Director, Pre-Construction & Development

The Director of Pre-Construction and Development will lead the department in estimating, budgeting, scheduling, procurement planning, and client collaboration to ensure projects are accurately scoped, competitively priced, and strategically positioned for successful execution. This role will be accountable for developing and maintaining a historical database to better provide cost and schedule estimates for future projects. This Director will have responsibility for establishing relationships with business leaders across the organization, understanding key business drivers and partnering with other stakeholders and development professionals to formulate financial and operational needs analysis in both short- and long-term construction-based plans.

• Project Development:
  Responsible for delivering strategic documents on project feasibility, scope, schedule, and budget for executive leadership approval. Partners with Business, Operations, and Department teams, lead the development of scoping documents that clearly define goals, client needs, expectations, and restrictions to ensure successful project execution. When needed, perform value engineering to meet budgetary requirements set forth by leadership. Serves as primary liaison to stakeholders for project development, building strong relationships with leaders across the organization.
  
  Communicates with executive leadership teams of construction activities, results and developments that could have an impact on objectives and activities of other departments.
• Cost and Schedule Database:
  Generates enterprise-specific cost and schedule databases, leveraging historical project information, and that integrates with department processes and templates. Creates schedule templates for portfolio scheduling, assisting project teams maintain actual durations through project life cycle. Responsible for analyzing trends by extracting cost and schedule data to create reports and dashboards with the intent of providing better information for future projects. Monitors regional pricing analysis information and update the cost database, as necessary.
• Manage Pre-Development
  
  Activities:
  
  Directs day-to-day pre-development activities during conceptual phases of projects. Lead teams, both internal and external, of consultants, design professionals, project managers or contractor preconstruction support services. Leads project strategy discussions by evaluating potential project risks and opportunities. When required, engage with authorities having jurisdictions to determine potential constraints and solutions.
• Vendor and Procurement Management:
  Evaluates and strengthens pool of vendors to use on various types of projects. Identify, interview, vet, and onboard qualified vendors and contractors in advance to project bid phase. Engages with new vendors prior to award, to ensure understanding of contract requirements, policies and procedures. Actively reviews vendor lists, and with feedback from the team, determine if new vendors are needed in specific scopes of work.
• Templates, Tools and Standardization:
  Develops and maintains preconstruction document templates including but not limited to RFPs, scoping documents, schedules, estimating tools, etc. Established a standardized process with other departments to obtain budgetary costs for their work. Trains and guides project management teams in the cost database and other established estimating tools. Develops project standards, practices, and procedures and consistently enforce accountability with team.
• Performs other duties as assigned to support the efficient operation of the department.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management, Engineering,…