Our Preconstruction Manager will represent the GC, managing the Preconstruction process for our clients, including producing iterative budgets, coordinating project teams internally ad externally, providing guidance to owners and design teams during design development, value engineering projects to meet client budgets, coordinating work with our operations personnel, and lead a group of estimators through the bid process.
The Preconstruction Manager fulfills the role of a working manager. Though leadership is a differentiating factor of the position, the PM is expected to perform takeoffs, write scopes, bid packages, and properly qualify scopes of work. Estimating staff will be provided as needed to fulfill responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Produce budgets for various projects. This includes quantity takeoffs, obtaining subcontractor input, using applicable historical pricing information, properly qualifying the proposal, and presenting the budget to our client.
- Prepare conceptual and detailed budgets from all levels of documents ranging from napkin sketches, schematic design, design development, and a bid set of documents.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously in different stages of development.
- Lead teams of estimators during the bid process, ensuring proper coverage of the scope of work and taking responsibility for bid dates, compiling bid information on bid day, properly qualifying the project, and compiling the proposal for the client.
- Lead the bid team in making sure that the appropriate trades and more importantly the appropriate Subcontractors within those trades are being targeted for pricing to ensure proper bid coverage is obtained.
- Review the bid set of documents and identify critical components of the Project that need focus from the bid team as well as operations to make sure proper planning is performed during the bid. This includes meeting with operations and discussing phasing, logistics, and overall construction sequence for the Project.
- Maintain contacts in the industry and keep apprised of market conditions that may affect our product offerings, including pricing and scheduling factors.
- Report to the VP level directly within the department.
- Lead the buyout process once a project is awarded.
- Review Subcontract scopes of work prepared by the bid team to make sure the scopes are complete and there are no gaps between trades during the buyout process.