Chief Preconstruction Manager

Responsibilities

Brasfield & Gorrie has an exciting opportunity for a Chief Preconstruction Manager to help lead our commercial and healthcare teams. The position will be based out of our Birmingham office.

Responsibilities and Essential Duties (other duties may be assigned) :

• Lead multiple estimates, lead multiple estimate types, and manage teams of estimators
• Compile conceptual estimates, including project benchmarks and details
• Understand and execute multiple delivery methods, including hard bid, negotiated GMP, Design Build, and IPD
• Work with operations teams on general requirements, including fees, financials, staffing of jobs, and construction schedules
• Proficiently utilize estimating software tools : P6, BuildingConnected, BlueBeam, Agtek, Sage, Destini, Assemble and others
• Understand pro-forma targets and anticipate unique factors for each job
• Foster collaboration regarding resources and ideas for continuous improvement with other departments, offices, and regions
• Partner with associated division / market to assist in managing and forecasting pursuit costs
• Drive projects forward and understand efforts needed in order to achieve desired results
• Research, discover, and leverage strategies to win projects
• Strategically apply preconstruction resources for greatest return on investment
• Collaborate with clients to understand and extract their true needs
• Allocate and forecast personnel needs and department capacity
• Navigate client, designer, and estimating team through budget review
• Lead teams (designer / client / trades) from design to a target budget
• Represent the estimating team at job interviews and clearly present estimates to clients
• Manage, mentor, coach, and develop all estimators on assigned conduct annual performance reviews
• Establish and maintain relationships with architects, owners, engineers, subcontractors, designers, clients, and others for potential business development
• Research emerging trends in preconstruction and apply innovative strategies to continuously improve performance of department

Education - Skills - Knowledge - Qualifications & Experience

The above description covers the principal duties and responsibilities of the job. The description shall not, however, be construed as a complete listing of all miscellaneous, incidental, or similar duties which may be required from day-to-day. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EOE / Vets / Disabilities

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