Senior Preconstruction Leader — Data Center Projects

Saulsbury; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Saulsbury Industries seeks a senior preconstruction leader to guide mission-critical projects (data centers and high-reliability facilities) from pursuit through GMP and transition to construction. You’ll shape scopes, budgets, schedules, and procurement strategies while coordinating with clients, design partners, and internal teams.

Ideal candidates have a Bachelor’s in Engineering/Construction Management and 8+ years of construction leadership, with strong skills in estimating, risk

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent preconstruction, estimating, or construction management experience may be considered.
• 8+ years of progressive construction experience, including preconstruction, estimating, procurement, project management, or related leadership roles.
• Demonstrated experience on mission-critical, data center, industrial, or similarly complex projects; direct data center experience preferred.
• Strong knowledge of conceptual and detailed estimating, GMP development, bid leveling, scope reconciliation, constructability review, value analysis, and preconstruction deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Lead preconstruction efforts for mission-critical projects from pursuit, concept, and design development through GMP, buyout, and transition to construction.
• Develop and manage preconstruction plans, schedules, estimate milestones, procurement strategies, deliverable requirements, decision logs, and cost risk registers.
• Coordinate with clients, architects, engineers, consultants, general contractors, trade partners, vendors, utilities, authorities having jurisdiction, and internal teams.
• Lead constructability reviews, design coordination, scope gap analysis, value engineering, logistics planning, phasing analysis, and readiness reviews.
• Oversee preparation of conceptual, schematic, design development, and GMP estimates; validate assumptions, quantities, escalation, contingencies, allowances, exclusions, and alternates.
• Manage bid package development, subcontractor prequalification, RFP prep, bid solicitation, bid leveling, scope reviews, interviews, and award recommendations.
• Support procurement planning for long-lead equipment such as electrical gear, generators, UPS systems, and other MEP systems.
• Develop and maintain preconstruction budgets, cost models, cash flow projections, cost trend logs, scope reconciliation, and pricing updates.
• Partner with scheduling and operations to develop baseline preconstruction and construction schedules with permitting, utility coordination, procurement, activation, and turnover milestones.
• Provide technical input on mission-critical systems, redundancy, MEP coordination, commissioning readiness, site logistics, and phased delivery strategies.
• Prepare and present preconstruction updates, cost reports, risk summaries, procurement status, schedule impacts, and recommendations to clients and leadership.
• Support business development with proposals, client interviews, market intelligence, and relationship development.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Analytical skills

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Presentation

Education

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

Tools

Bluebeam

Procore

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Primavera P6

MS Project

Job description

Saulsbury Industries seeks a senior preconstruction leader to guide mission-critical projects (data centers and high-reliability facilities) from pursuit through GMP and transition to construction. You’ll shape scopes, budgets, schedules, and procurement strategies while coordinating with clients, design partners, and internal teams.

Ideal candidates have a Bachelor’s in Engineering/Construction Management and 8+ years of construction leadership, with strong skills in estimating, risk