Preconstruction Manager

Our Preconstruction Manager will represent L.F. Jennings, managing the Preconstruction process for our clients. Responsibilities include process management, producing iterative budgets, coordinating project teams internally ad externally, providing guidance to owners and design teams during design development, value engineering projects to meet client budgets, coordinating work with our operations personnel, and lead a group of estimators through the bid process. Candidate should be able to scope every trade on commercial projects.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously in different stages of development.
• Buying out and awarding subcontracts.
• effectively communicating, organizing, and managing their time and resources.
• Review Subcontract scopes of work prepared by the bid team to make sure the scopes are complete and there are no gaps between trades during the buyout process.
• working directly with owners and architects throughout pre-construction and contract award
• organizing and leading a team of estimators to work on bids.
• Prepare conceptual and detailed budgets from all levels of documents ranging from napkin sketches, schematic design, design development, and a bid set of documents.
• Lead teams of estimators during the bid process, ensuring proper coverage of the scope of work and taking responsibility for bid dates, compiling bid information on bid day, properly qualifying the project, and compiling the proposal for the client.
• Lead the bid team in making sure that the appropriate trades and, more importantly, the appropriate Subcontractors within those trades are being targeted for pricing to ensure proper bid coverage is obtained.
• Review the bid set of documents and identify critical components of the Project that need focus from the bid team as well as operations to make sure proper planning is performed during the bid. This includes meeting with operations and discussing phasing, logistics, and overall construction sequence for the Project.
• Report to the VP level directly within the department.
• Produce budgets for various projects. This includes quantity takeoffs, obtaining subcontractor input, using applicable historical pricing information, properly qualifying the proposal, and presenting the budget to our client.
• Lead the buyout process once a project is awarded.
• preparing a conceptual estimate with minimal information.
• Maintain contacts in the industry and keep apprised of market conditions that may affect L.F. Jennings’ product offerings, including pricing and scheduling factors.

Drug testing required.

L.F. Jennings, Inc. offers a competitive benefits package, including a strong bonus program, medical, dental, and vision insurance, long term disability, voluntary life insurance and AD&D, an employee assistance program, and a 401(k) profit sharing plan with employer contribution.