Preconstruction Manager

Clark Pacific • West Sacramento, CA

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About The Position

The Preconstruction Manager has a strong understanding of the design build process and all estimating principles. Depending on the specifics of the project, the Preconstruction Manager may be the primary day-to-day contact of the Owner and the design team. On more complex pursuits, the Preconstruction Manager may support a Project Executive or the Preconstruction Director.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in CM, Engineering, or related major.
• 8 plus years of commercial construction and estimating experience.
• Excellent listening skills and strong communication skills.
• Creative and innovative approaches and solutions on a project-by-project basis.
• Ability to identify, adapt to, and resolve complex issues.
• Effective participation in team environment, with both external and internal teammates.
• Working knowledge of estimating technology and tools such as QTO, Estimating, and BIM related software.
• Demonstrates behaviors consistent with Clark Pacific core values

Responsibilities

• Handling the project from first estimate all the way through subcontracts being formalized.
• Ability to look beyond the information that has been given, to ask the right questions and work to provide a complete project cost evaluation.
• Must be a collaborative and passionate advocate for our customers, empowering and informing them throughout the project.
• Must be aggressive in providing innovative solutions to complex issues as they arise related to cost, lead-times, trade partners, and/or specified products or materials.
• Ability to make reliable predictions as it relates to cost and be comfortable estimating across all scopes of work.
• Must have experience preparing detailed conceptual cost estimates and conceptual cost studies from schematic or feasibility-level documentation.
• Ability to prepare detailed estimates and, as the design evolves, develop variance summaries between estimates and value engineering studies throughout.
• Ability to assemble a complete presentation-worthy estimate package that clearly communicates project cost.
• Must be able to collaborate with project team to establish the necessary.
• Must have knowledge and understanding of unit costs and the factors that affect construction cost.
• Ability to prepare detailed instructions to bidders, trade specific clarifications and comprehensive bid packages.
• Must have experience with the bidding process: soliciting bids, communicating with the bidders, evaluating subcontractor proposals, using bid tally sheets, etc.
• Make subcontractor award recommendations to customer/owner and the negotiation and finalization of subcontracts with trade partners.
• Must be prepared to participate and often lead the preparation and presentation of cost / budget information to the customer/owner.
• Must have experience being a member of the team involved in request for proposal responses (RFP’s) and the formal presentation for a project.
• Ability to engage and develop business with new and existing customers.
• Ability to lead the preparation and presentation of cost / budget information to the customer/owner.
• Ability to lead and facilitate value engineering sessions with the project team and design team.
• Is a key participant with leadership experience involved in request for proposal responses (RFP’s) and the formal presentation for a project.
• Must be familiar with reviewing construction contracts and can identify key insurance and damages clauses.
• Can lead, manage and motivate project teams during the preconstruction phase of a project.
• Builds and maintains relationships with internal Clark Pacific clients.
• Keeps current with latest estimating technology and techniques.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, paid weekly
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance, including Kaiser and VSP options
• Medical FSA
• Dependent Care FSA
• Employer-paid life insurance
• Voluntary ancillary benefits including Critical Illness, Accident Insurance, and Whole Life Insurance
• 401k matching: 100 percent of the first 3 percent, then 50 percent of the next 2 percent
• Benefits are subject to a waiting period.

What This Job Offers

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