Director of Preconstruction

Overview

Director of Preconstruction | Commercial Renovations & Interiors | Boca Raton, FL

$160,000 – $200,000 base salary range + bonuses and benefits

Blayze Group is partnering with a national commercial construction and services firm delivering renovation, reconstruction, and capital improvement projects across healthcare, senior living, hospitality, multifamily, office, and retail environments. The business focuses on interior and renovation work executed within active, occupied facilities, where scope clarity, pricing discipline, and operational coordination are critical to success.

To support continued growth, the firm is appointing a Director of Preconstruction to bring structure, consistency, and accountability to pre award decision making across its interiors and renovation portfolio.

This is a senior leadership hire supporting a business that operates exclusively on the general contracting side, delivering high volume renovation and interior construction projects for repeat commercial clients.

The position is based in Boca Raton and will play a central role in improving pursuit quality, pricing accuracy, and execution readiness before projects are awarded.

• Lead all pre award preconstruction activity across the business, establishing standards, consistency, and accountability
• Own estimating, budgeting, and pricing strategy from conceptual through final proposal
• Partner with executive leadership on pursuit strategy, go or no go decisions, and risk evaluation
• Define scope, assumptions, exclusions, and risk clearly for every pursuit
• Coordinate subcontractor bidding, coverage, and levelling for interiors and renovation trades
• Oversee constructability reviews and execution planning for work in occupied facilities
• Lead pre award buyout strategy and early procurement planning
• Serve as the point of accountability for preconstruction handoff into operations
• Establish standardized preconstruction processes, tools, and performance metrics
• Mentor and develop estimating and preconstruction personnel while working closely with operations leadership
• Commercial interior build outs and renovations
• Cap Ex and reconstruction work in active, occupied buildings
• Healthcare, senior living, hospitality, multifamily, office, and retail environments
• Fast turn scopes with evolving design and operational constraints
• Typical project values from $50K to $5M, with larger programmatic efforts

• Senior preconstruction leadership experience within a commercial general contractor
• Direct experience leading preconstruction for renovation and interior construction projects
• Hands on ownership of estimates, budgets, scopes, and subcontractor coordination
• Demonstrated experience working in occupied or operational facilities
• Credibility with both estimators and operations teams
• Experience building or formalizing preconstruction processes preferred
• Ability to operate effectively in organizations cautious about change

This is a rare opportunity to help shape and strengthen a growing preconstruction function within a business that understands the commercial impact of disciplined front-end planning. The company offers a strong pipeline of repeat client work, leadership support for process improvement, and the opportunity to influence how projects are pursued, priced, and delivered.