Ready to Build a Career with Christa? Pre-Construction Project Manager (Rochester, NY)
Overview
The role of the Preconstruction Project Manager is to provide leadership and support for the estimating and preconstruction departments at Christa Construction, while maintaining customer satisfaction through quality, service, and value. The ideal Preconstruction Manager is an active self starter who expresses a sense of urgency in their work. They should be a positive, confident, and passionate person capable of providing clients with quality customer service, coordinating with vendors, and communicating with internal team members. The Preconstruction Project Manager should be relationship driven, collaborative, able to take direction from supervisors, and able to delegate tasks to team members appropriately. Team members include owners, architects, contractors, vendors, and fellow employees.
Responsibilities
- Achieves customer satisfaction by meeting or exceeding customer expectations while demonstrating Christa’s corporate philosophy of outstanding business ethics and principles.
- Manages, plans, organizes, coordinates, and schedules preconstruction activities between clients, architects, engineers, municipalities, consultants, AHJs, utilities, and stakeholders across multiple projects
- Communicates constructively and ensures that information is disseminated efficiently and effectively throughout the project team
- Circumvents/resolves problem areas while maintaining the design-development schedule and managing cost
- Facilitates, coordinates, and documents design meetings; prepares and distributes meeting minutes and follows up on deliverables
- Conducts QA/QC and constructability reviews of design documents throughout the various stages of the design
- Monitors design scope for changes affecting the budget and/or schedule; identifies causes and advises the project team for potential solutions
- Leads value enhancement efforts as required to serve the client including developing items and lists, compiling ideas, and presenting information to the design team and customers
- Assists the design team with programming and design developments to achieve construction documents which are congruent with the customer’s budget and expectations
- Develops preliminary construction schedules through understanding of the client’s needs, the critical path on a project, the sequence of construction, project phasing, procurement timelines, and various trade durations with input from the operations team
- Assists the estimating department with sub mining, subcontractor procurement, and descoping of bids
- Ensures that the turnover of a project from Preconstruction and Estimating to operations is done properly with appropriate hand off meetings and that all information is transferred to the operations team
- Participates in presentations with potential clients, as required
- Assists in the development of owner contracts and contracts exhibits
- Assists with the procurement of subcontractors and suppliers as required or determined on a project by-project basis
Autonomy and Accountability
• Objectives and how the objectives are achieved will be defined either by the direct supervisor or by explicit procedures and rules. Situations not covered by rules or procedures are referred to the supervisor. All assignments, including the performance of tasks and activities, are reviewed by the supervisor in detail with the employee.
Technology / Skills
- Able to read and comprehend all construction documents
- Understands the design build process
- Thorough understanding of contract and insurance documents
- Technical understanding of all structural trades
- Able to understand geotechnical, structural, and material testing requirements and procedures • Knowledge of soil types and their properties, along with the ability to read and comprehend soils reports
- Experience in managing the installation of public utilities and understanding of the easement processes as well as timeframes for design and approval
- Knowledge of sediment and erosion control (SWPPP)
- Technical understanding of site development trades
- Technical understanding of all building envelope trades
- Technical understanding of all mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection trades • Technical understanding of all finish trade work
- Understanding of construction costs and estimates
- Technical understanding of fair housing and ADA codes
- Experience managing, coordinating, and obtaining permits from municipalities
- • Understanding of building codes and building envelope requirements
| Type of Technology, Equipment, Tool | Skill Level |
| Oracle Primavera Cloud | Intermediate |
| Microsoft Excel | Advanced |
| Microsoft Word | Advanced |
| Microsoft Outlook | Advanced |
| Bluebeam/Adobe | Intermediate |
| Procore | Intermediate |
Measures of Performance
- Projects are managed effectively and efficiently
- Solicitation and procurement of new business
- Community involvement
- Owners’ and architects’ expectations are met or exceeded through feedback obtained
- Overall project success with special consideration to the schedule, project team, and profit
- Proper attendance, attire, professionalism, and overall attitude
Reports to:
- Director of Preconstruction Services
The salary is between $90K and $115K based on experience.