Sr. Pre-Construction Manager T&D

MYR Group • Phoenix, AZ

72d

About The Position

Company Overview Since 1912, Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc. (Sturgeon Electric) - a subsidiary of MYR Group Inc. - has provided complex, large-scale electrical construction services for our clients throughout the western United States. As a full-service electrical provider, we offer industry leading electrical transmission, commercial and industrial, and renewable energy services. Sturgeon Electric has two divisions, offering both powerline construction and commercial/industrial electrical construction, making it a full-service electrical provider. Sturgeon Electric's Transmission and Distribution (T&D) construction division provides a full range of capabilities related to transmission, distribution, substation, and clean energy construction. The Sr Preconstruction Manager will lead conceptual estimating efforts to produce accurate electrical construction cost budgets and estimates, offer expertise and raise concerns and considerations to improve installation and performance of facility systems and support the Company's project planning goals and initiatives by applying expertise in estimating and cost management. The Sr Preconstruction Manager will be responsible for planning, coordinating and delivering multiple projects, developing innovative ways of applying preconstruction specialty services to address client needs and for proposing and for implementing ideas for continuous improvement of project planning services.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of conceptual estimating, cost engineering and modeling experience
• Minimum 4 years of recent conceptual estimating experience of projects $1.0 million and larger
• Actual experience in electrical project estimating
• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Electrical Engineering or similar discipline; combination of relevant education and experience considered in lieu of degree

Nice To Haves

• Solid knowledge of building systems
• Advanced work planning skills - ability to plan and prioritize individual and team contributions
• Advanced time management skills - ability to successfully balance multiple projects while providing on-demand services
• Strong communication skills
• Solid mathematical and analytical skill
• Ability to maintain a positive attitude and professional demeanor and perform well under project constraints and deadlines
• Excellent detail orientation skills - ability to successfully ensure accuracy of cost estimate data of own work, and when auditing and supervising work of others
• Experience leading estimating teams at various stages of design
• Ability to achieve excellent proficiency with McCormick Estimating System

Responsibilities

• Prepare cost models for early design concepts
• Derive meaningful cost data from historical cost data, relevant benchmarked projects and assumptions and project-specific factors
• Contribute to the development and implementation of technology systems including historical cost-tracking and benchmarking systems, estimating systems based on models and assemblies and the use of virtual design and construction (BM) in planning activities
• Plan, coordinate and deliver multiple projects
• Develop expertise and leadership in specialty project planning services: value analysis, life cycle costing, constructability analysis, alternatives analysis, LEED, regional market cost factoring, work scope definition and integration of construction scheduling factors into the cost of the work
• Understand requirements of project teams and participate in collaborative problem-solving
• Develop innovative ways of applying preconstruction specialty services to address client needs
• Ensure accuracy of cost estimate data both in care taken with own work and auditing and supervision work of others
• Propose and implement ideas for continuous improvement of project planning services
• Mentor others within the group and provide estimating and preconstruction services for project teams throughout the company
• Collaborate with internal and external project teams
• Regular and predictable attendance
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Salary Commensurate with experience, paid weekly
• Comprehensive benefits package - Medical, Dental, Vision, Teledoc, Hearing, Prescriptions, Mental Health, Employee Assistance Plan (EAP), Short Term Disability, Retiree Coverage, and Life Insurance under LINECo
• ThrivePass Health & Wellness Reimbursement Program - Twelve hundred dollars annually for health and wellbeing-related purchases
• Annual Paid Time Off starting at 15 days plus 10 paid Holidays
• Generous 401(k) Plan with 100% match up to 6%; immediate vesting, and Annual profit-sharing potential
• Superior educational assistance program (support for educational costs, internal training, and more)
• Company-paid short and long-term disability, life, and accidental death & dismemberment
• Company-paid business travel accident insurance
• Various voluntary plans available including supplemental vision, accident and critical illness, ID theft, group legal, group auto & home, and additional voluntary life insurance plans for employee and dependents

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree