Director, Estimating and Preconstruction

Description

Deploy's Clientis 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.

Deploy's Clientis seeking a Director, Estimating & Preconstruction to lead Deploy's Client entire estimating and preconstruction function across every platform category (Data Center, Healthcare, Retail, and emerging building types), together with the Associate Directors, Managers, and Estimators who staff it. This role owns the accuracy, integrity, and margin impact of every price Deploy's Client puts in front of a client; owns the historical cost database and the estimating standards the organization prices from;

holds final pricing review authority prior to executive sign-off; and presents pursuit, pricing, and margin performance to the Board and C-suite.

Program Management is the central nervous system of Deploy's Client, and estimating is the organ that translates design intent into accurate price and schedule commitment. Every pursuit Deploy's Client 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. Where an Associate Director owns pricing outcomes across the programs assigned to them, the Director, Estimating & Preconstruction owns the fountainhead itself at an organizational level: the cost intelligence Deploy's Client prices from, the standards that govern how it is used, the capability to price building types Deploy's Clienthas never built before, and the estimate-to-actual discipline that turns every completed project back into a better estimate.

This role sets what Deploy's Client is willing to price and on what terms, decides where estimating capacity and technology investment go, provides governance for escalated pricing disputes, and serves as Deploy's Client credible voice on modular cost and productivity inside the company and across the industry.

Own the accuracy, integrity, and margin impact of Deploy's Client's preconstruction estimates at an organizational level. Accountable for pricing outcomes across all platform categories,
not oversight only.

Hold final review and approval authority over pursuit pricing prior to executive sign-off; establish and enforce the estimate assumptions, risk registers, contingency, and escalation logic

Deploy's Client is willing to stand behind.

Own estimate-to-actual performance as a measured organizational outcome: lead post-project cost reviews, drive corrective action, and translate reconciled actuals into improved benchmarks, unit costs, and productivity factors.

Define, implement, and uphold organization-wide estimating standards (templates, workflows, Basis of Estimate requirements, and data practices) for conceptual, schematic, design development, and GMP estimates.

Own Deploy's Client'spreconstruction relational database (historical cost, schedule, and bill of materials) as an enterprise asset; direct Technology and Finance investment to keep it accurate, current, and reconciled to ERP cost actuals.

Lead capital and capacity planning inputs from the estimating function: manufacturing slot pricing and capacity assumptions, escalation strategy, labor market and supply chain exposure, and the estimating headcount and technology investment required to support forecast pursuit volume.

Stand up estimating and preconstruction capability for new building types and platform categories. Establish first-of-a-kind cost models, pricing structures, and schedule baselines where no historical data exists.

Design and evolve the organizational structure of the Estimating & Preconstruction function; make hiring, promotion, restructuring, and succession decisions across Associate Director, Manager, Estimator, and Assistant Preconstruction levels.

Lead, mentor, and develop Associate Directors and Managers within the function; accountable for their performance, retention, and professional development, and for building the estimating leadership bench Deploy's Client growth requires.

Set organizational standards for preconstruction pricing exercises end-to-end, covering subcontractor outreach and Building Connected administration, RFP compilation, pricing…