Preconstruction Manager

• →Develop estimates, bid templates, and detailed take-offs using estimating and takeoff technology (e.g., COSTX or equivalent).
• →Lead vendor strategy with the Project Manager: share documents, schedule walks, issue RFIs and clarifications, and collect and level bids.
• →Assemble the full proposal package: detailed scope, procurement plan, exclusions/qualifiers/assumptions, safety and logistics plans, critical-path schedule, lump-sum vs. GMP recommendation, resource plan, design and permit strategy, commissioning plan, equipment/move lists, and finishes plan.
• →Support Target Value Design and translate construction documents into a formal bid package, scopes of work, and bid-form structure.
• →Feed Go/No-Go and compliance review with commercial backup and client-ready deliverables.
• →Hand off the baseline to the Construction Manager at Move-to-Construction: scopes, vendor coverage, long-lead list, exclusions, and schedule assumptions.
• →Remain available after handoff to resolve re-buy or missed-scope questions.

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in commercial preconstruction, estimating, or bid packaging on lump-sum and GMP work.
• Hands-on estimating experience and the discipline to maintain basis-of-estimate files that survive a handoff.
• Proven vendor coverage practices: walks, RFIs, apples-to-apples scopes, no single-source surprises on bid day.
• Ability to write exclusions, assumptions, and a procurement plan that holds up in compliance review.
• Experience building a critical-path bid schedule and work-package structure a Construction Manager can inherit.
• Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.

• PMP or equivalent project management certification.
• Direct experience with estimating take-off technology and construction management technology. 
• Target Value Design experience with an architected cost model.
• Comfort with mission-critical, workplace, or landlord-controlled interiors, infrastructure and sitework projects.

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