Senior Preconstruction Lead, Life Sciences Projects

IPS-Integrated Project Services, LLC

Emeryville, Irvine, Leawood (CA, CA, KS)

On-site

USD 104,000 - 160,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

IPS is seeking an Early Preconstruction Manager to lead all preconstruction activities for technically complex facilities in life sciences. You will align stakeholders, mitigate risks, and drive decision-making from project initiation through contract execution and construction readiness.

The role includes handoff to the execution team and ensuring full project scoping, budgeting, and permitting. The successful candidate will oversee governance, scheduling, cost control, design coordination, and

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction management, or related discipline, OR 5 years of experience in project delivery related to preconstruction activities.

Responsibilities

Facilitate cross-functional kickoff meetings; define project communications, roles, and escalation paths.
Implement governance structure, approval workflows, and decision-making hierarchy.
Stand up project management tools and document control systems; train project teams.
Develop the preconstruction execution plan and the construction execution plan.
Oversees completion of all preconstruction-related activities supporting project startup.
Participate in milestone reviews (Concept, BOD, Detailed Design); assist with tracking comments and resolution logs.
Conduct constructability reviews at all phases, generate a log, issue to the team, and follow up on closure of items.
Facilitate value engineering workshops; maintain VE logs and coordinate cost impact estimates with estimators.