What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Preconstruction and Estimating position at Apex Underground?
Position Summary
The Director of Preconstruction and Estimating is responsible for leading the preconstruction effort on projects ranging from $100K to $5M infrastructure projects, targeting existing and new markets identified as part of Apex’s strategic and tactical planning efforts. The preconstruction team includes estimating, precon manager, marketing and business development. The director will be responsible for the successful launch of the estimating and preconstruction database, and integration with the Apex ERP. As director, they will be responsible for working with clients from project identification through handoff to the operations team. Following successful implementation of the estimating database, the director will be responsible for coordinating with the operations team to spearhead the implementation of field tracking and project management database.
Responsibilities : General
Assists with development and implementation of department policies and procedures.
Assists with maintenance, evaluation, and optimization of department software, as well as evaluating and implementing new software and technology to improve the department.
Marketing /
Maintain relationships with vendors, subcontractors, clients and owners through regular meetings as well as trade associations and professional development associations
Business Development
Build relationships with key design partners, subcontractor partners, project developers, owners, and architects.
Pre-qualification
Assists in identifying new and qualified subcontractors and material suppliers for subcontractor database
Complete prequalification process for strategic clients (e.g., Denver Water, DOTI, Xcel, Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU), etc.)
Maintain bid board for upcoming, current, and submitted proposals, bids, SOQs (e.g., Pipeline Suite, Procore, etc.)
Guides the Marketing Coordinator (is this the right title?) to track bid and proposal opportunities, and track prequalification requirements.
Estimating
Coordinate with Chief Estimator on current bidding opportunities
Manage pursuit teams on complex projects.
Interface with the client to understand their needs and incorporate those needs in all budgets and related documentation.
Assists Operations team to develop and distribute project postmortem report. Incorporates postmortem information to create unit price job cost history.
Preconstruction
Train and develop team members on alternative delivery best practices
Reviews and assigns scope packages to team members on pre-construction efforts.
Proactively coordinate the preconstruction process to provide accurate costs, constructability, and scheduling information to the client and Apex Team.
When needed, acts as a pre-construction team member on larger projects taking direction from the lead pre-construction manager for that project. While acting as a team member, effectively manages assigned scopes and provides clear and complete handoff of scopes when re-assigned to another project or project shifts to operations for buy out.
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