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Position: Preconstruction Manager/Planner

Location: Suburban Boston (relo provided)

Company: AEC Firm

Company Overview

Company Overview: Our client is a well-established construction management company with 30+ years of industry experience. They specialize in manufacturing, industrial, and corporate facilities, with a strong focus on the growing " tech" market, including clean tech, biotech, and pharma. The company prides itself on cultivating strong, long-term client relationships, with over 75% of its work coming from repeat clients. The company fosters a supportive and positive work environment, leading to high employee retention, with many team members celebrating 20 to 30 plus years with the firm. The firm operates from a single location in suburban Boston and has a team of approximately 50 employees.

Why Work Here

The company operates in a very positive market, focusing on manufacturing, industrial, and corporate facilities, along with clean tech, biotech, pharma and logistics sectors, offering diverse project experience and a $150 million book of business. The company’s strong reliance on repeat clients means building and maintaining robust client relationships is a significant opportunity for success. With a clear succession plan in place, there are defined opportunities for career advancement. The varied portfolio of projects, from primary care facilities to logistics centers, provides ample opportunity to gain extensive experience in a short amount of time.  The company offers a very competitive base/bonus compensation plan and full benefits.

Position Overview:

We are actively seeking a Pre-Construction Manager/Planner to join and expand the company’s pre-construction department. This critical role involves leading project teams to deliver comprehensive pre-construction services for design-build projects. The ideal candidate will be a key facilitator, involved from the initial project concept through design, permitting, and pricing, working closely with various internal and external stakeholders. We are open to a broad range of experience levels for this position, from entry-level juniors to seasoned professionals with 10-15+ years of experience.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Responsible to:

  • ·Contribute to the overall project strategy and play an integral role in executing the strategy.

  • ·Organize multiple team members.

  • Engage and coordinate the expertise from each member of the design build team.

  • Function as client liaison to ensure client expectations and goals are properly identified and met.

  • Function as the main communication link with all project resources both internal and external.

  • Function as lead communicator to ensure all required meetings are scheduled and the appropriate team members are invited and in attendance in accordance with processes and procedures.

  • Hold weekly client meetings with the Project Architect/Captain during design development.

Attends:

  • Client sales meetings and presentations.

  • Internal strategy meetings to develop creative strategies and schedules to meet clients’ needs.

Schedules:

  • Internal project review meetings.

  • Client meetings.

  • Consultant meetings.

Collaborates with:

  • Client to establish project scope.

  • Design team to define project scope.

  • Design build subcontractors and vendors to generate project scope and pricing.

  • Construction team to establish construction schedules, means and methods, and logistics.

Prepares

  • ·Project proposals

  • Meeting minutes

  • Action item reports

  • Estimates (conceptual budgets, control estimates, and Guaranteed Maximum Prices (GMP’s)

  • Project scope summaries

  • Project schedules

  • Contracts for client review

Success Is Defined By

  • Project Awards

  • Successful project scoping/cost alignment

  • Accurate cost proposals/estimates

  • Exceptional customer satisfaction

  • Accurate data and proper information communicated throughout the entire team

  • Successful and timely meeting tracking process

  • Achieving deadlines

  • Well written and communicated proposals, emails and meeting minutes

  • Keeping current with updated costs and industry standards

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent experience, in Industrial Engineering, Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or similar technical degree.

  • Familiarity with building systems technology

  • Willingness to learn and grow with the Corporation

  • A strategic thinker with high organizational skills

  • Working knowledge of MS Office products, specifically Excel, Word, and Outlook

  • Must be detail oriented

  • Excellent communication skills

    Well organizational and multi-tasking abilities

Preferred Experience And Personal Attributes

  • Proficient at proposal writing and organizing and leading meetings

  • Experience estimating and preparing conceptual budgets

  • Working knowledge of Bluebeam

  • High drive to succeed coupled with excellent interpersonal and communication skills

  • Active team member with a high energy level and optimism

  • Morals and ethics are universal in all aspects of life, both personal and professional. Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of status or position

  • Has the need for efficiency, cost-effectiveness, customer care, and knowledge of the marketplace in which the company operates

  • Alignment with our core values around team support, client advocacy, and personal growth that includes accountability, transparency, ownership, and life-balance.

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