Preconstruction Manager – Project (SoCal)

Reports to: Preconstruction Manager – SoCal

Position Description: Overall management and accountability for Preconstruction process from project inception through start of construction.

Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for all Preconstruction deliverables, including but not limited to, Guaranteed Maximum Price and Lump Sum bids.
• Collaborate with Operations on the Project Schedule, Logistics, Safety, Constructability Reviews, General Conditions and General Requirements.
• Develop, review and approve Assumptions and Clarifications.
• Develop and enhance relationships with clients, developers, architects, engineers and subcontractors.
• Coordinate with Procurement functions related to Preconstruction phase of project.
• Lead, develop and manage Preconstruction staff, including completing performance evaluations.
• Develop and monitor the Preconstruction budget for project, with focus on Preconstruction recoveries, including invoicing, and provide monthly financial updates or as requested.
• Leads meetings with the owner, architect, and engineer for all aspects of the Preconstruction phase. 
• Establish and ensure processes for Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) are included in scope and estimate.
• In collaboration with Operations, look for opportunities to drive improvement within the Preconstruction process by using Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and other process enhancements.
• Coordinate with Operations Lead to support Launch Matrix preparation, scheduling, evaluating, executing and managing meetings for each estimate milestone.
• Participate and contribute to Constructability Reviews for milestone estimates per the Launch Matrix.
• Coordinate with Lean Manager to develop and execute Pull Plans for design, estimate and GMP schedules.
• Coordinate with Operations Lead to provide input and ensure timely and completed constructability reviews; incorporate into milestone estimates, to extent required by contract.
• Prepare comparison analysis to previous estimate and develop clear and concise messages to explain the variances for each project stakeholder.
• Generate, coordinate and manage Budget Control Reports between each milestone estimate to manage cost events and value engineering opportunities. Provide variance reports for each milestone estimate to communicate scope development.
• Lead the Target Value Design process as appropriate for select projects.
• Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.

Job Requirements:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent from accredited and credentialed degree program with 2 years of formal Engineering or Architectural training, and 8 years of Building Construction experience including at least 4 years in an estimating role required, or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Experience with a variety of building construction types desired.
• Complete knowledge of estimating documents and ability to provide accurate qualitative and quantitative analysis of the documents.
• Knowledge of Estimating, Construction Costs, Scheduling, Purchasing, and Engineering principles and techniques, various construction methods and installation procedures; and general understanding of various building systems operations.
• Thorough understanding of drawings and specifications, general contract and subcontract documents, materials, means and methods
• Knowledge of Turner’s Project Management and scheduling software desired (Procore, P6).
• Knowledge of Accounting
• Able to multitask and meet established deadlines.
• Implement leading-edge technologies such as Building Information Models (BIM) and lean.
• Professional verbal and written communication skills, able to influence decision making, and command appropriate level of presence
• Advanced computer skills, MS Office, and Turner’s estimating software (BlueBeam, CostX)

Physical Demands: Performance of the required duties will require physical ability to climb permanent and temporary stairs, passenger use of construction personnel hoists, ability to climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Performing this job requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, sit, talk and hear, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works on-site at the construction work site where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise in these work environments is usually moderate to very loud.

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