Senior Preconstruction Manager - Water/Wastewater

Description

• Meets with local subcontractors, attends bid walks, and attends conferences as necessary
• Ensures estimate is compliant with RFP documents
• Ensures selected subcontractor is a corporately responsible selection
• Participates in scope review meetings
• Ensures successful handoff from preconstruction to project team
• When in the lead estimator role, leads a team of estimators assigned to a proposal
• Develops overarching subcontractor search and communication strategy and ensures consistency in sub engagement teams adhering to that strategy. Ensures that at least 3 quotes are received per bid package, unless otherwise agreed to by the proposal leader
• Meets with local subcontractors as needed
• Coordinates with preconstruction professionals from other project delivery groups to ensure consistency in systems, methods, processes, and standards. Receives and shares best practices across groups
• Responsible for development and ensures maintenance of bid forms and bid packages database
• In conjunction with the Director of Preconstruction, develops process flows when necessary and ensures adherence of team members
• Assists with the contract manual/bid book development
• Organizes, leads or participates in pre-bid meetings
• Responsible for development and ensures maintenance of cost history database
• Ensures estimating team has the necessary tools, information, and resources to accomplish the goals of the estimate plan. If any are lacking, responsible for filling the voids prior to estimate submission
• Ensures subcontract market has a positive experience with Haskell during the preconstruction phase Identifies and communicates opportunities for improvement if necessary
• Assists with the maintenance of the estimating database
• Engages in specific RFIs if estimate lead requires support
• Trains Preconstruction staff, APMs, PMs, and other personnel as needed
• Visits active construction projects as appropriate
• Responsible for compiling lessons learned for the preconstruction phase
• Participates in design review meetings. Reviews and monitors scope, cost, and constructability during design development
• Responsible for development and maintenance of training program
• Engages proposal leader or design manager if design milestones are not met
• Participates in ops estimate review meetings
• Participates or leads the Estimate Plan meeting. Ensures that the strategy developed in the Estimate Plan is achievable within the time and resource constraints, considers multiple viewpoints to generate the win-strategy, and evaluates risks in a corporately responsible manner
• Responsible for development and ensures maintenance of preferred subcontractor database
• Builds and maintains subcontractor relationships
• Identifies subcontractors who have a competitive advantage and develops key relationships to employ those advantages
• Assists in subcontractor selection
• Works with the Business Diversity Coordinator when proposing on federal or public sector agency projects to develop a Small and/or WMBE business participation engagement plan that complies with project requirements
• Conducts final review of clarifications document
• Ensures that the budget submitted to accounting complies with corporate cost coding standards
• May assist the Project Management team with buy out
• May assist the Project Management team with change orders
• Conducts precon-only estimate reviews prior to ops reviews
• Assess Value Engineering options on a basis of cost, schedule, and constructability
• Verifies that only qualified subcontractors are considered in final subcontractor selection
• Assists the Project Director with the development of the Risk Register
• Conducts or assists with employee performance reviews and participates with employee career development
• Manages preconstruction resources
• Manages the development of standardized documents and ensures use of those documents

Requirements

• Ability to understand owner/engineer requirements with ability to work with conceptual information
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale water and wastewater projects
• Knowledge of estimating software (preference for Beck Destini, Accubid, Bluebeam, InSite, etc.)
• Strong organizational and leadership skills
• Demonstrated success in managing preconstruction pursuits
• Participates in lessons learned meeting at project close. Understands budget underruns and overruns, and communicates those lessons learned to the preconstruction department
• Experience in estimating, scheduling, budget/cost control, construction, external & internal client relationships, strong subcontractor & vendor relationships/knowledge, computer skills, interpersonal skills
• Expected travel 10-25% of time
• Knowledge of industry standard bid practice
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to train others and monitor their work for quality and completeness
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering, Construction Management or accredited construction related curriculum preferred plus 10 years of experience; or 15 years of relevant experience in the construction industry
• Demonstrated success in managing support staff
• Ability to create conceptual estimates
• Ability to communicate effectively with internal clients, external clients, and subcontractors
• Ability to identify risk issues and their order of magnitude
• Excellent computer skills and familiarity with Microsoft Office suite programs

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance