Pre-Construction Manager (Commercial Construction)
About the Role
Spartan Contracting Corporation is seeking a Pre-Construction Manager to lead the estimating and pre-construction phase of commercial projects. If you’re a driven pre-construction professional who enjoys building winning strategies and reliable budgets across banking, retail, healthcare, and restaurant projects, we’d love to hear from you. You will oversee budgets, bid coordination, scope development, value engineering, and proposal support from early pursuit through handoff to Operations. This role partners closely with our Business Development and Project Management teams to help win work and set projects up for success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead pre-construction efforts for multiple commercial pursuits at once.
- Prepare accurate conceptual and detailed estimates (ROM through GMP).
- Perform quantity takeoffs and develop pricing models.
- Coordinate subcontractor bidding, follow-ups, and bid leveling.
- Identify scope gaps, risks, exclusions, and assumptions.
- Develop value engineering options aligned with client goals.
- Support proposal development with clear scope narratives and pricing backups.
- Collaborate with internal teams and design partners on constructability reviews.
- Create preliminary project schedules and phasing/logistics plans when needed.
- Deliver complete pre-construction handoff packages to project teams after award.
- Maintain estimating templates, historical cost data, and benchmarking.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of pre-construction, estimating, or related commercial construction experience.
- Strong understanding of commercial building systems, drawings, and specifications.
- Experience preparing conceptual budgets and detailed estimates.
- Knowledge of delivery methods (Design-Build, CM at Risk, Design-Bid-Build).
- Skilled in subcontractor outreach, bid comparison, and scope review.
- Proficient in estimating/takeoff tools (Bluebeam, Excel, or similar software).
- Strong communication skills and ability to present estimates to leadership/clients.
- Organized, detail-oriented, and able to meet tight pursuit deadlines.
Preferred (Nice to Have)
- Experience leading value engineering sessions.
- Familiarity with Procore or similar construction management platforms.
- Local subcontractor/vendor network in the Southeast.
About Spartan
All Spartan employees will promise the same thing: deliver on time and on budget. This should be a given throughout the industry. But for Spartan, it's so much more than that. We're passionate about being a real partner and we are a team in the truest sense. To put it plainly, we CARE - about our clients, about our staff, and about the work we do. This business didn't build itself overnight and it certainly wasn't built by just one person. This has always been and will continue to be a team effort. We know that we are only as strong as our weakest link, which is why we foster competition, goals, and growth from within. We're the people you want to call when you need something done right. We always aim for bigger and better, so we can guarantee that there is only one direction for Spartan -- UP!
Fringe Benefits:
- Company paid Life & Short Term Disability
- Health and Dental Insurance
- Matching 401k beginning 1st Paycheck
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Company iPhone & Laptop
- Annual Christmas Bonus
- Annual Bonus based on Spartan Profits
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to conditions that include weather such as heat and / or humidity and cold, fumes or airborne particles, exposure to dust and asphalt, and moving mechanical parts. There may be occasional exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals. Conditions can also include the risk of electrical shock and risk of vibration. The noise level in the work environment can often be loud.
This position is regularly required to:
- Walk, climb stairs, site and stand
- Talk and hear at normal levels.
- See with close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and have the ability to adjust focus.
- Reach with hands and arms.
- Use hands and fingers to operate computer equipment and business machines
- Lift and / or move up to 20 lbs.
Welcoming Diversity
At Spartan, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age disability, or other characteristics protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any of these characteristics.
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