Senior Preconstruction Project Leader

RNGD; Metairie (LA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

RNGD is seeking a Senior Preconstruction Project Manager to lead the preconstruction phase of complex commercial projects. You will coordinate with internal and external teams to drive budgets, constructability, and value engineering from concept through startup.

The ideal candidate has a minimum of six years in commercial construction, excellent contract-reading ability, and strong communication skills to build stakeholder relationships and deliver cost-efficient results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or similar field of study.
• 6+ years of experience in a commercial construction firm.
• Ability to read, understand, and interpret contract documents, drawings, specifications, scopes of work, and project schedules.
• Ability to identify and resolve complex issues
• Exceptional relationship-building, listening, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated understanding of building processes and systems.
• Ability to create and support team morale.
• Thorough knowledge of construction forecasting, cost, scheduling, estimating, purchasing, and accounting principles

Responsibilities

• Create cost efficiencies through process improvement.
• Manage projects, from the initial conceptual phase to turnover and through startup with Operations.
• Coordinate bid solicitation effort.
• Identify key subcontractors necessary for success, as well as unique subcontractor trades for project, and ensure they are part of the solicitation.
• Compile bid packages for complicated scopes that accurately convey the desired bid scope and requirements to subcontractor trade and adjust the bid package scope during the bid process to ensure level bidding from all interested parties.
• Create, manage, and report monthly preconstruction job budgets.
• Lead field coordination for early work execution.
• Develop value analysis by defining alternatives to the proposed scope that are more cost efficient and drive the value-engineering process.

Skills

Communication skills

Contract documents

Problem solving

Project coordination

Team morale

Cost forecasting

Scheduling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management

Job description

RNGD is seeking a Senior Preconstruction Project Manager to lead the preconstruction phase of complex commercial projects. You will coordinate with internal and external teams to drive budgets, constructability, and value engineering from concept through startup.

The ideal candidate has a minimum of six years in commercial construction, excellent contract-reading ability, and strong communication skills to build stakeholder relationships and deliver cost-efficient results.