Pre-Construction Manager, Residential
2 months ago
- Posted 1 week ago
General Contractor
General contractor focused on residential highrise and commercial projects in Vancouver
Our client, a national General Contractor who offers full-service construction for buildings projects is experiencing growth and seeking a Pre-Construction Manager to join their team in Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary.
Responsibilities:
- Provide strong leadership to the estimators’ team, and monitor their performance on a continuous basis (provide positive feedback when performance is good, and provide corrective feedback if performance is lacking)
- Communicate clearly, concisely, and efficiently with own forces, clients, consultants, regulatory agencies, and other contractors
- Demonstrate a high level of professionalism
- Develop a close collaborative rapport with clients and consultants
- Produce written correspondence and reports, and present at the meetings
- Establish contract milestones and objectives, and communicate contract documents to all parties allowing them to discuss potential issues
- Plan, schedule, and present at internal and external meetings (including proposal, budget, and construction methodology meetings)
- Respond to design/build and construction requests: interpret and respond to clients’ inquiries in a timely fashion
- Actively participate and lead (where required) in the design/build team meetings
- Review and understand contract documents (knowledge of standard forms of contracts, principles of the contract law, and different types of construction contracts is required)
- Ensure a list of acceptable suppliers, carriers, and rental companies is maintained, and contribute to and maintain a historical database of information from jobs and/or estimates completed
- Keep abreast of technological changes in the industry
- Ensure material data is readily available and updated
- Work collaboratively in the Pre-construction and Operations teams: keep an open line of communication with team members
- Explore cost savings, constructability, design, production duration, and options with the team
- Spearhead utilization of BIM within and where conducive on upcoming projects
- Ensure that relevant project information is input to database and provide a staffing matrix for staff planning purposes
- Ensure that project objectives and important details are communicated to the project team members early
- Look for opportunities to maximize on-the-job training for anybody on the Pre-construction
- Team, and provide estimators with an opportunity to attend meetings when appropriate
- Work cooperatively with the rest of the pre-construction team to coordinate workload, monitor the team’s abilities and motivation, and coordinate times off
- Collect relevant information on prospective construction work and determine, in consultation with senior management, which jobs to tender (ability to estimate the value of the project by unit cost or elemental cost analysis)
- Compile a checklist of all trade divisions (knowledge of scopes of work and rules of procedure)
- Maintain a record of receipt and distribution of all proposal documents (drawings, specifications, contractors’ quotations)
- Study and understand plans, specifications, addenda, and all construction conditions set by owner/architect, and detect early determination of any discrepancies, ambiguities, and omissions in contract documents
- Study and understand drawings early in the job and know the performance requirements (accelerated schedule, etc.), environmental conditions of the contract, and understand the liability of errors or omissions to note such to the management and clients
- Conduct pre-consultation site inspection in conjunction with operations
- Brief senior management on market position: competition, advantages, and disadvantages of the project, price changes, etc.
Bid / Proposal
- Take ownership of preparation, completion, and presentation of a proposal
- Prepare a comprehensive tender/proposal submission and present it to management and the Client
- Review and finalize bid submissions in consultation with the management team and know the strategy to submit the proposal and address any further questions or requests
Post Bid / Post Proposal
- Confidently and concisely address any project-related inquiries
- Prepare and present a project budget and proposal by walking through the qualifications, detail budget/estimate, schedule, sequencing and staging plan, project documents, and the proposal (presenting to management and to the clients)
- Communicate the scope of the estimate to the project management team: special conditions about the project, estimated plan of construction, schedule, and budget
- Analyzing projects in detail to realize cost savings through re-design and assist in costing changes to contract
- Lead and participate in the post-tender negotiations
Quantity Take-Off
- Maintain standard procedures for all estimating work use take-off and pricing sheets, and software estimating packages
- Measure quantities from bid documents: interpret drawings and specifications, perform take-off in the appropriate sequence, summarize and verify quantities
- Coordinate and effectively communicate with subcontractors/suppliers on the scope of work
- Prepare a take-off summary: compile material, labour, and equipment to determine the total cost, and present it to the management team for review
- Solicit for trade proposals, analyze, and level all proposals
- Explore options, cost savings, and alternate means of production
- Meet with subcontractors to discuss proposals
- Compose scope of work checklists & contract documents
- Assist with trade and prime contracts, and with project/budget clarifications and qualifications
- Perform design document review and commentary and report to the client and consultants
- Manage project design documents and related correspondence
Costing:
- Estimate labour unit cost, utilizing historical data, cost reports, and other statistics
- Determine equipment requirements: utility of various types of equipment, its capabilities, and cost
- Cost standard work: interpret suppliers’ quotations and ensure materials conform to specifications; apply labour units
- Compile unit costs: compile all material, labour, equipment, and GCs to determine unit prices
- Cost specialty work (ability to adjust labour for project conditions and to interpret catalogues and various discounts)
- Assist in preparation of construction schedule by the construction team (knowledge of methods of scheduling and resource leveling throughout the project)
- Analyze reports on out-of-town conditions
- Calculate contractor’s costs
- Calculate and compile miscellaneous costs
Education / Experience
- Post-secondary degree or diploma in construction/engineering or an appropriate field.
- 7+ or more years of experience in estimating.
- Able to read and interpret building specifications, blueprints and as-builds.
- Mathematical and analytical skills necessary for development of material and labour estimates.
- Mathematical and analytical skills necessary for interpretation of job-cost reports.
- Able to use cost-estimating software to prepare cost quotes and bids.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and Adobe.
- Good understanding of current market conditions and competitors within our marketplace
- Effective verbal communication and listening skills.
- Good client service and public interaction skills.
- Able to work in a team environment with a minimum of supervision
- Collaborative in dealing with customers and fellow employees.
Employee Benefits:
- Competitive compensation, bonus and strong benefits package
- Training, education and development opportunities
- Company growth opportunities
Ideal Candidate:
• Only candidates with authorisation to work in Canada will be considered.
Please clearly highlight relevant work experience, project overviews and project scale ($) in your resume
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