Senior Preconstruction Manager - Water​/Wastewater

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Overview

In this role, you will be responsible for leading all preconstruction activities on large volume water projects, including developing preliminary budgets, value engineering, preconstruction schedules, procurement plan, prequalification of subcontractors, detailed take-off and estimating, definition of bid package scopes, the subcontractor/supplier bidding process, evaluation of bids, presentation of detailed estimates of the work, evaluation of alternatives and comparative studies.



Job Responsibilities :

• Pre-Estimate:
• Participates in design review meetings. Reviews and monitors scope, cost, and constructability during design development
• 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
• Estimate Development:
• When in the lead estimator role, leads a team of estimators assigned to a proposal
• 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
• Engages proposal leader or design manager if design milestones are not met
• Engages in specific RFIs if estimate lead requires support
• Ability to identify risk issues and their order of magnitude
• Ability to create conceptual estimates
• Conducts final review of clarifications document
• Ensures estimate is compliant with RFP documents
• Conducts precon-only estimate reviews prior to ops reviews
• Participates in ops estimate review meetings
• Assess Value Engineering options on a basis of cost, schedule, and constructability
• Subcontractor Management:
• Builds and maintains subcontractor relationships
• 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
• Verifies that only qualified subcontractors are considered in final subcontractor selection
• Meets with local subcontractors as needed
• Organizes, leads or participates in pre-bid meetings
• In conjunction with the Director of Preconstruction, develops process flows when necessary and ensures adherence of team members
• Manages the development of standardized documents and ensures use of those documents
• Ensures subcontract market has a positive experience with Haskell during the preconstruction phase Identifies and communicates opportunities for improvement if necessary
• Identifies subcontractors who have a competitive advantage and develops key relationships to employ those advantages
• 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
• Ensures selected subcontractor is a corporately responsible selection
• Assists the Project Director with the development of the Risk Register
• Assists with the contract manual/bid book development
• Post Estimate:
• Ensures that the budget submitted to accounting complies with corporate cost coding standards
• Participates in scope review meetings
• Assists in subcontractor selection
• Responsible for compiling lessons learned for the preconstruction phase
• Participates in lessons learned meeting at project close. Understands budget underruns and overruns, and communicates those lessons learned to the preconstruction department
• Ensures successful handoff from preconstruction to project team
• May assist the Project Management team with buy out
• May assist the Project Management team with change orders
• Database Maintenance:
• Responsible for development and ensures maintenance of preferred subcontractor database
• Responsible for development and ensures maintenance of bid forms and bid packages database
• Responsible for development and ensures maintenance of cost history database
• Assists with the maintenance of the estimating database
• Training:
• Trains Preconstruction staff, APMs, PMs, and other personnel as needed
• Responsible for development and maintenance of training program
• Conducts or assists with employee performance reviews and participates with employee career development
• Travel:
• Meets with local subcontractors, attends bid walks, and attends conferences as necessary
• Visits active construction projects as appropriate
• Expected travel 10-25% of time
• Misc:
• Manages preconstruction resources
• Coordinates with preconstruction professionals from other project…