Senior Preconstruction Manager - Water​/Wastewater

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In this role, you will be responsible for all preconstruction activities on large volume water projects, including developing preliminary budgets, value engineering, preconstruction schedules, procurement plan, prequalification of subcontractors, detailed take-off and estimating, definition of bid package scopes, the subcontractor/supplier bidding process, evaluation of bids, presentation of detailed estimates of the work, evaluation of alternatives and comparative studies.

• General Management:
  • Lead preconstruction efforts across multiple projects or large, complex pursuits.
  • When leading large complex projects, perform all core responsibilities of the Preconstruction Manager role but at a higher level.
  • Manage and Mentor Precon Managers and Preconstruction Specialists.
  • Support forecasting, staffing, and resource planning.
  • Manage performance reviews for direct and indirect reports and support career path planning.
  • Drive continuous improvement in preconstruction processes and tools.
  • Coordinate with preconstruction professionals from other project delivery groups to ensure consistency in systems, methods, processes, and standards. Receive and share best practices across groups.
• Pre-Estimate:
  • Collaborate with design teams to influence cost, scope, and schedule outcomes.
  • Lead constructability reviews and value engineering processes.
  • Lead Target Value Design process.
  • Participate in or lead Estimate Plan meeting. Develops Estimate Plan with proposal leader and ensures proposal team is clear on strategy and expectations.
  • Responsible for team executing on that strategy.
  • Identifies resource needs and coordinates with discipline chiefs and Director of Precon as needed.
  • Leads team kick-off meeting and assigns action items.
• Estimate Development:
  • Ensure consistency in estimating approach, tools, and deliverables.
  • When in the pricing lead role, leads a team of estimators assigned to a proposal.
  • Ensures the Pricing Lead has the necessary team, tools, information, and resources to accomplish the goals of the estimate plan.
  • Engages in specific RFIs if the Pricing Lead requires support.
  • Ability to identify risk issues and their order of magnitude.
  • Ability to create conceptual estimates.
  • Conducts final review of clarifications document.
  • Ensures estimate is compliant with RFP documents.
  • Conducts precon-only estimate reviews prior to ops reviews.
  • Participates in ops estimate review meetings.
  • Assesses Value Engineering options on a basis of cost, schedule, and constructability.
  • Provides recommendations on the best solution.
• Subcontractor Management:
  • Builds and maintains key subcontractor relationships.
  • Ensures teams develop an overarching subcontractor outreach strategy that aligns with pursuit win strategy.
  • Ensures the subcontract market has a positive experience with Haskell during the preconstruction phase. Identifies and communicates opportunities for improvement if necessary.
  • Identifies subcontractors who have a competitive advantage and develops key relationships to employ those advantages. Ensures the selected subcontractor is a corporately responsible selection.
  • Ensures use of standard procurement procedures and forms.
• Post Estimate:
  • Ensures that the budget submitted to accounting complies with corporate cost coding standards.
  • Responsible for compiling lessons learned for the precon phase, if applicable.
  • Participates in lessons learned meeting at project close. Understands budget underruns and overruns, and communicates those lessons learned to the precon department.
  • Ensures successful handoff from preconstruction to project team.
  • May assist with Project Management team with buyout.
  • May assist the Project Management team with change orders.
• Database Maintenance:
  • Responsible for development and ensures maintenance of preferred subcontractor database.
  • Responsible for development and ensures maintenance of bid forms and bid packages database.
  • Responsible for development and ensures maintenance of cost history database.
  • Assists with the maintenance of the estimating database.
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