Senior Pre-Construction Manager

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The role of the Sr. Pre-Construction Manager is to orchestrate project team members & relevant external project parties to successful complete their assigned projects. This leadership requires a high emphasis on Client engagement, conceptual understanding, customer satisfaction, quality, communication, organization, and pre-pl. The outline of responsibilities below may vary from project to project and expand as part of employee growth. This individual will be required to oversee multiple projects within the same time frame contingent upon size and complexity of project(s).

Furthermore, size or complexity of project may require this individual to work with and manage Estimators within the preconstruction department. This is not intended to be an all-encompassing document and may not include everything that is required of this position based on the needs of TEAM Construction.

• Teamwork
• Computer Literacy
• Organization & Efficiency
• Excellent Customer Service Skills

• Review of all RFP documents and information to formulate overall estimate strategy.
• Set-up and professionally maintain estimate files throughout duration of estimate.
• Advise upper management on strategic "go" or "no-go" decisions.
• Understanding of the potential risks of general contracting and implements controls to identify risks at the pre-construction level and make recommendations to the Pre-Construction Design Team to mitigate potential risks.
• Ability to identify potential pitfalls and "grey areas" within a project to minimize company risk.
• General review of draft contract and general condition terms to advise upper management / company principals.
• Ability to discuss constructability and site logistics issues with the appropriate TEAM Construction members or Trade Partner Professionals to accurately convey information in the Pre-Construction Process.
• Ability to consistently meet client schedule task deadlines.
• Effectively communicate estimate, schedule, logistics and estimate assumptions to client in meetings and in formal written narratives.
• Leadership role on multiple Pre-Construction / Estimates projects with the ability to work within multiple Pre-Construction delivery models.
• Update & maintain current historical costs database for efficient use by multiple users.
• Effective and professional oral and written communication skills.
• Establish, maintain, adjust company estimating standards and templates.
• Lead/participate in estimate peer review prior to submittal.

• Review of RFP documents and information to formulate overall estimate strategy and delivery milestones.
• Effective and professional company representation at site visits with ability to obtain and retain critical info regarding logistics, existing conditions, and critical trades.
• Analyze competition for company advantages and disadvantages.
• Assign and delegate estimate responsibilities to co-workers based on availability and experience.
• Ability to schedule all activities of a construction project in company scheduling software.
• Ability to schedule all front-end project activities including but not limited to permitting, procurement, and design development activities in company scheduling software.
• Ability to identify areas of deficient design in construction documents and make recommendations to project design team to rectify deficiencies through the RFI process.
• Management and disbursement of Addenda, Revisions, ASI, SK’s and RFI’s to participating Trade Partners to ensure Trade Partner Bid Proposal is complete and accurately portrays the contract documents.
• Creation of Trade Partner Scope Outlines / Bid Forms to accurately convey project scopes to Trade Partners.
• Analysis of material procurement lead times for effective project planning and guidance to client.
• Concisely convey project information to project management team during hand-off meeting upon project award.
• Analyze & Level competitive Trade Partner bid proposals. Evaluate and synthesize, from a wholistic project perspective, the trade partners bid proposals to identify and avoid scope gaps and scope overlap.