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Preconstruction Manager
RK Industries, LLCUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Jun 2025
About the role
RK Company Overview As a second-generation, family-owned enterprise, RK Industries, LLC (RK) offers a diverse range of construction, manufacturing, advanced fabrication and building services. Led by Rick and Jon Kinning, RK represents seven distinct lines of business that work together to provide seamless project collaboration. Our exclusive building methodologies, accredited safety standards and professional execution allow us to turn our customers’ greatest concepts into reality.
Position and Responsibilities Overview
Position and Responsibilities Overview
- Work closely with Sales team on open opportunities to understand the opportunity, scope of work and generate timely estimates for sales proposals.
- Evaluate project opportunities for technical, financial and logistical risks.
- Develop and manage estimating and proposal schedules.
- Ability to create conceptual designs and rough order of magnitude estimates to meet customer requests.
- Lead, train, and develop the Preconstruction team members.
- Develop schematic design and design development estimates with Sales and Preconstruction team members.
- Lead and perform opportunity intake and documentation functions.
- Guide scope and bid development through bid closing functions.
- Ensure plans and specifications comply with budget and accepted VE and Trends.
- Document opportunity scope of work and ensure compliance with budget, value engineering, and trends.
- Key contributor for estimating meetings.
- Drive estimates to completion to meet bid due dates.
- Keep records of meeting minutes for opportunity development, design and preconstruction phases.
- Help manage CRM data for open opportunities.
- Ensure sales opportunity plans and specifications are updated and complete on the company server.
- Work with external stakeholders during the preconstruction phase.
- Take a lead role in the formulation of scope narratives.
- Manage customer feedback and interaction during proposal phase of project.
- Help build strong customer relations and repeat business.
- Provide engineering assistance as requested to the Operations team during construction.
- College/university graduate in business, engineering or science or 10+ years equivalent combination of skills and experience generally required.
- 5+ years leading estimating and/or preconstruction projects in a mechanical, plumbing or water treatment environment.
- Participates in company business strategy development and execution.
- Participates in decisions and recommendations having impact on preconstruction related activities of the company.
- Demonstrates creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing and guiding the preconstruction process.
- College/university graduate in business, engineering or science or 10+ years equivalent combination of skills and experience generally required.
- 5+ years leading estimating and/or large scale preconstruction projects in a mechanical, plumbing or water treatment environment.
- Participates in business related issues with top-level employees and officers.
- Strongly participates in company business strategy development and execution.
- Participates in decisions and recommendations having impact on preconstruction related activities of the company.
- Demonstrates creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in planning, organizing and guiding the preconstruction process.
- College/university graduate in business, engineering or science or 10+ years equivalent combination of skills and experience generally required.
- 5+ years leading estimating and/or large scale preconstruction projects in a mechanical, plumbing or water treatment environment.
- Engages and negotiates critical business related issues with top-level employees and officers.
- Participates at a senior level in company business strategy development and execution.
- Makes informed dec
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