Preconstruction Manager

L.F. Jennings; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

L.F. Jennings in Falls Church, Virginia, seeks a Preconstruction Manager who will lead the preconstruction process, develop budgets, and guide project teams from concept to bid.

This role involves direct collaboration with owners and design teams and oversight of estimator groups to ensure comprehensive bid coverage. The successful candidate will manage multiple projects, conduct takeoffs, write scopes, and supervise bid packages while coordinating with operations to optimize scheduling and

Qualifications

• Experience in preconstruction for commercial projects.
• Ability to produce budgets and takeoffs from design documents.
• Experience leading estimators through the bid process.
• Strong communication with owners and design teams.

Responsibilities

• Produce budgets for diverse projects including takeoffs and subcontractor input.
• Prepare conceptual and detailed budgets from napkin sketches to bid sets.
• Manage multiple projects in different development stages.
• Lead estimator teams during bids, ensuring scope coverage and timely bid dates.
• Coordinate pricing with trades and subcontractors for proper bid coverage.
• Review bid documents to identify critical project components and plan with operations.

Skills

Estimating

Team leadership

Bid management

Preconstruction planning

Job description

L.F. Jennings is seeking a Preconstruction Manager to join our team in Falls Church, Virginia. This key team member will be passionate about building quality for their clients and will thrive within a team environment.

Our Preconstruction Manager will represent L.F. Jennings, managing the Preconstruction process for our clients. Responsibilities include process management, producing iterative budgets, coordinating project teams internally and externally, providing guidance to owners and design teams during design development, value engineering projects to meet client budgets, coordinating work with our operations personnel, and lead a group of estimators through the bid process. Candidate should be able to scope every trade on commercial projects.

The Preconstruction Manager fulfills the role of a working manager. Though leadership is a differentiating factor of the position, the Precon Manager is expected to perform takeoffs, write scopes, bid packages, and properly qualify scopes of work. Estimating staff will be provided as needed to fulfill responsibilities.

The right candidate will have experience…

• in both hard bid and negotiated work.
• organizing and leading a team of estimators to work on bids.
• working directly with owners and architects throughout pre-construction and contract award
• preparing a conceptual estimate with minimal information.
• Buying out and awarding subcontracts.
• effectively communicating, organizing, and managing their time and resources.

Responsibilities

• Produce budgets for various projects. This includes quantity takeoffs, obtaining subcontractor input, using applicable historical pricing information, properly qualifying the proposal, and presenting the budget to our client.
• Prepare conceptual and detailed budgets from all levels of documents ranging from napkin sketches, schematic design, design development, and a bid set of documents.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously in different stages of development.
• Lead teams of estimators during the bid process, ensuring proper coverage of the scope of work and taking responsibility for bid dates, compiling bid information on bid day, properly qualifying the project, and compiling the proposal for the client.
• Lead the bid team in making sure that the appropriate trades and, more importantly, the appropriate Subcontractors within those trades are being targeted for pricing to ensure proper bid coverage is obtained.
• Review the bid set of documents and identify critical components of the Project that need focus from the bid team as well as operations to make sure proper planning is performed during the bid. This includes meeting with operations and discussing phasing, logistics, and overall construction sequence for the Project.
• Maintain contacts in the industry and keep apprised of market conditions that may affect L.F. Jennings’ product offerings, including pricing and scheduling factors.
• Report to the VP level directly within the department.
• Lead the buyout process once a project is awarded.
• Review Subcontract scopes of work prepared by the bid team to make sure the scopes are complete and there are no gaps between trades during the buyout process.

L.F. Jennings values and is committed to its team members. L.F. Jennings, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. L.F. Jennings is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. We value each of our employees and seek to create an environment where they can grow and be successful.

L.F. Jennings, Inc. offers a competitive benefits package, including a strong bonus program, medical, dental, and vision insurance, long term disability, voluntary life insurance and AD&D, an employee assistance program, and a 401(k) profit sharing plan with employer contribution. Base salary for this position is $100,000 - $145,000, commensurate with experience and ability.