Job Description
Responsibilities:
Brasfield & Gorrie has an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Preconstruction Manager in Jacksonville, Florida.
Responsibilities and Essential Duties include the following (other duties may be assigned):
- Multiple years of experience in managing the construction or estimating construction costs for healthcare, commerical, water or medical projects.
- Knowledgeable about construction approach of building commerical, healthcare, medical or water facilities.
- Experience in leading estimates or major components of estimates.
- Experience in developing costs for self-perform work including, but not limited to, cast-in-place concrete, structure excavation and other earthwork scopes, above and below ground piping systems, and process equipment installation.
- Experience in working in a team of estimators and managing a team of estimators.
- Compile conceptual estimates, including project benchmarks and details.
- Willingness to leverage experience to support the department in other related markets and work types.
- Understand and work in a team to execute multiple delivery methods, including hard bid, negotiated GMP, Design Build, and Construction Management at Risk.
- Work with operations teams on general requirements, including fees, financials, staffing of jobs, and construction schedules.
- Understand pro-forma targets and anticipate unique factors for each job.
- Foster collaboration regarding resources and ideas for continuous improvement with other departments, offices, and regions.
- Partner with associated division/market to assist in managing and forecasting pursuit costs.
- Drive projects forward and understand efforts needed in order to achieve desired results.
- Research, discover, and leverage strategies to win projects.
- Strategically apply preconstruction resources for greatest return on investment.
- Proficiently utilize estimating software tools: P6, BuildingConnected, Procore, Agtek, Hard Dollar, and others.
- Collaborate with clients to understand and extract their true needs.
- Allocate and forecast personnel needs and department capacity.
- Navigate client, designer, and estimating team through budget review.
- Lead teams (designer/client/trades) from design to a target budget.
- Represent the estimating team at job interviews and clearly present estimates to clients.
- Understand federal requirements and their effect on the estimate, i.e. Davis Bacon wages, Buy American, etc.
- Manage, mentor, coach, and develop all estimators on assigned projects. Conduct annual performance reviews.
- Establish and maintain relationships with architects, owners, engineers, subcontractors, designers, clients, and others for potential business development.
- Research emerging trends in preconstruction and apply innovative strategies to continuously improve performance of department.
Education - Skills - Knowledge - Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor degree in construction, engineering, or related field; Or acceptable construction experience
- 2-5 years of construction experience with 5 years of experience managing progressively larger and more complex estimates/teams
- Proven experience delivering successful results at Senior Estimator level
- Understanding of all aspects of preconstruction
- Proven leadership ability with particular focus on mentoring, training, and motivating teams
- Ability to develop and maintain key long-term relationships (clients, subcontractors, partners, etc.)
- Excellent oral communication and interpersonal skills
- Technical writing skills
- Conflict resolution skills and experience with successfully resolving disputes
- Ability to multitask and prioritize resources
- Superior organizational skills
- Self-perform production knowledge
- Construction scheduling experience
- Quantity survey experience
- Proficient knowledge of estimating software
- Experience representing company with industry and community organizations
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