Preconstruction Manager

• Pay or shift range: $110,000 USD to $135,000 USD
  The estimated range is the budgeted amount for this position. Final offers are based on various factors, including skill set, experience, location, qualifications and other job-related reasons.
• Travel Required :
  Yes

About Clark Pacific

At Clark Pacific, we are dedicated to building meaningful projects that improve communities and create lasting value. As a leading manufacturer of prefabricated building systems, we deliver innovative solutions through collaboration, engineering excellence, and a commitment to quality.

Our team partners with owners, developers, architects, contractors, and consultants to bring complex projects to life while maintaining the highest standards of safety, integrity, and performance.

Position Summary

The Preconstruction Manager has a strong understanding of the design build process and all estimating principles. Depending on the specifics of the project, the Preconstruction Manager may be the primary day-to-day contact of the Owner and the design team.

On more complex pursuits, the Preconstruction Manager may support a Project Executive or the Preconstruction Director.

Competitive Compensation Range: $110, annually, depending on experience.

* Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals to perform the essential functions of the position.

• Handling the project from first estimate all the way through subcontracts being formalized.
• Ability to look beyond the information that has been given, to ask the right questions and work to provide a complete project cost evaluation.
• Must be a collaborative and passionate advocate for our customers, empowering and informing them throughout the project.
• Must be aggressive in providing innovative solutions to complex issues as they arise related to cost, lead-times, trade partners, and/or specified products or materials.
• Ability to make reliable predictions as it relates to cost and be comfortable estimating across all scopes of work.
• Must have experience preparing detailed conceptual cost estimates and conceptual cost studies from schematic or feasibility-level documentation.
• Ability to prepare detailed estimates and, as the design evolves, develop variance summaries between estimates and value engineering studies throughout.
• Ability to assemble a complete presentation-worthy estimate package that clearly communicates project cost.
• Must be able to collaborate with project team to establish the necessary.
• Must have knowledge and understanding of unit costs and the factors that affect construction cost.
• Ability to prepare detailed instructions to bidders, trade specific clarifications and comprehensive bid packages.
• Must have experience with the bidding process: soliciting bids, communicating with the bidders, evaluating subcontractor proposals, using bid tally sheets, etc.
• Make subcontractor award recommendations to customer/owner and the negotiation and finalization of subcontracts with trade partners.
• Must be prepared to participate and often lead the preparation and presentation of cost / budget information to the customer/owner.
• Must have experience being a member of the team involved in request for proposal responses (RFP’s) and the formal presentation for a project.
• Ability to engage and develop business with new and existing customers.
• Ability to lead the preparation and presentation of cost / budget information to the customer/owner.
• Ability to lead and facilitate value engineering sessions with the project team and design team.
• Is a key participant with leadership experience involved in request for proposal responses (RFP’s) and the formal presentation for a project.
• Must be familiar with reviewing construction contracts and can identify key insurance and damages clauses.
• Can lead, manage and motivate project teams during the preconstruction phase of a project.
• Builds and maintains relationships with internal Clark Pacific clients.
• Keeps current with latest estimating technology and techniques.

• Bachelor’s degree in CM, Engineering, or related major.
• 8 plus years of commercial construction and estimating experience.
• Excellent listening skills and strong communication skills.
• Creative and innovative approaches and solutions on a project-by-project basis.
• Ability to identify, adapt to, and resolve complex issues.
• Effective participation in team environment, with both external and internal teammates.
• Working knowledge of estimating technology and tools such as QTO,…