers within assigned scopes; support procurement schedules, package strategies, and buyout recommendations; complete detailed variance reporting and provide practical value engineering recommendations.
• Partner Across the Project Lifecycle: contribute technical input and cost data to client presentations, estimate reviews, and proposals; partner with Preconstruction and Operations to keep project information accurate, organized, and ready for decisions; organize estimate backup, scope summaries, and trade package documentation for project