Remote Preconstruction Lead: Estimating & Bids

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with matching company

Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision

Paid parental leave at 100% of salary

Paid Time Off and Company Holidays

Daily Pay

Job summary

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated is seeking a Lead of Preconstruction to transform project briefs into compelling proposals and bid packages. You will oversee estimating, bid packaging, and constructability from pursuit to award, while managing one or two preconstruction managers and applying a strong cost-estimating background.

You will develop detailed estimates, lead vendor strategy, and assemble comprehensive bid packages, ensuring compliant, fundable outcomes before moving to construction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in commercial preconstruction, estimating, or bid packaging on lump-sum and GMP work.
• Hands-on estimating experience and the discipline to maintain basis-of-estimate files that survive a handoff.
• Proven vendor coverage practices: walks, RFIs, apples-to-apples scopes, no single-source surprises on bid day.
• Ability to write exclusions, assumptions, and a procurement plan that holds up in compliance review.
• Experience building a critical-path bid schedule and work-package structure a Construction Manager can inherit.

Responsibilities

• Develop estimates, bid templates, and detailed take-offs using estimating and takeoff technology.
• Lead vendor strategy with the Project Manager: share documents, schedule walks, issue RFIs and clarifications, and collect and level bids.
• Assemble the full proposal package: detailed scope, procurement plan, exclusions/qualifications/assumptions, safety and logistics plans, schedule.
• Support Target Value Design and translate construction documents into a formal bid package and scopes of work.
• Feed Go/No-Go and compliance review with commercial backup and client-ready deliverables.
• Hand off the baseline to the Construction Manager at Move-to-Construction with scopes and schedule assumptions.
• Remain available after handoff to resolve re-buy or missed-scope questions.

Skills

Leadership

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Vendor strategy

Bid packaging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related field

PMP certification

Tools

COSTX

Estimating software

Construction management software

Job description

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated is seeking a Lead of Preconstruction to transform project briefs into compelling proposals and bid packages. You will oversee estimating, bid packaging, and constructability from pursuit to award, while managing one or two preconstruction managers and applying a strong cost-estimating background.

You will develop detailed estimates, lead vendor strategy, and assemble comprehensive bid packages, ensuring compliant, fundable outcomes before moving to construction.