Director, Pre-Construction & Development

San Manuel Casinos • Highland, CA

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director of Pre-Construction and Development will lead the department in estimating, budgeting, scheduling, procurement planning, and client collaboration to ensure projects are accurately scoped, competitively priced, and strategically positioned for successful execution. This role will be accountable for developing and maintaining a historical database to better provide cost and schedule estimates for future projects. This Director will have responsibility for establishing relationships with business leaders across the organization, understanding key business drivers and partnering with other stakeholders and development professionals to formulate financial and operational needs analysis in both short- and long-term construction-based plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture or related field required.
• Minimum ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in Architecture, Engineering, Construction and/or Construction Management overseeing large, diverse construction developments.
• Minimum eight (8) years vendor management and/or supervisory experience required.
• Demonstrated experience leading pre-construction and/or project management of large-scale commercial, healthcare, retail, industrial, hospitality, municipal, tribal, or multi-site capital projects with a minimum value of $10 million dollars.
• Proficiency with reading blueprints, plans, specs, contracts, purchase orders, change orders, etc.
• Experience creating and maintaining cost databases, benchmarking systems, and forecasting tools
• Proven track record of partnering with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to develop and execute capital project strategies.
• Experience managing architects, engineers, contractors, consultants, and permitting authorities throughout project planning and development phases
• Effective at presenting information and responding to questions and/or concerns from management, staff, customers, public groups, regulatory agencies, and/or executive leadership.
• Must be knowledgeable about a wide variety of building systems, including shoring, foundation design, structural systems, exterior cladding, roofing, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, interior finishes, etc.
• Must be knowledgeable about construction techniques that can be used to obtain the desired aesthetic or functional building performance results.
• Organized and able to effectively manage multiple, diverse tasks and adhere to tight deadlines.
• Must be culturally competent and effective in a multi-cultural environment.
• Strong leadership and people management skills required with good motivational and collaboration emphasis; communicates change effectively, overcomes resistance, and builds commitment.
• Experience with organizational transformation, including the development and implementation of effective operating models in large-scale, complex organizations.
• Must be personable and professional, capable of using caution and discretion in communication.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, Project, Bluebeam (or similar), PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• Role requires operation or driving of Tribe-owned vehicles or driving patron vehicles. A valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record as determined by the insurance carrier is required.

Nice To Haves

• Related, relevant, and/or direct experience may be considered in lieu of minimum educational requirements indicated above.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for delivering strategic documents on project feasibility, scope, schedule, and budget for executive leadership approval.
• Partners with Business, Operations, and Department teams, lead the development of scoping documents that clearly define goals, client needs, expectations, and restrictions to ensure successful project execution.
• When needed, perform value engineering to meet budgetary requirements set forth by leadership.
• Serves as primary liaison to stakeholders for project development, building strong relationships with leaders across the organization.
• Communicates with executive leadership teams of construction activities, results and developments that could have an impact on objectives and activities of other departments.
• Generates enterprise-specific cost and schedule databases, leveraging historical project information, and that integrates with department processes and templates.
• Creates schedule templates for portfolio scheduling, assisting project teams maintain actual durations through project life cycle.
• Responsible for analyzing trends by extracting cost and schedule data to create reports and dashboards with the intent of providing better information for future projects.
• Monitors regional pricing analysis information and update the cost database, as necessary.
• Directs day-to-day pre-development activities during conceptual phases of projects.
• Lead teams, both internal and external, of consultants, design professionals, project managers or contractor preconstruction support services.
• Leads project strategy discussions by evaluating potential project risks and opportunities.
• When required, engage with authorities having jurisdictions to determine potential constraints and solutions.
• Evaluates and strengthens pool of vendors to use on various types of projects.
• Identify, interview, vet, and onboard qualified vendors and contractors in advance to project bid phase.
• Engages with new vendors prior to award, to ensure understanding of contract requirements, policies and procedures.
• Actively reviews vendor lists, and with feedback from the team, determine if new vendors are needed in specific scopes of work.
• Develops and maintains preconstruction document templates including but not limited to RFPs, scoping documents, schedules, estimating tools, etc.
• Established a standardized process with other departments to obtain budgetary costs for their work.
• Trains and guides project management teams in the cost database and other established estimating tools.
• Develops project standards, practices, and procedures and consistently enforce accountability with team.
• Performs other duties as assigned to support the efficient operation of the department.

Benefits

• As one of the largest private employers in the Inland Empire, San Manuel deeply cares about the future, growth and well-being of its employees. Join our team today!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director