Preconstruction Manager

Gallant•Houston, TX

12d•Onsite

About The Position

The Preconstruction Manager reports directly to the Vice President and is responsible for leading and managing all preconstruction aspects of assigned projects to include construction estimating, cost management, vendor contacts, design quality control, proposal writing, and budgeting. The role involves working closely with the project teams in exceeding client expectations while maintaining schedules, budgets, and quality standards. The Preconstruction Manager is expected to develop and maintain a visible and positive leadership role with customers, vendors and within the Operations group by thinking beyond day-to-day preconstruction realities and nurturing the customer relationship for future growth. This position ensures proper stewardship for the overall preconstruction integrity of the project through interaction and collaboration with other company disciplines to establish best practice processes.

Requirements

Become proficient in the use of the following software systems: Timberline Estimating Software, On-Screen Take-off, SmartBid.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with the internal team, and external consultants, in the promotion and elevation of the company brand and reputation.
Generate proposal information, and participate in customer presentations, on an as-requested basis.
Serve as a resource to Operations, offering constructability and cost containment advice provide input as necessary to maintain project budget goals.
Participate in design quality control reviews for your assigned projects.
Develop varying levels of budgets for assigned projects: Order-of-magnitude budgets, Conceptual budgets, Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) budgets, Progress check-in budgets during Construction Document development.
Visit project sites, as required, at the front-end of the pre-construction phase to garner information regarding the project site, qualified local vendor contacts, applicable unit rates, union requirements, AHJ requirements, etc.
Collaborate with the project team to develop a project-specific strategy that will provide the best opportunity for successful contract award.
Generate a vendor bidding list for each GMP budget, including qualified vendors that are local and/or regional to the each project location, such that we are able to garner a minimum of 3 vendor bids for each scope-of-work.
Collaborate with the design team during the vendor bidding phase to respond to RFI’s, as well as organize RFI responses into Addendums.
Complete quantity take-offs as necessary to identify quantities of materials and/or building assemblies for each project.
Collaborate with Project Directors/Managers in the development of project-specific vendor scopes-of-work.
Receive, organize and qualify vendor proposals for assigned projects.
Lead the vendor Pre-qualification Process for your assigned projects, with assistance from Project Management.
Generate presentation-grade Bid-Tab spreadsheets for use in Owner presentation, if necessary.
Collaborate with the project team regarding Value Engineering efforts required to achieve project budget goals.
Collaborate with Project Management and Accounting to develop project-specific budget input breakdowns that are conducive to capturing quality historical data.
Verify the level of customer satisfaction of our operations group as judged by our customers.
Upon closeout of assigned projects, identify and input ‘actual’ cost data for definable-features-of-work in a historical cost data tracking system.
Collaborate with Operations team members regarding the following: Bid Solicitation Software maintenance, Historical Data System maintenance, On-Screen Takeoff maintenance, Timberline System maintenance, Annual unit price updates, Company cost code updates.