General Manager of Preconstruction - Michels Power, Inc.

Location: Flexible
Employment Type: Full-Time
Travel: Up to 35% Travel Required

Successful infrastructure projects begin long before construction starts. Accurate estimating, sound execution strategies, risk evaluation, procurement planning, constructability assessments, and strong commercial alignment are critical to securing work and positioning projects for safe, profitable execution.

At Michels Power, Inc., we help utilities, developers, and energy providers build and maintain the infrastructure that powers communities across North America. From transmission and distribution systems to substations, renewable energy facilities, and battery energy storage systems, our teams deliver the critical infrastructure needed to strengthen and modernize the electric grid.

As one of the nation's leading power delivery contractors, Michels Power combines engineering expertise, construction excellence, and operational experience to deliver some of the industry's most complex electrical infrastructure projects safely and successfully.

As the General Manager
- Preconstruction
, you will provide strategic leadership for Michels Power's preconstruction organization, project pursuits, preconstruction planning, constructability reviews, procurement strategy, risk management, and project startup activities across the company's power delivery portfolio.

You will lead a team of preconstruction professionals and technical specialists while partnering closely with operations, estimators, engineering, procurement, project controls, business development, and executive leadership teams. This role is responsible for establishing preconstruction standards, driving consistency across project pursuits, managing organizational resources, and helping secure and successfully launch major power delivery projects.

Success requires strong leadership capabilities, business acumen, technical knowledge of power delivery construction, and the ability to align preconstruction strategies with the company's operational and financial objectives.

• Provide leadership and strategic direction for all preconstruction and project pursuit activities across Michels Power.
• Develop and implement preconstruction standards, processes, best practices, and organizational initiatives that improve consistency, quality, and operational readiness.
• Oversee constructability reviews, execution planning, risk assessments, and proposal development activities.
• Lead bid review processes and pursuit strategies while ensuring alignment between commercial objectives and operational execution plans.
• Manage staffing, workload balancing, resource planning, training, and development activities within the preconstruction organization.
• Partner with executive leadership to support strategic growth initiatives, market expansion opportunities, and key customer relationships.

• Provide executive oversight for preconstruction activities supporting transmission, distribution, substation, renewable energy, battery energy storage, and EPC power delivery projects.
• Lead major project pursuits from opportunity evaluation through award, contract execution, and operational handoff.
• Guide teams in developing conceptual budgets, pricing strategies, and risk-adjusted project evaluations.
• Collaborate with operations leaders to validate execution strategies, labor assumptions, procurement approaches, and schedule requirements.
• Support customer engagement activities, executive presentations, project interviews, and proposal review efforts.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on forecasting performance, organizational efficiency, and project startup success.
• Monitor market conditions, labor trends, material pricing, subcontractor capacity, and industry developments affecting project pursuits.
• Develop future leaders within the preconstruction organization through coaching, mentorship, and professional development initiatives.

• Engineering News-Record ranks us as the No. 1 Electrical Transmission & Distribution Contractor
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• Our steady, strategic growth revolves around a commitment to quality.
• We are family owned and operated.
• We invest an average of $5,000 per employee per year in training and career development.
• We perform challenging, meaningful work that helps build and strengthen the nation's electric grid.
• We believe everyone is responsible for promoting safety,…