Preconstruction Manager

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients and design partners during the preconstruction phase.
• Lead project visioning, scope alignment, phasing strategies, and high-level scheduling.
• Facilitate internal and external team collaboration to keep preconstruction efforts on track.
• Coordinate with architects, engineers, and consultants to guide design toward budget and schedule objectives.
• Ensure design solutions reflect constructability, procurement strategies, and cost goals.
• Host design review meetings and track design progress relative to program needs.
• Collaborate with Estimators to understand and present milestone budgets and cost plans.
• Identify budget risks or scope gaps and drive the team toward reconciliation strategies.
• Lead value management discussions with design and ownership teams without performing takeoffs.
• Guide early trade partner involvement, procurement schedules, and packaging strategies.
• Cooky releases or preconstruction input from key subcontractors.
• Manage relationships with critical vendors and prequalify partners as needed.
• Lead development of high-level project schedules including preconstruction milestones, design deliverables, permitting, and early enabling work.
• Coordinate input from design, estimating, and operations teams.
• Represent the company in preconstruction meetings, presentations, and interviews.
• Communicate progress, constraints, and opportunities to clients and stakeholders in a proactive manner.
• Ensure client expectations are met through alignment of design, budget, and schedule.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of construction experience with at least 3 years in a preconstruction leadership or project management capacity.
• Prior experience working on complex commercial or institutional projects.
• Strong communicator and relationship builder with the ability to influence stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of project phasing, delivery methods (CMAR, GMP, Design-Build), and value management processes.
• Familiar with budgeting principles, construction means and methods, and permitting processes.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to lead teams through ambiguity.