Strategic Focus Jobs in Decatur, GA (NOW HIRING)

Role Overview 

As the Sr. Director of PreConstruction, you'll lead the full preconstruction program across a diverse multifamily development portfolio, with a strategic focus on thirdparty growth, new development, and market expansion. You'll set enterprisewide preconstruction strategy, drive work acquisition, and influence project outcomes from concept through GMP-partnering closely with executive leadership, ownership groups, and crossfunctional teams to ensure financial discipline, technical excellence, and scalable growth. 

PreConstruction Strategy, Financial Leadership & Estimating 

• Lead the endtoend preconstruction process across all projects, including conceptual, schematic, design development, and preGMP estimating. 

• Establish and oversee preconstruction standards, cost models, and estimating methodologies to support portfolio growth and thirdparty work. 

• Direct development, refinement, and governance of all preconstruction budgets, including general conditions, allowances, contingencies, and valueengineering strategies. 

• Implement disciplined costcontrol systems that ensure transparent, datadriven, and defensible financial decisions. 

• Review and present executivelevel variance analyses highlighting scope changes, market conditions, pricing shifts, and financial impacts. 

• Deliver monthly portfoliolevel cost analysis and financial reporting to senior leadership and ownership. 

• Guide contract and procurement strategy, including bid leveling, scope alignment, subcontractor engagement, and early trade partner involvement. 

Executive Leadership, Growth & Client Engagement 

• Serve as a senior leader in work acquisition efforts, owner interviews, pursuits, and thirdparty development opportunities. 

• Partner with executive leadership to shape divisional strategy, annual business plans, staffing models, and longterm growth initiatives. 

• Act as a primary preconstruction liaison to owners, developers, lenders, and investment partners. 

• Drive alignment across Development, Design, Operations, Finance, and external consultants on scope, schedule, risk, and budget. 

• Influence early project decisions to optimize feasibility, returns, constructability, and schedule certainty. 

• Proactively identify and escalate risks related to entitlement, site conditions, design gaps, procurement, market volatility, or execution strategy. 

Technical Oversight, Design Leadership & Risk Management 

• Lead highlevel design and constructability reviews to ensure cost alignment, scope clarity, and compliance with brand, code, and performance standards. 

• Oversee technical due diligence efforts, including site logistics, phasing, geotechnical conditions, utilities, and infrastructure coordination. 

• Manage and direct external consultants (ADA, envelope, geotechnical, MEP, specialty advisors) to ensure technical accuracy and value alignment. 

• Provide strategic guidance on early procurement, escalation assumptions, labor and material trends, and subcontractor market conditions. 

• Ensure all preconstruction deliverables-estimates, schedules, narratives, design comments, and risk logs-are complete, consistent, and aligned with project objectives. 

Qualifications 

• 10+ years of progressive preconstruction and construction leadership experience; multifamily and/or hospitality experience strongly preferred. 

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, Building Science, Business Management, or a related field. 

• Proven expertise in estimating, cost control, procurement strategy, scheduling, and design coordination at a portfolio or enterprise level. 

• Strong understanding of contract law, project accounting, and the full development lifecycle. 

• High proficiency in preconstruction and construction technology (e.g., Timberline, OnScreen Takeoff, Bluebeam, Procore, MS Office). 

• Executivelevel communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence owners, partners, and senior leadership. 

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects while maintaining strategic focus and financial rigor. 

• Willingness to travel as needed.