Preconstruction Manager

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Build trusting relationships with customers, team, subcontractors, suppliers, and user groups.
• Establish and maintain positive and effective relationships and communication with client, Construction Manager, project team, architects, engineers, consultants, subcontractors, adjacent community, trade unions, and governmental agencies.
• Lead project teams including internal personnel, clients, architects, engineers, and subcontractors through all preconstruction phases including validation, programming, design, and GMP negotiation.
• Facilitate client meetings to clearly communicate project updates, scope, schedule, assumptions, risks, and cost drivers.
• Present job cost, scheduling updates, and budget updates at regular intervals.
• Review all project documents for completeness and accuracy.
• Work collaboratively with the project team to ensure that project objectives and contractual requirements are met.
• Conduct constructability reviews at milestone design progression sets.
• Cookinate with project team on pull planning activities and development of design and construction CPM schedule.
• Coordinate with project team on site logistics planning with input from field team.
• Develop conceptual budgets and order-of-magnitude estimates using limited design information, narratives, or performance criteria.
• Ensure alignment between design and cost estimate throughout design progression.
• Critically analyze bid documents to understand risk and opportunities and articulate those to management and project teams.
• Develop Bid Packages and distribute bid documents and addenda.
• Draft scopes of work for various vendors and trade partners while paying specific attention to the drawings and specifications.
• Solicit material suppliers and subcontractors for bids, ensuring full scope coverage.
• Select the appropriate vendors and trade partners to ensure cost competitiveness, reliability, quality, and capability.
• Review vendor and trade partner estimates for accuracy and compliance with the construction documents.
• Complete detailed material take-offs.
• Collaborate with estimating department to understand and effectively communicate makeup of estimate and project plan.
• Support value engineering and life-cycle cost analysis to maximize value within budget constraints.
• Cookorate with trade partners and internal estimators to validate pricing assumptions and strategies.
• Aid preparation of GMP proposal packages to include scope narratives, clarifications and assumptions, exclusions, schedules, and other critical information.
• Ensure a smooth transition from pre-construction to the construction phase.
• Participate in project pursuit activities including pre-bid meetings, site tours, proposal development, and interviews as required.
• Mentor and develop team members while effectively managing the overall team.
• Attend company and industry events including meetings, trainings, workshops, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related field (Associate's Degree with equivalent experience considered)
• Commercial construction with Design-Build and GC/CM: 4 years (Required)
• 4+ years' experience in Preconstruction/Project Management or similar position
• 4+ years' experience in design-build and GCCM projects

Skills And Abilities

• Solid understanding of the construction industry, job site safety requirements, contract management, planning and scheduling, budgets, building products, and relevant technology.
• High level of fluency reading plans, specifications, and related project documents.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think strategically and creatively.
• Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with clients, design teams, and trade partners.

Key Competencies

• Leadership
• Initiative
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Managing for results
• Coaching & Mentoring

Technical Skills

• Procore
• On-Screen Take-off
• Primavera Cloud
• Building Connected
• Bluebeam
• MS Office Suite

Benefits

• 401(k) with matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retailer plan
• Vision insurance