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Are you a dynamic operations leader who excels in high-performance, fast-paced environments? We are actively seeking a Preconstruction Operations Manager in Edmonton, Alberta, to take complete ownership of our pre-construction department's operating system. Reporting directly to the President, you will be the driving force behind ensuring every ...
project pursuit is meticulously tracked, appropriately resourced, and delivered on schedule. This role isn't just about managing workflows; it's about engineering disciplined processes, fostering accountability across design and estimating teams, and thriving in a setting where priorities shift daily. If you hate bureaucracy, adapt quickly to change, and love executing with precision, this is the arena for you. Advantages Impactful Leadership: Act as a pivotal leader shaping the culture, strategy, and operational flow of a high-performing pre-construction department. Agile Environment: Work in a fast-paced, results-oriented setting that values critical thinking, rapid execution, and direct impact over bureaucratic red tape. Executive Exposure: Maintain a direct line of communication and collaboration with executive leadership to shape departmental direction and capacity. Process Ownership: Gain the opportunity to build, scale, and define workflow systems from the ground up, leaving a lasting mark on the company's operational efficiency. Dynamic Day-to-Day: Enjoy a highly engaging role where you are empowered to make agile decisions, reallocate resources dynamically, and champion continuous improvement. Responsibilities Act as the ultimate gatekeeper for the project pipeline board, ensuring it remains the accurate, real-time source of truth for all pursuits, deliverables, and ownership. Drive regular workload and capacity planning sessions to effectively deploy drafting and estimating personnel based on shifting daily priorities. Champion the development and enforcement of standardized workflows, document control systems, checklists, and handover protocols across the department. Actively participate in strategic pipeline meetings to document pivotal decisions, establish critical priorities, and lock in delivery timelines. Anticipate future resource bottlenecks by forecasting team capacity, evaluating skill gaps, and advising executive leadership on strategic hiring needs. Guarantee that all new leads are systematically captured and assigned to an internal owner within one business day. Monitor and enforce strict turnaround schedules spanning from the initial Basis of Design (BOD) through to the final proposal issuance. Provide comprehensive mentorship and direct management for the pre-construction staff, handling performance evaluations, onboarding, and continuous professional development. Generate and present detailed operational metrics and KPI reports to the executive team to highlight departmental performance and areas for optimization. Qualifications Proven professional background in operational management, resource allocation, or project coordination. Demonstrated leadership capabilities, ideally within the engineering or construction sectors, with a knack for keeping technical teams aligned and accountable. Post-secondary education (degree or diploma) in Construction Management, Business, Engineering, or a related technological field is highly preferred. Exceptional analytical skills with a proven history of mapping workflows, designing scalable processes, and implementing robust reporting structures. Tech-savvy with working knowledge of industry platforms such as Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Yardi, and Building Connected is considered a strong asset. Highly adaptable and resilient; able to seamlessly pivot when project scopes, timelines, or business priorities change unexpectedly without dropping the ball. Exceptional communication skills, capable of synthesizing complex data from various channels and relaying it clearly to cross-functional stakeholders. An entrepreneurial, self-driven mindset with a relentless focus on continuous process improvement and execution. Summary This role is tailor-made for a process-obsessed, execution-oriented leader who wants to drive the operational heartbeat of a thriving pre-construction team. If you are ready to ditch the red tape, take true ownership of resource management, and scale systems that directly impact business growth, we want you at the helm to keep our projects moving forward. If you match the qualifications for the role with Canadian experience please email [redacted]. Only qualified candidates matching the listed criteria will be contacted.
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Are you a dynamic operations leader who excels in high-performance, fast-paced environments? We are actively seeking a Preconstruction Operations Manager in Edmonton, Alberta, to take complete ownership of our pre-construction department's operating system. Reporting directly to the President, you will be the driving force behind ensuring every project pursuit is meticulously tracked, appropriately resourced, and delivered on schedule. This role isn't just about managing workflows; it's about engineering disciplined processes, fostering accountability across design and estimating teams, and thriving in a setting where priorities shift daily. If you hate bureaucracy, adapt quickly to change, and love executing with precision, this is the arena for you. Advantages Impactful Leadership: Act as a pivotal leader shaping the culture, strategy, and operational flow of a high-performing pre-construction department. Agile Environment: Work in a fast-paced, results-oriented setting that values critical thinking, rapid execution, and direct impact over bureaucratic red tape. Executive Exposure: Maintain a direct line of communication and collaboration with executive leadership to shape departmental direction and capacity. ...
Process Ownership: Gain the opportunity to build, scale, and define workflow systems from the ground up, leaving a lasting mark on the company's operational efficiency. Dynamic Day-to-Day: Enjoy a highly engaging role where you are empowered to make agile decisions, reallocate resources dynamically, and champion continuous improvement. Responsibilities Act as the ultimate gatekeeper for the project pipeline board, ensuring it remains the accurate, real-time source of truth for all pursuits, deliverables, and ownership. Drive regular workload and capacity planning sessions to effectively deploy drafting and estimating personnel based on shifting daily priorities. Champion the development and enforcement of standardized workflows, document control systems, checklists, and handover protocols across the department. Actively participate in strategic pipeline meetings to document pivotal decisions, establish critical priorities, and lock in delivery timelines. Anticipate future resource bottlenecks by forecasting team capacity, evaluating skill gaps, and advising executive leadership on strategic hiring needs. Guarantee that all new leads are systematically captured and assigned to an internal owner within one business day. Monitor and enforce strict turnaround schedules spanning from the initial Basis of Design (BOD) through to the final proposal issuance. Provide comprehensive mentorship and direct management for the pre-construction staff, handling performance evaluations, onboarding, and continuous professional development. Generate and present detailed operational metrics and KPI reports to the executive team to highlight departmental performance and areas for optimization. Qualifications Proven professional background in operational management, resource allocation, or project coordination. Demonstrated leadership capabilities, ideally within the engineering or construction sectors, with a knack for keeping technical teams aligned and accountable. Post-secondary education (degree or diploma) in Construction Management, Business, Engineering, or a related technological field is highly preferred. Exceptional analytical skills with a proven history of mapping workflows, designing scalable processes, and implementing robust reporting structures. Tech-savvy with working knowledge of industry platforms such as Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Yardi, and Building Connected is considered a strong asset. Highly adaptable and resilient; able to seamlessly pivot when project scopes, timelines, or business priorities change unexpectedly without dropping the ball. Exceptional communication skills, capable of synthesizing complex data from various channels and relaying it clearly to cross-functional stakeholders. An entrepreneurial, self-driven mindset with a relentless focus on continuous process improvement and execution. Summary This role is tailor-made for a process-obsessed, execution-oriented leader who wants to drive the operational heartbeat of a thriving pre-construction team. If you are ready to ditch the red tape, take true ownership of resource management, and scale systems that directly impact business growth, we want you at the helm to keep our projects moving forward. If you match the qualifications for the role with Canadian experience please email [redacted]. Only qualified candidates matching the listed criteria will be contacted.
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