Are you looking for an opportunity to work within a successful commercial construction organization with a healthy corporate culture? Christman may just be the place for you. We are seeking a Preconstruction Manager in the Knoxville, Tennessee region. As a member of Christman, you'll enjoy competitive compensation, a generous benefits program, a comprehensive benefits package that includes stock ownership in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), and a generous profit-sharing retirement plan. You'll also experience exciting opportunities for professional and personal growth and recognition. If you have what it takes to help us Make Christman MORE, we'd love to hear from you!

This position works closely with the Director of Project Planning and assists in managing this group focusing on resources, project strategies, and maintaining the Project Planning Group as a high-performance team. This role focuses on specific project assignments and the development of long-term relationships with project stakeholders. This position also provides feedback on resources and discusses necessary training needs, follow-through with standard operating procedures, and determines if the team is utilizing the latest technology.

Essential Job Functions Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Responsible for preconstruction deliverables to clients.
• Develops a strategy for each assigned project.
• Provides support to business sales, team sales, and presentations.
• Risk management - ensures sound financial deals.
• Drives cost estimation leadership.
• Oversees and prepares estimates for projects at all stages.
• Ensures accuracy of estimates produced.
• Responsible to ensure that the costing database is current and includes labor and material updates.
• Oversees the value-added process for each project.
• Takes lead in preparing guaranteed maximum prices and brings guaranteed maximum prices to closure.
• Directs, reviews, approves the work of Estimating Engineers, Conceptual Estimators, and Senior Estimators.
• Drives deadlines and achieves results.
• Ensures client satisfaction during preconstruction.
• Attends sales presentations and markets work to existing clients.
• Enforce and support project planning and logistics and scheduling with other teams.
• Ensures involvement of subcontractors for pricing.
• Supports operation team during subcontractor negotiations.
• Continuously develops staff by mentoring, leading, motivating, and coaching (e.g., Ethics, Diversity, Quality, Development, Safety).
• Manages successful client relationships.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related job field.
• Ten (10) or more years of experience in construction or related job field. -or-
• Equivalent combination of the above education, training, and experience.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related job field.
• An in-depth understanding of cost benefit analysis, risk management, statistics, general business skills, information technology, and construction or engineering.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Strong analytical and organizational skills and ability to delegate tasks, motivate colleagues, and manage stakeholders' priorities in a deadline-oriented environment.
• Recognizes problems or situations that are new or without clear precedent; evaluates alternatives and finds solutions using a systematic multi-step approach.
• Creates a sense of belonging and ownership among team members; assembles teams with the right mix of skills; coaches and motivates team members; delegates responsibility; promotes mutual support and interactions.
• Ability to make decisions while analyzing the risks and future impacts of them. Understands how and when to make a choice and how and when to escalate issues to higher levels.
• Must have excellent written and oral skills.
• Strong computer knowledge in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

The Christman family of companies is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.

Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran