Preconstruction Manager

L.F. Jennings is seeking a Preconstruction Manager to join our North Carolina team in Cary, North Carolina. This key team member will be passionate about building quality for their clients and will thrive within a team environment. Candidates should have between three and five years of experience.

Our Preconstruction Manager will represent L.F. Jennings, managing the Preconstruction process for our clients, including producing iterative budgets, coordinating project teams internally ad externally, providing guidance to owners and design teams during design development, value engineering projects to meet client budgets, coordinating work with our operations personnel, and lead a group of estimators through the bid process. The Preconstruction Manager fulfills the role of a working manager. Though leadership is a differentiating factor of the position, the Preconstruction Manager is expected to perform takeoffs, write scopes, bid packages, and properly qualify scopes of work. Estimating staff will be provided as needed to fulfill responsibilities.

The right candidate will have experience…

• in both hard bid and negotiated work.
• organizing and leading a team of estimators to work on bids.
• working directly with owners and architects throughout pre-construction and contract award
• preparing a conceptual estimate with minimal information.
• Buying out and awarding subcontracts.
• effectively communicating, organizing, and managing their time and resources.

Responsibilities

• Produce budgets for various projects. This includes quantity takeoffs, obtaining subcontractor input, using applicable historical pricing information, properly qualifying the proposal, and presenting the budget to our client.
• Prepare conceptual and detailed budgets from all levels of documents ranging from napkin sketches, schematic design, design development, and a bid set of documents.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously in different stages of development.
• Lead teams of estimators during the bid process, ensuring proper coverage of the scope of work and taking responsibility for bid dates, compiling bid information on bid day, properly qualifying the project, and compiling the proposal for the client.
• Lead the bid team in making sure that the appropriate trades and, more importantly, the appropriate Subcontractors within those trades are being targeted for pricing to ensure proper bid coverage is obtained.
• Review the bid set of documents and identify critical components of the Project that need focus from the bid team as well as operations to make sure proper planning is performed during the bid. This includes meeting with operations and discussing phasing, logistics, and overall construction sequence for the Project.
• Lead the buyout process once a project is awarded.
• Review Subcontract scopes of work prepared by the bid team to make sure the scopes are complete and there are no gaps between trades during the buyout process.

L.F. Jennings values and is committed to its team members. L.F. Jennings, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. L.F. Jennings is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. We value each of our employees and seek to create an environment where they can grow and be successful.

L.F. Jennings, Inc. offers a competitive benefits package, including a strong bonus program, medical, dental, and vision insurance, long term disability, voluntary life insurance and AD&D, an employee assistance program, and a 401(k) profit sharing plan with employer contribution.

Drug testing required.