Senior Manager Preconstruction & Estimating

Senior Manager, Estimating & Preconstruction

BLOX is revolutionizing the construction industry by integrating advanced manufacturing principles with innovative technology to deliver high-quality, modular building solutions. We are driven by a mission to rethink how buildings are designed, fabricated, and delivered, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and sustainability.

BLOX is seeking a Senior Manager, Estimating & Preconstruction to lead the end-to-end estimating and preconstruction function across one or more BLOX modular programs. This role owns the accuracy, integrity, and margin impact of BLOX's pricing; develops and maintains C-suite-level client and commercial partner relationships during pursuit and negotiation; and contributes meaningfully to BLOX's strategic pipeline decisions. The Senior Manager is accountable not just for delivering individual estimates, but for building the team, systems, and historical data infrastructure required to price accurately at scale.

Program Management is the central nervous system of BLOX, and estimating is the organ that translates design intent into accurate price and schedule commitment. Every pursuit BLOX commits to is shaped by the precision and credibility of its estimates — and every margin protected or lost at execution traces back to the basis of estimate produced in preconstruction. The Senior Manager, Estimating & Preconstruction owns that fountainhead: the historical cost database, the estimating processes, the client-facing pricing conversations, and the handoff of estimating intelligence to the Project Managers and program Managers who execute the work.

This role sets the standards, invests in the systems, and steps directly into pursuits when senior intervention is required — whether that's pricing a new building type, resolving a client pricing dispute, or taking direct control of an estimate in serious jeopardy.

Reports To: Director, Program or equivalent executive

Estimating & Preconstruction Leadership

• Own the accuracy, integrity, and margin impact of BLOX's preconstruction estimates across assigned programs — accountable for pricing outcomes, not oversight only.
• Design, build, and restructure the Estimating & Preconstruction team as needed to meet pursuit demand; evaluate team structure, right-sizing, and capability gaps across Estimators and Assistant Preconstruction staff.
• Lead and supervise direct reports:
  Assistant Preconstruction, Estimators, and Program / Project Management staff supporting preconstruction exercises.
• Refine and improve operational procedures across preconstruction workflows; establish standards for conceptual, schematic, design development, and GMP estimates.
• Develop and maintain BLOX's estimating systems and infrastructure: the preconstruction relational database (historical cost, schedule, bill of materials), pricing templates, Basis of Estimate standards, and communication/coordination tools. Direct investment in Technology and Finance support to keep the database accurate and current.
• Lead preconstruction pricing exercises end-to-end: subcontractor outreach (including Building Connected setup and coordination), RFP compilation, pricing documents, price leveling, and award recommendations.
• Develop program and project risk analyses; elevate risks clearly and proactively to BLOX Leadership.
• Lead both internal and Client-directed Value Engineering efforts.
• Develop initial DMC project schedules and construction schedules during the preconstruction phase; establish schedule assumptions that Program Management inherits at handoff.
• Track design scope through preconstruction; immediately elevate changes that affect budget or schedule, with clear impact, timeline, and recommended action.
• Lead the transfer of key estimating information to internal customers — Program and Project Management, Design, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Construction, and Finance — so that estimates live as operational truth after handoff.
• Take direct control of estimates or pursuits in serious jeopardy — pricing disputes, rapidly changing scope, significant client-side escalations — and return them to a defensible,…