Senior Preconstruction & Estimating Leader

London Approach; Willistown Township (PA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

London Approach is seeking an experienced Preconstruction Manager to lead planning and client-facing estimating across the Mid-Atlantic. The role drives budgets, constructability reviews, and procurement plans from design phase through GMP turnover, coordinating with owners, design partners, and internal teams on complex institutional projects.

You will oversee quantity takeoffs, value analysis, and risk assessment, presenting options to clients and guiding the project from early planning to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of progressive commercial construction experience with substantial estimating/preconstruction responsibility.
• Experience managing preconstruction for commercial, healthcare, education, senior living, or institutional projects.
• Strong knowledge of conceptual/hard-bid/negotiated estimating, budgeting, value engineering, and subcontractor procurement.
• Ability to read architectural, structural, MEP drawings and specifications.
• Understanding of construction means, methods, sequencing, logistics, and cost drivers.
• Proven ability to build trust with clients, design partners, subs, and internal teams.
• Proficiency with estimating, scheduling, document management, and project-management software.
• Excellent presentation, negotiation, organization, and written/verbal communication skills.
• Proactive, accountable, collaborative with high integrity and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Lead preconstruction from concept through final estimate, GMP, and turnover to operations.
• Coordinate with owners, developers, architects, engineers, and internal teams to set goals, budgets, and schedules.
• Prepare conceptual, schematic, design-development, and construction-document estimates.
• Perform quantity takeoffs, scope analysis, bid leveling, and price reviews.
• Develop budgets, cost models, and risk analyses; maintain value-engineering logs.
• Identify constructability issues and procurement risks early in design.
• Coordinate with estimating, PM, field, VDC, MEP, and purchasing teams to develop plans.
• Solicit and evaluate subcontractor pricing and maintain strong trade relationships.
• Lead preconstruction meetings, present budgets and plans to clients and design teams.
• Support design-build and other delivery methods; assist with procurement strategies.
• Prepare GMP proposals, allowances, alternates, and bid packages.
• Ensure clear turnover to PM and field teams with defined scope and pricing assumptions.
• Stay current on market conditions, subcontractor capacity, and material/labor trends.

Skills

Preconstruction management

Estimating

Budgeting

Value engineering

Constructability

Client liaison

BIM/VDC coordination

Subcontractor procurement

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management

Tools

Excel

Estimating software

MS Project

BIM/VDC tools

Job description

London Approach is seeking an experienced Preconstruction Manager to lead planning and client-facing estimating across the Mid-Atlantic. The role drives budgets, constructability reviews, and procurement plans from design phase through GMP turnover, coordinating with owners, design partners, and internal teams on complex institutional projects.

You will oversee quantity takeoffs, value analysis, and risk assessment, presenting options to clients and guiding the project from early planning to