PreConstruction Manager - Power Solutions

PRIMORIS USA • $90K — $120K *
Lewisville, TX 75067In-Person
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
1 month ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-5 years of power delivery engineering or project development experience
  • Direct experience with high-voltage substations, switchyards, or transmission lines
  • Strong understanding of EPC and design-build delivery models
  • Proven leadership of cross-functional teams
  • Technical aptitude to translate design into executable plans
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical project development from intake through bid submission and award
  • Serve as main coordinator across estimating, engineering, procurement, and scheduling
  • Establish timelines for alignment and accountability in project coordination
  • Support reviews of RFPs, technical requirements, and specifications
  • Identify scope gaps, risks, and execution constraints
  • Partner with schedulers to validate project execution plans
  • Lead LNTP handoff meetings to ensure team understanding of project scope

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead high-impact projects in power delivery
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams for enhanced learning
  • Engagement in continuous improvement of processes and standards
  • Development opportunities in technical and leadership skills
  • Potential to significantly influence project outcomes and client satisfaction
Full Job Description
The Preconstruction Manager supports all project development activities for PPS power delivery pursuits, with a primary focus on high-voltage substations, switchyards, and associated transmission scope. This role provides end-to-end technical leadership, serving as a central point of alignment between engineering, estimating, procurement, and scheduling in the development of pursuit deliverables.
The Preconstruction Manager supports the pursuit strategy and drives scope definition, execution planning, and risk management for the project. This position plays a critical role in schedule development, early procurement planning, early works strategy, and the successful transition from bid to execution.
Success in this role is measured by clarity of scope, efficient team coordination, schedule accuracy, strength of risk management, and the ability to support quality proposals that meet the client's technical requirements and expectations.

Key Responsibilities

Pursuit Coordination
  • Drive technical project development for assigned pursuits from initial intake through bid submission and award
  • Serve as a primary coordination point across the internal estimating, engineering, procurement, and scheduling teams
  • Establish timelines to drive alignment and accountability in coordination with estimating, engineering, procurement, and construction to support successful pursuit outcomes

Scope Definition and Risk Management
  • Support detailed reviews of RFPs, technical requirements, drawings, and specifications
  • Identify scope gaps, technical risks, commercial exposure, and execution constraints
  • Drive the development and review of assumptions, clarifications, and exclusions to clearly define the company's risk position
  • Facilitate constructability and value engineering discussions with engineering and execution teams

Schedule and Execution Planning
  • Partner with schedulers to validate engineering, procurement, and construction logic for project schedules
  • Lead development of project execution plans in coordination with project management, estimating, procurement, and construction
  • Lead development of LNTP scopes, early work packages, and cancellation schedules
  • Maintain alignment between bid schedules, LNTP schedules, and execution schedules

Procurement and Vendor Strategy
  • Support procurement planning for critical and long-lead equipment
  • Assist in vendor scope clarification and proposal evaluation
  • Support review of vendor proposals for technical compliance, scope alignment, and risk
  • Consult with procurement to develop mitigation strategies related to lead times, escalation, and availability

Transition to Execution
  • Lead LNTP handoff meetings to ensure project teams fully understand scope, risks, assumptions, and constraints
  • Ensure team project development decisions, commitments, and risk positions are clearly documented and communicated
  • Support early execution planning to enable a smooth and controlled project startup

Continuous Improvement and Standards
  • In coordination with the proposal team, capture lessons learned from wins and losses and incorporate them into future pursuits
  • Support development and refinement of PPS SOPs, templates, and tools
  • Promote consistency, quality, and accountability across all project development deliverables
Required Qualifications
  • 2-5 years of experience in power delivery engineering or project development
  • Direct experience with high-voltage substations, switchyards, or transmission line projects
  • Strong understanding of EPC and design-build delivery models
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive alignment
  • Strong technical aptitude with the ability to translate design and scope into executable plans
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, or a related field
  • Professional engineering license or equivalent technical credential
  • Experience supporting LNTP strategies and early procurement planning
  • Familiarity with utility-scale renewable interconnections and grid infrastructure
  • Experience working with integrated pursuit schedules using Primavera P6
  • Demonstrated success supporting complex, multi-disciplinary pursuits
Core Competencies
  • Ownership mentality and accountability for outcomes
  • Ability to bring clarity to incomplete or evolving information
  • Strong judgment in balancing risk, cost, schedule, and constructability
  • Collaborative approach that strengthens team performance
  • Attention to detail with strong big-picture awareness

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