Preconstruction Executive

mydpr; North Carolina; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

DPR Construction seeks a seasoned Preconstruction Leader to drive early-stage cost strategy, design-phase assessment, and constructability reviews for major projects. You will coordinate with clients, designers, and DPR operations leaders to ensure deliverables are accurate and aligned with objectives.

Lead a team of professionals, mentor staff, and uphold DPR's standards for transparent communication, disciplined action, and project excellence across multiple pursuits or a large program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, or related field is required.
• 12+ years in preconstruction, estimating, or project engineering; 5+ years in leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead preconstruction planning, coordination, and delivery for large projects.
• Align scope, cost, schedule, and objectives across teams and clients.
• Evaluate strategies, constructability, and risk early in projects.
• Review major estimates, logistics, and value analysis for high-risk pursuits.
• Foster relationships with clients, design teams, and partners for decisive outcomes.
• Provide mentorship and strengthen preconstruction workflows across teams.
• Support pursuit strategy, proposals, and executive-level presentations.

Skills

Leadership

Preconstruction planning

Cost estimation

Client relations

Cross-functional coordination

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering / construction management

Job description

At DPR, roles and responsibilities are more than describing a job title-they are a commitment to building great things together. The job description(s) below defines core responsibilities and the scope of the role and is a starting point. Every employee is expected to lead from where they are, take ownership of outcomes, and always act in the best interest of the team, customer, project and organization.

As a purpose-driven organization on a journey to be most admired, we rely on trust, shared leadership, open communication, disciplined action and a deep respect for the individual to drive exceptional performance. Success is not just about what we build, but who we build and how we build it: with integrity, enjoyment, uniqueness and an ever-forward mindset.

Job Summary

Leads preconstruction for a large project, on a program or across multiple key projects, by overseeing cost strategy, conceptual planning, design-phase evaluation, constructability assessments, and early risk identification. Coordinates with clients, designers, trade partners, and DPR operations leaders to ensure preconstruction deliverables are complete, accurate, and aligned with project objectives. Provides technical leadership and guidance to preconstruction team members while promoting consistent processes, transparent communication, and informed decision-making. Represents preconstruction strategy during client interactions and supports project transition into execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads preconstruction planning, coordination, and delivery for a large project, ensuring alignment among scope, cost, schedule, and project objectives.
• Guides evaluation of strategies, constructability considerations, system alternatives, and early risk drivers to support project clarity and feasibility.
• Reviews major estimates, logistic strategies, and value analysis for high risk pursuits, challenging key assumptions and validating alignment with strategic goals.
• Builds senior level relationships with key clients, design teams, trade partners, and operations leaders to clarify assumptions, resolve issues, and support effective decision-making ensuring alignment at critical decision milestones.
• Provides direction and mentorship to preconstruction team members and contributes to strengthening the project's preconstruction workflow providing consistency across teams.
• Supports pursuit strategy, proposal development, and major presentations for the assigned project and provides leadership and oversight for preconstruction planning across multiple key pursuits, or one large project in a program, ensuring alignment among scope, cost, schedule, risk, and business objectives.
• Represents preconstruction leadership in executive level client and design meetings, communicating strategies, assumptions, and recommendations.

Education Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, a related field, or equivalent experience required.

Work Experience

• 12 or more years of experience in preconstruction, estimating, or project engineering required.
• 5 or more years of leadership or managerial experience required.

Certifications and Licenses

None required.

DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.

Working at DPR, you'll have the chance to try new things, explore paths and shape your future. Here, we build opportunity together-by harnessing our talents, enabling curiosity and pursuing our collective ambition to make the best ideas happen. We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work by our talented teammates and leading news organizations like U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Fast Company and Newsweek.

Explore our open opportunities at www.dpr.com/careers .