Senior Preconstruction Manager

About the role

Every day, our team members do amazing things in pursuit of our shared purpose to build trust with our clients, partners, subcontractors, and teammates. No matter your background, education, or career path, if you share our vision to create extraordinary experiences, you belong at HITT. A Senior Preconstruction Manager is responsible for leading and managing multiple projects working with a team of preconstruction managers, and shared team resources to deliver exceptional deliverables to our clients.

Responsibilities

The Senior Preconstruction Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day execution to provide preconstruction services from initial program design phase until final construction documents are complete for assigned projects. This may include feasibility studies, budget estimates from conceptual design to final bidding, comparative studies, value engineering and presentation of the same to both internal and external clients.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture or related field, preferred
• At least (7) years of related commercial construction work experience
• Has been the lead preconstruction manager on several projects
• Has led others as team leader and has worked to develop and coach others

Direction, Supervision & Authority

This position typically reports to the Vice President of Preconstruction or Preconstruction Executive. This position directly supervises preconstruction managers, assistant managers and project engineers. Senior Preconstruction Managers will lead multiple project teams in all aspects of bid and budget deliverables and participate in the hiring and termination process.

Skills/Abilities

• Software proficiency: Microsoft Office Suite, with high level of proficiency using Excel, On Screen Take-off (OST), Adobe products, including Bluebeam
• Prepare and analyze pricing proposals to include current market and regional conditions, historical data, material escalation, internal estimate and subcontractor input
• Successfully manage the design and preconstruction phase with all stakeholders including owners, design team, consultants and HITT operations
• Presentation and interviews with clients, including strategic preparation
• Fully understand all building systems and opportunities to control or reduce costs
• Understand construction drawings and specifications and identify missing elements to provide complete proposals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understand geotechnical reports, Building Code and LEED Requirements

Qualities & Attributes

• Leadership - is a leader and knowledge holder of the projects
• Decision-making – facilitates the decision-making process
• Positive attitude & Passion – exhibits a can-do, positive attitude and passion for construction and our industry
• Self-motivated and proactive – takes initiative and seeks responsibility
• Integrity - behaves consistently with The HITT Way
• Self-development – seeks continuous improvement of knowledge and abilities
• Quality – has ability to recognize quality and implements HITT and contractual quality standards
• Flexibility – is flexible with the ever-changing world of technology, design, means and methods
• Teamwork and Collaboration – can work collaboratively with people of various backgrounds and styles
• Customer service-oriented and is committed to going above the “normal” call of duty
• Coaches, trains and educates preconstruction team members
• Client Relationships – able to sustain existing client relationships and develop new client relationships
• Time Management – understands and knows what tasks are more important than others and what needs to be solved immediately and what can wait
• Respectful – is punctual, engaged/focused, and respectful of others