Job Title: Sr. Manager, Preconstruction (Horizontal)
Company: Lifestyle Construction Services, LLC.
Department: Preconstruction
Reports To: VP, Preconstruction
The Team You Will Join:
Every successful project starts with a solid foundation. As such, Lifestyle Communities’ (LC) Construction team operates at the forefront of our commitment to creating participation-driven communities. You’ll join a talented team responsible for urban and suburban product types and quality offerings, including commercial, social, and residential spaces.
Who You Are:
As the Sr. Manager of Horizontal Preconstruction, you will support and administer strategies, processes, and best practices to ensure successful project planning, estimating, and bidding activities for vertical construction projects. You will help lead the preconstruction estimating and project planning to provide best-in-class estimates (job, project, construction) that support winning business development strategies and produce quality cost estimates and strategic pricing for multifamily real estate land development projects.
The Difference You Will Make:
- Command multiple functions of the horizontal preconstruction phase, including conceptual and detailed estimating, constructability analysis, value engineering, and project planning.
- Prepare and analyze cost models during the Design Development and/or bidding period for horizontal construction projects.
- Ensure estimates, including general conditions, are accurate, complete, and reflect the actual requirements of the land development project.
- Identify and mitigate risks related to supply chain disruptions, price fluctuations, quality issues, and contractual disputes to minimize project delays and cost overruns.
- Develop, negotiate, and approve contracts for selected contractors, subcontractors, and other service providers needed to complete the horizontal construction work.
- Visit ongoing projects to conduct quarterly project reviews and verify the estimate vs. project status, meet with the site teams, and view work in place for experience and comparison to the forecast.
- Keep current on changes and trends in methods of horizontal construction materials, construction costs, wage rates, work rules and regulations.
- Provide innovative solutions to complex issues as they arise related to cost, lead-times, trade partners, and/or specified products or materials for horizontal projects.
- Responsible for supporting and developing a team focused on estimating, planning, and monitoring key horizontal construction projects for the company.
- Make subcontractor award recommendations to customer/owner, negotiate, and finalize subcontracts with trade partners.
- Support and facilitate value engineering sessions with the project team and design team for horizontal construction projects.
- Invests deeply in the growth and success of self and others through LC’s five leadership behaviors: Humility, Caring, Curiosity, Courage, and Grit.
- Complete other projects as directed and assigned by senior leadership.
What You’ll Bring:
- Proven experience in a manager-level preconstruction role, demonstrating a track record of successfully delivering complex horizontal construction projects in land development for the residential/multi-family, mixed-use arena.
- In-depth knowledge of preconstruction processes, including project planning, estimating, value engineering, and bid management for horizontal construction.
- Strong understanding of construction contracts, regulations, codes, and standards for horizontal projects.
- Proficiency in construction estimating software, project management tools, and cost analysis techniques. Including advanced skills in MS Office and Excel.
- Excellent leadership and management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire cross-functional teams.
- Understand the financial and non-financial performance drivers.
- Uncompromising integrity and ethics; must be highly trustworthy.
- Teamwork approachability to work effectively with other Lifestyle companies (especially Development, Construction, Home, and Hospitality business units)
- A highly organized, self-directed, and self-motivated mindset.
- Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Work requires the ability to align and embrace our five Core Values: Performance, Communication, Leadership, Quality, Teamwork.
Direct Reports and Reporting Relationship:
You will lead a team of preconstruction professionals for horizontal construction, including estimators and bid coordinators, in addition to the ability to achieve results by working with others within the organization, regardless of the reporting relationship, which is a critical success factor.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline.
- At least eight (8) years of experience in preconstruction with 3+ years of leadership experience managing direct reports.
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, estimating software, take-off software (RS Means), project management software (ProCore), and scheduling software (Primavera or similar).
