Preconstruction Manager

You may not know our name, but you know our products. What we make is part the places where we live, work and play – all day, everyday.

Zekelman is a family of companies — 100% domestic manufacturers — with a legacy dating back to 1877. We’re proud to be the largest independent steel pipe and tube manufacturer in North America and the leading innovator in multi-family housing development.

We believe in what we build and what we build, builds the world around us. Hospitals, hotels, schools, bridges, airports and more.

Come build a career you believe in.

About the Role
As a Pre-Construction Manager at Z Modular, a division of Zekelman Industries, you will play a key role in coordinating all pre-construction activities to ensure projects move efficiently from design through site mobilization. This position requires strong project management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with subcontractors, internal teams, and external partners. You will directly contribute to successful project delivery by establishing qualified trade networks, managing bidding processes, and preparing project information needed to support seamless execution.

You will collaborate with design, engineering, project management, purchasing, and site construction teams to ensure all required information, materials, and subcontractor resources are aligned prior to groundbreaking. This is an on-site role located at the appropriate Z Modular location.

This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a fast-paced construction environment, enjoys problem-solving, and excels in coordinating multiple priorities simultaneously.

What You’ll Do

• Managing the Preconstruction process for our clients, including producing iterative budgets, coordinating project teams internally and externally, providing guidance to owners and design teams during design development, value engineering projects to meet client budgets, coordinating work with our operations personnel, and lead a group of estimators through the bid process.

• Organizing and leading a team of estimators to work on bids.

• Working directly with owners and architects throughout pre-construction and contract award

• Preparing a conceptual estimate with minimal information.

• Buying out and awarding subcontracts.

• Effectively communicating, organizing, and managing their time and resources

• Produce budgets for various projects. This includes quantity takeoffs, obtaining subcontractor input, using applicable historical pricing information, properly qualifying the proposal, and presenting the budget to our client.

• Prepare conceptual and detailed budgets from all levels of documents ranging from napkin sketches, schematic design, design development, and a bid set of documents.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously in different stages of development.

• Lead teams of estimators during the bid process, ensuring proper coverage of the scope of work and taking responsibility for bid dates, compiling bid information on bid day, properly qualifying the project, and compiling the proposal for the client.

• Lead the bid team in making sure that the appropriate trades and, more importantly, the appropriate Subcontractors within those trades are being targeted for pricing to ensure proper bid coverage is obtained.

• Review the bid set of documents and identify critical components of the Project that need focus from the bid team as well as operations to make sure proper planning is performed during the bid. This includes meeting with operations and discussing phasing, logistics, and overall construction sequence for the Project.

• Maintain contacts in the industry and keep apprised of market conditions that may affect

• Lead the buyout process once a project is awarded.

• Review Subcontract scopes of work prepared by the bid team to make sure the scopes are complete and there are no gaps between trades during the buyout process.

• Lead and promote healthy and safe work practices as required by regulatory agencies and company policy.

• Other duties as assigned by management.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of commercial construction project management experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in Building Science preferred.

• Ability to travel to Z Modular production and project sites across the U.S. (minimum twice per month, up to once per week as needed).

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced construction and manufacturing environment where upfront planning is essential.

• Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities.

• Ability to meet all physical requirements, including standing for extended periods, lifting up to 10 lbs., and performing work in a plant or construction environment.

• Regular, full-time, predictable on-site attendance per posted schedule.

What You’ll Get
Zekelman Industries offers competitive compensation and excellent benefits, including low-cost, high-quality medical and dental coverage. Additional benefits include:

• Competitive Compensation

• Bonus Plan & Profit-Sharing Opportunities

• 401(k) with Company Match

• Comprehensive Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Tuition Assistance Program

• Paid Vacation & Holidays

• Employee Loyalty Awards

Zekelman Industries offers competitive compensation and excellent benefits, including low-cost, high-quality medical and dental benefits. In addition, we have an amazing tuition assistance program, a bonus plan, a 401(k) plan with a generous company match, immediate vesting, and much more.

M/F/D/V

We are Zekelman Industries.

We manufacture superior quality tubular and related products, and provide outstanding service for our valued customers.

We seek to continuously advance the skills and opportunities of our employees, utilizing the latest technology and management tools available to consistently increase profitability and the enterprise value of Zekelman Industries and of our customers.