Martin Horn Inc., a leading construction company, is seeking a Senior Preconstruction Manager to join our team.
At Martin Horn, we cultivate a culture that is built on integrity, relationships, ingenuity, performance, and giving back to the community. With a team of 30 office professionals and 40 field professionals, we prioritize hiring top talent and empowering them to excel in their roles. Our leaders base decisions on our core values and genuinely care about the well-being of our employees, both professionally and personally.
What sets us apart is our emphasis on the value of family and creating a supportive environment. We ensure that employees are paid well and have the flexibility to balance work and personal life. It just so happens to also work out that we genuinely enjoy spending time together. We foster a collaborative atmosphere where everyone's input and ideas are valued, and we work together as a unified team towards shared goals.
We strongly believe in continuous learning and professional growth, supporting employees' educational pursuits, and providing time off for personal development. We also invest in top technology and resources to equip our employees for success.
As for employee perks, we offer tickets to local live music performances and sporting events, appreciate the importance of work-life balance, and provide unlimited paid time off, trusting our employees to manage their time responsibly while delivering quality work. Overall, our company culture is characterized by a strong sense of community, trust, collaboration, and a commitment to personal and professional growth.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Work independently and/or as part of a team to develop construction budgets based on conceptual plans, schematic drawings, design development drawings, or full construction documents.
- Ability to look beyond the information that has been given, to ask the right questions and work to provide a complete project cost evaluation.
- Must be aggressive in finding innovative solutions to complex issues as they arise related to cost, lead-times, trade partners, and/or specified products or materials.
- Ability to prepare detailed estimates and, as the design evolves, develop variance summaries between estimates and value engineering studies throughout.
- Ability to assemble a compete presentation-worthy estimate package that clearly communicates project cost.
- Review plans and prepare recommendations and pricing as it relates to supervision, project management, safety, logistics, staging, general conditions, special conditions, and jobsite requirement costs of a particular project.
- Ability to engage and develop business with new and existing customers and act as a relationship manager to serve the needs of the client and protect the interests of Martin Horn.
- Participate in and often lead the preparation and presentation of cost/budget information to the customer/owner.
- Ability to lead and facilitate value engineering sessions with the project and design team.
- Effectively prepare, track, and communicate construction contingencies and allowances with client.
- Make subcontractor award recommendations to clients and negotiate subcontractors with trade partners.
- Perform constructability reviews with architects, structural engineers, and MEP engineers to effectively analyze cost risk of building as well as perform detailed value engineering studies to mitigate cost and budget exposure.
- Executing accurate, detailed and complete conceptual, preliminary, contract, and final estimates.
- Ability to prepare detailed instructions to bidders, trade specific clarifications and comprehensive bid packages.
- Must have experience with the bidding process: soliciting bids, communicating with the bidders, evaluating subcontractor proposals, bid-leveling, scope review, etc.
- Must be familiar with reviewing construction contracts and identifying key insurance and damages clauses.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Creative and innovative approaches and solutions on a project-by-project basis.
- Highly organized, efficient, detail oriented and accurate.
- Strong leadership, communication, and negotiating skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively and establish a relationship built on trust with clients, architects, engineers, subcontractors and other stakeholders.
- Experience with successfully preparing persuasive preconstruction proposals and responding to RFPs.
- Familiarity with construction industry standards and regulations.
- Experience with computer skills in Microsoft Office Suite, take-off software (On-Screen Takeoff or similar), BIM tools, (Revit, Navisworks, SketchUp, or similar), project management software (CMiC, Vista, ProjectSight, Procore, or similar), and scheduling software (MS Project, Asta, or similar).
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in construction management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related field. Preferred, but not required.
- 10 years of industry experience in various construction types and systems.
- Project experience should include projects of values greater than $10 million. Conceptual to construction documents.
- Thorough working knowledge of all phases of design and construction.
- Detailed knowledge of the construction disciplines, including but not limited to: concrete, masonry, steel, wood frame, MEP systems, and interior/exterior finishes.
Compensation:
We offer a competitive salary based on experience, $130,000+/year. Advancement opportunities are available for top performers.
Benefits:
- Full benefits package including health, vision, and dental insurance.
- 401K and HSA with match
- Vehicle Allowance
- Responsible Paid Annual Leave
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Company Gym (24/7 access)
- Company Phone or Stipend
- Stocked office kitchen (beverages and snacks)
- Career and personal development education and training
- Business organization memberships, dues & fees
- Tickets to events, including UVA athletics, performances at the John Paul Jones Arena and Ting Pavilion, and Monticello
- Off-site social events
Martin Horn Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.