Preconstruction Manager: Cost, Bids & Strategy Lead

Clark Pacific; West Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation, paid weekly

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance,

Medical FSA

Dependent Care FSA

Employer-paid life insurance

Voluntary ancillary benefits including

401k matching: 100 percent of the 3%

Job summary

Clark Pacific in California is seeking a Preconstruction Manager to lead cost estimation from initial concept through subcontract award, coordinating with owners, design teams, and partners. You will develop detailed conceptual cost estimates, manage bid packages, and present cost information to customers and project teams, driving value engineering and accurate budgets for complex projects.

Travel may be required for project pursuits, and collaboration across departments is essential to deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CM, Engineering, or related major.
• 8+ years of commercial construction and estimating experience.
• Excellent listening skills and strong communication skills.
• Creative and innovative approaches and solutions on a project-by-project basis.
• Ability to identify, adapt to, and resolve complex issues.
• Effective participation in team environment, with both external and internal teammates.
• Working knowledge of estimating technology and tools such as QTO, Estimating, and BIM related software.
• Demonstrates behaviors consistent with Clark Pacific core values

Responsibilities

• Handling the project from first estimate all the way through subcontracts being formalized.
• Ability to look beyond the information that has been given, to ask the right questions and work to provide a complete project cost evaluation.
• Must be a collaborative and passionate advocate for our customers, empowering and informing them throughout the project.
• Must be aggressive in providing innovative solutions to complex issues as they arise related to cost, lead-times, trade partners, and/or specified products or materials.
• Ability to make reliable predictions as it relates to cost and be comfortable estimating across all scopes of work.
• Must have experience preparing detailed conceptual cost estimates and conceptual cost studies from schematic or feasibility-level documentation.
• Ability to prepare detailed estimates and, as the design evolves, develop variance summaries between estimates and value engineering studies throughout.
• Ability to assemble a complete presentation-worthy estimate package that clearly communicates project cost.
• Must be able to collaborate with project team to establish the necessary.
• Must have knowledge and understanding of unit costs and the factors that affect construction cost.
• Ability to prepare detailed instructions to bidders, trade specific clarifications and comprehensive bid packages.
• Must have experience with the bidding process: soliciting bids, communicating with the bidders, evaluating subcontractor proposals, using bid tally sheets, etc.
• Make subcontractor award recommendations to customer/owner and the negotiation and finalization of subcontracts with trade partners.
• Must be prepared to participate and often lead the preparation and presentation of cost / budget information to the customer/owner.
• Must have experience being a member of the team involved in request for proposal responses (RFP’s) and the formal presentation for a project.
• Ability to engage and develop business with new and existing customers.
• Ability to lead the preparation and presentation of cost / budget information to the customer/owner.
• Ability to lead and facilitate value engineering sessions with the project team and design team.
• Is a key participant with leadership experience involved in request for proposal responses (RFP’s) and the formal presentation for a project.
• Must be familiar with reviewing construction contracts and can identify key insurance and damages clauses.
• Can lead, manage and motivate project teams during the preconstruction phase of a project.
• Builds and maintains relationships with internal Clark Pacific clients.
• Keeps current with latest estimating technology and techniques.

Skills

Excellent listening skills

Strong communication skills

Creative and innovative approaches

Ability to identify, adapt to, and res

Effective participation in team

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CM, Engineering, or related major

8+ years of commercial construction and estimating experience

Tools

QTO

Estimating

BIM

Job description

Clark Pacific in California is seeking a Preconstruction Manager to lead cost estimation from initial concept through subcontract award, coordinating with owners, design teams, and partners. You will develop detailed conceptual cost estimates, manage bid packages, and present cost information to customers and project teams, driving value engineering and accurate budgets for complex projects.

Travel may be required for project pursuits, and collaboration across departments is essential to deliver