What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Preconstruction position at M. B. Kahn Services, LLC?
Primary Function: Lead the preconstruction team in the work acquisition process of negotiated and hard bid proposals. Play a key role in various types of proposal presentations.
Responsibilities:
- Promotes integrity, honesty, hard work, safety, and quality throughout all aspects of the project and is a professional representative of M. B. Kahn.
- Leader in the entire work acquisition process including management, coordination, and delivery of the preconstruction phases of the project.
- Determines and collaborates with the preconstruction team to determine scope of project(s).
- Oversees the development and execution and presentation of proposals.
- Overall responsibility for construction cost estimates and/or bid.
- Reviews design options and recommend the best solution based on cost, engineering quality, or availability of materials.
- Participates in negotiations, transition of project to construction phase and collaborate with team members on procurement strategies and planning.
- Thorough knowledge of reading plan specifications and drawings to determine overall scope of work.
- Ability to systematically manage discrepancies in drawings to stay on track.
- Manages team members tasks to develop project schedule and the company’s corresponding cost for equipment, supervision, and labor costs.
- Manages many variables simultaneously to stay on track for successful bid execution/cost estimation.
- For design-build projects, lead the design-build team in the refinement of project scope and price while collaborating with the assigned Project Manager who will be responsible for the development and execution of the design-build schedule.
- Leads preconstruction efforts to respond to RFQs or RFPs.
- Ability to develop conceptual estimates for projects from incomplete information relying on experience with projects of a similar nature.
- Driven and determined to overcome obstacles that may arise.
- Comfortable working under the pressure of a deadline and managing many variables simultaneously.
- Sets priorities for the various operations that must be performed and accomplished through delegation to team members.
- Sets Pre-Construction Budgets, performs Profit Forecasts and reports to Division Manager.
- Sets One, Three- and Five-Year Revenue Goals for preconstruction team alongside the Division Manager.
- Participates in the recruitment and hiring of new preconstruction team members.
- Complies with adherence to M. B. Kahn’s Safety Program, OSHA guidelines, and Company policies, procedures, and standards.
- Promotes integrity, honesty, hard work, safety, and quality throughout all aspects of the project and is a professional representative of M. B. Kahn.
- Performs additional assignments as directed by management or as required for successful project completion.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Proficient in all aspects of Sr. Estimator.
- Ability to manage, lead and mentor a team.
- Thorough understanding and proficient use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and On-Screen Take-Off Program(s).
- Naturally analytical and able to visualize two dimensional drawings in three dimensions.
- A natural mathematician, instinctively comfortable with numbers.
- Demonstrates excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills both written and verbal.
- Skilled at managing multiple and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.