Estimating and Preconstruction Manager

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Build your career with Boldt. As a member of the Boldt team, you’ll collaborate with some of the most knowledgeable professionals in the construction industry. You’ll have the chance to learn new skills and seek greater responsibilities with a team that builds real value in the world around you. You’ll succeed in a workplace culture that recognizes, respects, and values differences.

Boldt’s focus on innovation, collaboration, and employee development provides an opportunity for all our employees to Build Boldly.

The Estimating & Preconstruction Manager will work to support the enterprise, including operating groups, project management, estimating, and support staff. This position will provide preconstruction and estimating leadership based on Lean principles that support a collaborative and integrated project delivery. Responsibilities include preparing, planning, prioritizing, and evaluating estimates, and being engaged in the Target Value Design process. This position will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing internal and external estimating resources.

• Lead and/or develop a project from the first estimate to subcontract formalization. Prepare bid documents for clients.
• Support all estimating and functions for projects including establishing reporting formats, assignment of areas of estimating responsibility, compiling estimates, preparation, and oversight.
• Present or participate in project estimates and budgets to project Owners and other partners.
• Prepare and send out bid documents and instructions to Bidders to procure and buyout projects and smooth transition. Turn-over to project leaders and ensure subcontractors are prequalified prior to bidding and contracting with Boldt.
• Review proposal specifications, drawings, attend pre-bid meetings, etc. to resolve scope of work and required contents of estimate.
• Own the bidding process including bid solicitation, bidders’ communications, proposals evaluations, bid tally sheet preparation and bid analysis.
• Own the review of all final estimate packages to ensure accuracy and completeness prior to formal quotation.
• Perform comparisons of scope, quantities, and cost data between projects.
• Prepare studies for proposed materials and method solutions, generate recommendations and cost estimates as required.
• Complete the design to budget approach in preconstruction. Work with design and project management teams to find alternative solutions to budget challenges, analyze maintenance costs and life cycle costs to achieve a valuable solution to the client.
• Assist project team in the continuous assessment of project risks how it relates to the overall project cost. Consolidate all risk and opportunities and integrate into the costs. This includes assisting project leaders in reviewing monthly trade partner cost reports and labor reports and identify variances from the original estimate.
• Assist in the development and implementation of estimating and cost modeling with designers, architects and engineers using a model-based process for projects that are designed from a model.
• Implement process improvements.
• Develop and maintain professional relationships and the highest ethical standards with clients, and other customers. Communicate with customers openly and honestly, while maintaining company’s confidential and proprietary information. Seeks input and feedback from both external and internal customers.
• Coach and mentor estimating and preconstruction staff.

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or Architecture degree required. An equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Eight to ten years of construction, structural engineering, architecture, and/or estimating experience or a combination of these experiences required.
• Thorough knowledge of estimating processes, material and building system costs, labor productivity evaluation techniques, and conceptual project construction requirements.
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