Pre-Construction Manager, Buildings | General Contractor

National general contractor who offers full-service construction for buildings projects is experiencing growth and seeking a Pre-Construction Manager to join their team in Vancouver, BC, Toronto, ON and Edmonton, AB. Salary range is $150,000 - $180,000. Outpost Recruitment is excited to work with our client on this full-time permanent role.

General Pre-construction Management & Staff Leadership:

• Provide strong leadership to the estimators’ team, and monitor their performance on a continuous basis (provide positive feedback when performance is good, and provide corrective feedback if performance is lacking)
• Communicate clearly, concisely, and efficiently with own forces, clients, consultants, regulatory agencies, and other contractors
• Produce written correspondence and reports, and present at the meetings
• Establish contract milestones and objectives, and communicate contract documents to all parties allowing them to discuss potential issues
• Plan, schedule, and present at internal and external meetings (including proposal, budget, and construction methodology meetings)
• Respond to design/build and construction requests: interpret and respond to clients’ inquiries in a timely fashion
• Actively participate and lead (where required) in the design/build team meetings
• Review and understand contract documents (knowledge of standard forms of contracts, principles of the contract law, and different types of construction contracts is required)
• The Pre-Construction Manager will ensure a list of acceptable suppliers, carriers, and rental companies is maintained, and contribute to and maintain a historical database of information from jobs and/or estimates completed
• Keep abreast of technological changes in the industry
• Ensure material data is readily available and updated
• Work collaboratively in the Pre-construction and Operations teams: keep an open line of communication with team members
• Explore cost savings, constructability, design, production duration, and options with the team
• Spearhead utilization of BIM within and where conducive on upcoming projects
• Ensure that relevant project information is input to database and provide a staffing matrix for staff planning purposes
• Ensure that project objectives and important details are communicated to the project team members early
• Look for opportunities to maximize on-the-job training for anybody on the Pre-construction
• Team, and provide estimators with an opportunity to attend meetings when appropriate
• Work cooperatively with the rest of the pre-construction team to coordinate workload, monitor the team’s abilities and motivation, and coordinate times off

• Collect relevant information on prospective construction work and determine, in consultation with senior management, which jobs to tender (ability to estimate the value of the project by unit cost or elemental cost analysis)
• Compile a checklist of all trade divisions (knowledge of scopes of work and rules of procedure)
• The Pre-Construction Manager will maintain a record of receipt and distribution of all proposal documents (drawings, specifications, contractors’ quotations)
• Study and understand plans, specifications, addenda, and all construction conditions set by owner/architect, and detect early determination of any discrepancies, ambiguities, and omissions in contract documents
• Study and understand drawings early in the job and know the performance requirements (accelerated schedule, etc.), environmental conditions of the contract, and understand the liability of errors or omissions to note such to the management and clients
• Conduct pre-consultation site inspection in conjunction with operations
• Brief senior management on market position: competition, advantages, and disadvantages of the project, price changes, etc.

• Take ownership of preparation, completion, and presentation of a proposal
• Prepare a comprehensive tender/proposal submission and present it to management and the Client
• Review and finalize bid submissions in consultation with the management team and know the strategy to submit the proposal and address any further questions or requests