What are the responsibilities and job description for the Collaborative Delivery Preconstruction Manager - Water position at Wharton-Smith, Inc.?
Wharton-Smith, Inc. is currently seeking an experienced Collaborative Delivery Preconstruction Manager to work at our headquarters in the Sanford, FL area.
Primary Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities
- Contribute to proposal and presentations as required.
- Establish and maintain client relationships, leveraging those relationships to assist the Company in preparing for upcoming proposals.
- Coordination with the estimating department lead and specialty estimators to deliver design phase cost estimates.Ability to read drawings, geo-tech reports and specifications.
- Identify areas of project risk and work with the design team to generate solutions to eliminate or reduce risk to all parties.
- Hold regular progress and milestone meetings with all stakeholders.
- Review engineering deliverables and provide meaningful and well-organized constructability comments in a timely manner.
- Solicit Subcontractor/Supplier participation.
- Provide owner/engineer with innovation solutions to maintain project budget and objectives.
- Maintain preconstruction phase schedule in P6 and coordinate with operations to develop construction phase schedule. Update the schedule for each milestone and for GMP development.
- Develop and write GMP bid packages.
- Coordinate all aspects of the bidding phase(s).
- Proficient in scope analysis, ability to estimate deficiencies as needed.
- Project RFQ and RFP development.
- Coordinate and establish the project budget (GMP).
- Understanding of project funding mechanisms and requirements to maintain compliance.
- Communicate with operations regularly to ensure project schedules meet the needs of the company and all promises made to the owner can be fulfilled.
- Projects ranging from 4 Million to 500 Million.
- Developing and maintaining long-term beneficial relationships with key vendors and subcontractors.
- Participate in pre and post-construction review.
- Maintain preconstruction project financials including Wharton-Smith costs, subcontract and vendor costs, engineering costs, and billings to the client to maintain healthy cash flow.
- Regular travel, outside geographic region, as required to meet the demands of the position including in-person meetings with client and engineers as well as travel to Wharton-Smith’s corporate or regional offices. Up to 25% travel required.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Utilize all Wharton-Smith tools to maintain a well-organized and well documented project, including comprehensive meeting agendas and minutes.
- Provide weekly reporting on progress of all projects and provide early identification of potential issues or delays.
- Maintain a clear status on all project action items for all team members to access.
- Establish and maintain hard deadlines for deliverables.
- Strong understanding and management of clients’ expectations.
- 5 years project management or design experience.
- Understanding of funding compliance.
- Previous experience with Hard Bid or Collaborative Delivery Municipal Water/Wastewater Projects.
- Ability to understand construction terminology.
- Strong communication and organizational skills.
- Valid Driver's License and ability to commute to job sites.
- Proficient with project management, financial, and scheduling software.