Electrical Preconstruction Lead: GMP & Budgets

Turner Construction Company; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 98,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision

401(k) plan

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

Wellness benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Employee referral bonuses

Paid vacation

Paid parental leave

End of year appreciation pay

Job summary

Turner SourceBlue, a subsidiary of Turner Construction Company, seeks an experienced security operations leader to manage on-site security and develop procedures for safeguarding personnel and assets on major construction projects. This role combines preconstruction insight with on-site oversight in a dynamic project environment.

Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years in building construction required; strong leadership, budgeting, and collaboration skills are essential to coordinate with operations,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree from accredited program in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or related field and minimum of 10 years of Building Construction experience or equivalent
• Experience with variety of building construction types
• Thorough understanding of drawings and specifications, general contract and subcontract documents, materials, means and methods
• Thorough knowledge of construction cost, scheduling, estimating, purchasing and engineering principles and techniques, and accounting principles
• Ability to develop client relationships, identify sales opportunities and collaborate on solutions to secure work
• Extensive knowledge of regional market, competition, and industry trends
• Ability to provide accurate qualitative and quantitative analysis of estimating documents
• Advanced project management skills, able to manage high volumes of work and move projects forward in a complex environment
• Management experience required, and coach and mentor others
• Negotiation skills with ability influence and engage others
• Executive level presentation skills, anticipates needs of audience, and tailors communications appropriately
• Pursues everything with energy, drive and sees initiatives through to completion
• Process and critical thinking skills with sound judgement decision-making
• Ability to leverage lean concepts and continuous improvement methods and tools

Responsibilities

• Accountable for Preconstruction deliverables, including GMP and Lump Sum bids
• Collaborate with Operations on Project Schedule, Logistics, Safety, Constructability Reviews, General Conditions and General Requirements
• Develop, review and approve Assumptions and Clarifications
• Develop and maintain relationships with clients, architects, design community, and trade partners to enhance future business development opportunities
• Collaborate with Procurement regarding Preconstruction estimates
• Participate in hiring process, onboard and deliver timely performance feedback for direct reports, execute/contribute to performance appraisals during annual performance cycle, utilize talent management systems, and identify appropriate training to help with development needs
• Develop and monitor Preconstruction budget for project, with focus on Preconstruction recoveries, including invoicing, and provide monthly financial updates or as requested
• Lead review meetings with owner, architect, and engineer related to Preconstruction phase
• Prepare comparison analysis to previous estimates and develop clear and concise messages to explain variances for each project stakeholder
• Establish Preconstruction Quality Control (QC) processes for scope and estimate reviews
• In collaboration with Operations, identify opportunities to drive improvement within preconstruction process by using VDC, IPD and other process enhancements
• Coordinate with Operations Lead to support Launch Matrix preparation, scheduling, evaluating, executing, and managing meetings for each estimate milestone
• Participate and contribute to Constructability Reviews for milestone estimates per Launch Matrix
• Coordinate with Lean Manager to develop and execute Pull Plans for design, estimate and GMP schedules
• Generate, coordinate and manage Budget Control Reports (BCRs) between each milestone estimate to manage cost events and value engineering opportunities. Provide variance reports for each milestone estimate to communicate scope development
• Lead Target Value Design process as appropriate for select projects
• Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned

Skills

Project management

Negotiation skills

Executive presentation skills

Client relationship development

Lean concepts

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Architecture/Construction Management

Job description

Turner SourceBlue, a subsidiary of Turner Construction Company, seeks an experienced security operations leader to manage on-site security and develop procedures for safeguarding personnel and assets on major construction projects. This role combines preconstruction insight with on-site oversight in a dynamic project environment.

Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years in building construction required; strong leadership, budgeting, and collaboration skills are essential to coordinate with operations,