Pre Construction Manager

Role Overview Our client delivers fit-out and refurbishment projects across healthcare, mental healthcare, education and commercial office environments, frequently within occupied buildings. Projects typically range from £5,000 to £2.5 million, with varying procurement routes and contractor design responsibilities.

As Pre-Construction Manager, you will lead the operational planning input into competitive tenders and develop direct-award schemes collaboratively with clients. You will translate project requirements, surveys and design information into practical delivery strategies, detailed programmes and logistics plans.

Working with estimating, commercial, design and operational colleagues, you will align scope, cost, programme and delivery assumptions. Your principal output will be a clear, coordinated and executable project plan, reviewed with the delivery team before handover, with outstanding matters explicitly recorded and allocated.

In this role, you will support the following objectives: Deliver a better construction journey Create positive experiences and outcomes Continuously improve ways of working Work collaboratively across the team Key Responsibilities Competitive tenders: Review tender information and develop construction methodologies, programmes, logistics proposals and operational content for quality submissions and tender interviews.

Direct-award schemes: Work with clients to establish briefs, scope boundaries, priorities and constraints; coordinate surveys, options, design inputs and cost development through agreed decision points. Site surveys: Attend and coordinate site visits, recording existing conditions, access, occupancy, services interfaces and information gaps; arrange specialist investigations where required.

Detailed programmes: Produce and maintain programmes covering design, approvals, procurement, mobilisation, construction, commissioning and handover, with dependencies, critical activities, milestones and realistic durations.

Logistics plans: Prepare clear drawings and supporting plans covering access, deliveries, storage, welfare, waste, segregation, emergency routes and phased site arrangements. Occupied buildings: Develop phasing and continuity proposals addressing decanting, shutdowns, noise, dust, safeguarding and infection prevention, with client and specialist input where needed.

Risk and opportunity: Maintain project-specific registers, assess cost and programme implications, allocate actions and incorporate agreed mitigation and opportunities into the delivery plan. Buildability: Challenge sequencing and design proposals with operational teams and specialists; identify temporary works requirements and coordinate appropriate specialist input.

Cost alignment: Provide estimating and commercial teams with resource, duration, preliminar...

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