Preconstruction Director – Industrial Power Projects

Job Description

Preconstruction Director – Industrial Construction | McCarthy Building Companies

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at McCarthy Building Companies. McCarthy specializes in constructing complex industrial projects, particularly within the Power Market. This Director-level position is crucial as it provides strategic leadership and oversight of all preconstruction services, from initial pursuit through design, estimation, and commercial alignment, ensuring a seamless transition into the construction phase. The role is vital in establishing early project success and maintaining key relationships with owners, designers, and partners.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Not specified in listing
• Mission: Lead and oversee all preconstruction services for industrial projects within the Power Market, ensuring project viability, successful commercial alignment, and a smooth transition into construction.
• Tech Stack: Building Information Modeling (BIM), estimating and preconstruction software programs

What You’ll Actually Do
• Estimate Leadership: Lead cost analysis and estimate coordination, including developing and reviewing trade takeoffs and internal pricing for self-perform work across civil, structural, concrete, steel erection, carpentry, equipment installation, process piping, and related industrial scopes.
• Bidding and Procurement: Develop and execute subcontractor bidding strategies, overseeing solicitation, bid leveling, scope review, bid evaluation, and coordination of bid packaging efforts while interfacing with the bidding community and design partners.
• Strategic Project Development: Partner with operations, design integration, VDC, procurement, and MEP teams to formulate executable project strategies that align pricing, schedule, staffing, self-perform opportunities, and delivery approach.
• Risk and Value Management: Review project documents and OEM information to identify scope, risk elements, constructability concerns, and commercial impacts, suggesting value alternatives and managing estimate assumptions, exclusions, and opportunities.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a primary day-to-day contact for owners, design teams, and OEM partners during preconstruction, building and maintaining relationships to support business development and competitive advantage.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management or Engineering, or 15+ years in preconstruction, estimating, design integration, construction management, operations, or project delivery. This is a Director-level role.
• Experience: 15+ years of experience in the construction industry with an emphasis on preconstruction, including a minimum of 5 years in a management capacity. Proven experience managing large-scale preconstruction efforts with a focus on industrial, process, EPC, or power projects.
• Skills: In-depth knowledge of construction principles and practices, strong leadership in both self-perform and subcontracted estimating efforts, ability to manage multiple estimating teams concurrently, excellent follow-up and open-issues resolution, and effective communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
• Bonus: Proven experience with self-perform disciplines including civil, structural, process mechanical, piping, and equipment setting. Experience dealing with subcontracts, subcontractors, vendors, OEM stakeholders, and design partners. Proficiency in Building Information Modeling (BIM) and related estimating and preconstruction software programs.