Constructability Review Specialist - Pre-Bid Plan Review, K-12 Construction

MAAS Companies, Inc.; Monterey Park (CA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision benefits

401k

3 weeks PTO

ESOP ownership

Job summary

MAAS Companies, Inc. is seeking a Constructability Review Specialist to support the Design Manager and Owner Authorized Representative during design and preconstruction.

You will review project scope, schedule, and construction documents before bid, helping define the scope and coordinating multidisciplinary deliverables. Early in design, provide value engineering recommendations to lower cost without compromising building requirements.

Qualifications

• 15 years of full-time professional experience with a degree in architecture, including 10 years as a Construction Administrator on public or educational facility construction projects, fully responsible for supporting those projects, and 5 years as a Designer.
• 15 years of full-time professional experience as a Project Superintendent or Project Manager on public or educational facility construction or large commercial projects, fully responsible for coordinating complex projects, with at least one project over $30 million and $400 million or more combined
• At least 2 years of college coursework from a recognized college, university, or trade school, plus 5 additional years of experience, may substitute for the degree requirement

Responsibilities

• Definition and review of the Project Requirement Document scope of work and schedule, including interim housing requirements
• Value engineering recommendations at the start of design
• Written comments on design deliverables identifying inconsistencies, ambiguities, conflicts, errors, and omissions, to reduce RFIs and change orders
• Coordination of the construction documents across design disciplines
• Comprehensive constructability review of pre-bid construction documents

Skills

RFC writing

Submittal review

Change orders

Project coordination

Rapid design review

Education

Architecture degree

Substitution allowed: 2 years college + 5 years experience

Tools

Bluebeam

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

The Work

LAUSD's Project Execution group delivers the District's school construction projects. As Constructability Review Specialist, you support the Design Manager and the Owner Authorized Representative during design and preconstruction, reviewing each project's scope, schedule, and construction documents before they go to bid.

You help define and review the scope of work and schedule in the Project Requirement Document, including interim housing requirements. Early in design you recommend value engineering, meaning changes that lower cost without reducing what the building is required to do. As the drawings progress, you review the design team's documents for inconsistencies, ambiguities, conflicts, errors, and omissions, with the goal of reducing contractor requests for information and change orders during construction.

You make sure the documents are coordinated across the design disciplines and you prepare a comprehensive constructability review of the pre-bid construction documents, working collaboratively with the Design Manager and the Owner Authorized Representative.

What You Will Own

• Definition and review of the Project Requirement Document scope of work and schedule, including interim housing requirements
• Value engineering recommendations at the start of design
• Written comments on design deliverables identifying inconsistencies, ambiguities, conflicts, errors, and omissions, to reduce RFIs and change orders
• Coordination of the construction documents across design disciplines
• Comprehensive constructability review of pre-bid construction documents

Requirements

• 15 years of full-time professional experience with a degree in architecture, including 10 years as a Construction Administrator on public or educational facility construction projects, fully responsible for supporting those projects, and 5 years as a Designer. Projects of $8 million or more individually, or $80 million or more combined
• 15 years of full-time professional experience as a Project Superintendent or Project Manager on public or educational facility construction or large commercial projects, fully responsible for coordinating complex projects, with at least one project over $30 million and $400 million or more combined
• At least 2 years of college coursework from a recognized college, university, or trade school, plus 5 additional years of experience, may substitute for the degree requirement

Also Required

• Writing RFCs and reviewing submittals and change orders
• Microsoft Word, Excel, and Bluebeam
• The ability to work quickly, efficiently, and confidently

Benefits

Compensation

• Salary range: $191,000 to $210,000 per year, based on experience.

• Benefits: health, dental, and vision at low cost; 401k; three weeks of PTO; and an ESOP (employee stock ownership) at no cost to you, with a 3% Safe Harbor contribution vested on day one.

Why MAAS

MAAS has spent nearly 40 years earning the trust of 50+ educational institutions across California, managing over $10B in projects. That track record means the work here is stable, funded, and consequential. You are not chasing the next contract.

As a MAAS employee, you are also an owner. The company is 100% employee-owned through an ESOP, a retirement benefit provided at no cost to you, on top of your salary. MAAS is a profitable, well-run organization and our share price has more than doubled since the plan's inception, with continued growth year over year. Your ownership stake builds the longer you stay, and ESOP participants nationally tend to accumulate 2.5x more in retirement savings than employees at non-ESOP companies.

In an industry not known for prioritizing culture, 96% of MAAS employees say it is a great place to work, and 100% say people genuinely care about each other.