Preconstruction Director

The Weitz Company is looking for an experienced Preconstruction Director to join our team in Des Moines, Iowa.

The Preconstruction Director is responsible for ensuring outstanding customer service is delivered through our preconstruction services on all of our projects. They provide leadership and direction to the entire preconstruction department by providing oversight on all preconstruction efforts on all projects and providing strategic direction for the future. They are charged with making assignments and developing staff to meet the needs of the business.

They also work closely and coordinate with Business Development in procuring work. The Preconstruction Director is responsible for meeting all preconstruction needs of the General Manager for the Business Unit that they are assigned to. The Preconstruction Director reports to the Vice President of Preconstruction and Estimating.

The Weitz Company has been Building a Better Way since 1855. We are a full-service construction company, general contractor, design-builder, and construction manager with office locations throughout the United States. We believe our employees to be our most valuable asset, and we are committed to growing a diverse and inclusive culture that inspires, motivates, and continuously improves.

• Meet with operations staff to identify safety concerns.
• Communicate safety requirements to potential subcontractors.
• When estimating, continually ask, "How are we going to do this safely?"
• Verify there is adequate budget for required safety equipment.
• Verify subcontractors are able to meet prequalification requirements before using their number.

• Respects the efforts required to develop, nurture, and maintain relationships.
• Support Business Development in the RFP process by developing schedules, GCs, scope of work, etc.
• Assist with interview preparation.
• Provide superior service to each owner so as to cultivate positive relationships and repeat business.
• Provide superior service to the design team in order to retain a recommendation for future projects.
• Develop and present sales materials on our preconstruction services in a competent manner.
• Experienced in formal sales presentations, having taken the lead in the closing of successful projects.
• Consistently supports Business Development personnel with information necessary to positively influence and strengthen the relationship with potential new clients.
• Develops captured data from projects that can be used to prove the value of preconstruction services and continually reinforces the value of our preconstruction services to our clients.
• Ensure all staff confidently presents information to others both internally and externally.

• Conduct all business in alignment with the company's core values.
• Manage the preconstruction process efficiently with a keen awareness and understanding of the needs of the clients as well as the goals of the company and the timely completion of the preconstruction process.
• Provide credible cost comparisons on different building systems.
• Understand local market logistics, subcontractor/supplier market, and how each impacts total work volume and project costs.
• Coordinate the participation of all required staff (accounting, legal, marketing, operations, estimating, field operations, etc.) in order to assure timely and accurate contribution to the process.
• Understand BIM, LEED, LEAN and how they can be used to service the customers.
• Has established Key Account relationships through superior customer service and the project results.
• Attends occasional owners meetings on projects assigned to other Preconstruction Managers to ensure consistency of customer service.

• Provide the most professional and appropriate estimating and documentation techniques relative to the owner's needs, team's expectations, acceptable risk, and time constraints throughout the preconstruction period.
• Document and communicate with the team, the progress during the preconstruction phase, especially at the formal conclusion of schematic, design development, and construction document phases.
• Monitor design documents for compliance with scope and value analysis incorporation.
• Analyze, assist, and provide suggestions for appropriate contract language that protects the company.
• Exhibit a professional understanding of cost, market impacts, governing authority, constructability, scheduling, design, and value.
• Review and provide reliable and timely feedback on all estimates, schedules, and other necessary documents throughout the design phase of assigned projects.
• Demonstrate consistent and creative evaluation of plans and specifications for best value and compliance with the project goals.
• Identify and assist with the development of strategies and correspondence required for successful fast-tracking opportunities.
• Comfortably speak with authority on a variety of building systems.
• Take the lead role in preconstruction team meetings when…