The Role
Leads regional preconstruction and estimating teams from project pursuit through GMP execution. Oversees budgets, bids, estimates, pricing strategies, risk evaluation, constructability reviews, value engineering, client communication, and coordination with operations, MEP, and BIM teams. Ensures accurate, profitable project pricing, maintains owner budgets, monitors scope and schedule impacts, and delivers preconstruction standards and services.
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About Your Opportunity
You will lead and manage the preconstruction and estimating team for the region. You will provide the preconstruction services to clients from the time Wohlsen is pursuing, awarded, or hired for a project until the GMP is signed, and construction starts. You will be responsible for client satisfaction. You shall deliver preconstruction services on all assigned projects while maintaining Wohlsen preconstruction practices and standards.
Responsibilities
*Note to Recruiters, Placement Agencies, and Similar Organizations: Wohlsen does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our website, locations, or to any Wohlsen team member. Wohlsen will not pay fees to any third-party agency or firm and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes received will be considered property of Wohlsen and will be processed accordingly.
It is the policy of Wohlsen Construction to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. This policy relates to all phases of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, employment, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, reduction of workforce and termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, selection for training, the use of all facilities, and participation in all company-sponsored employee activities.
The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. This job description does not constitute a contract of employment and Wohlsen Construction may exercise its employment at-will rights at any time.
You will lead and manage the preconstruction and estimating team for the region. You will provide the preconstruction services to clients from the time Wohlsen is pursuing, awarded, or hired for a project until the GMP is signed, and construction starts. You will be responsible for client satisfaction. You shall deliver preconstruction services on all assigned projects while maintaining Wohlsen preconstruction practices and standards.
Responsibilities
- Management of the preconstruction and estimating team.
- Regularly monitor success, efficiency and accuracy of the department’s budgets, bids and GMP’s. Review and implement strategies to sustain efficiencies and accuracy of department work.
- Evaluate risk on projects when department is preparing bids or GMPs and ensure pricing is developed in a way to ensure costs are covered and the project can be profitable.
- Develop, review, and implement pricing strategies with the input of business development, operations and the department that support the overall company’s goals.
- Coordinate preparations of bids and GMPs with operations and ensure that proper operational input is provided with general conditions, logistics and planning of the projects.
- Work with MEP & BIM Services to assist with the development of procedures and standards and implementation for these service teams.
- Prepare conceptual, schematic, design development and GMP estimates to support preconstruction activities and clients.
- Maintain and adjust to Owner’s budget as required to maintain project budget.
- Monitor design scope for changes affecting budget and/or schedule; identify cause, advise client for client decision.
- Keep client fully informed of preconstruction progress on the project and of any significant technical problems/solutions and their effect on design and/or costs.
- Identify and promote solution to any problem, which might impede progress of the project or adversely affect client and architect relations.
- Lead value engineering and value enhancement efforts to serve our clients including development of items and lists, compilation of ideas and presentation of information to the client.
- Prepare and or oversee the preparation of all materials presented to the owner, architect or engineer on a project.
- Lead and perform constructability reviews of all projects where designated the preconstruction manager.
*Note to Recruiters, Placement Agencies, and Similar Organizations: Wohlsen does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our website, locations, or to any Wohlsen team member. Wohlsen will not pay fees to any third-party agency or firm and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes received will be considered property of Wohlsen and will be processed accordingly.
It is the policy of Wohlsen Construction to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. This policy relates to all phases of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, employment, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, reduction of workforce and termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, selection for training, the use of all facilities, and participation in all company-sponsored employee activities.
The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. This job description does not constitute a contract of employment and Wohlsen Construction may exercise its employment at-will rights at any time.
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The Company
What We Do
Wohlsen Construction Company is a merit-shop construction firm founded in 1890. It provides preconstruction, construction management, general contracting, and design-build services to clients in senior living, education, healthcare, and commercial markets. The company maintains offices across Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and Connecticut, serving regional clients with construction expertise and virtual design and construction capabilities for complex building projects.
