Preconstruction & Constructability Manager

Preconstruction & Constructability Manager 

JOB-10047947

Anticipated Start Date

December 7, 2026

Location

Huntsville, AL

Type of Employment

Contract Hire

Employer Info

Our client is a global provider of differentiated professional services and technologies across the asset and program life cycle within the Government Services and Hydrocarbons sectors.

Job Summary

The Preconstruction & Constructability Manager will lead preconstruction planning and constructability activities for a major pharmaceutical manufacturing project. This role is responsible for developing constructability programs, overseeing design reviews, establishing construction execution strategies, and ensuring engineering, procurement, and construction activities are effectively integrated to support safe and efficient project execution.

Job Description

• Develop and implement the project's Constructability Program and governance process.
• Lead formal constructability reviews during conceptual design, FEL, FEED, detailed design, procurement, and execution phases.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary constructability workshops involving engineering, operations, maintenance, CQV, procurement, and construction stakeholders.
• Maintain and manage the Constructability Action Register and ensure timely closure of action items.
• Evaluate design packages for safe and efficient field installation, commissioning, maintenance, and future operational requirements.
• Lead development of construction execution plans and overall site construction strategy.
• Establish construction sequencing, work packaging, and execution philosophies.
• and recommend modularization, prefabrication, and off-site fabrication opportunities.
• Support development of contractor bid packages, construction requirements, and prequalification criteria.
• Support site logistics planning, material flow strategies, and laydown area development.
• Provide owner oversight of EPCM design development to ensure constructability considerations are incorporated.
• Review engineering deliverables for installation efficiency, accessibility, operability, maintainability, and CQV readiness.
• Coordinate engineering-construction interfaces and resolve potential execution conflicts.
• Drive early identification of construction risks and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure constructability considerations are incorporated into GMP manufacturing areas, cleanrooms, HVAC systems, process piping systems, clean utilities, automation systems, laboratories, and warehousing and logistics facilities.
• Support design decisions that facilitate commissioning, qualification, validation, and startup activities.
• Support construction readiness and stage-gate review processes
• Evaluate contractor execution plans, staffing plans, schedules, logistics plans, and construction methodologies.
• Support development of Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) and workface planning strategies.
• Ensure procurement, engineering, and construction milestones are integrated and achievable.
• Identify and manage construction execution risks during all project phases.
• Support project risk workshops and mitigation planning.
• Evaluate impacts of design changes on cost, schedule, safety, quality, and execution.
• Develop contingency plans for critical field execution risks.
• Serve as the primary owner representative for constructability and preconstruction planning activities.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, project controls, construction management, QA/QC, CQV, operations, and contractors.
• Present constructability findings, recommendations, and risk assessments to project leadership.

Skills Required

• 20+ years of industrial construction experience, including leadership roles on large capital projects.
• Minimum 10 years managing preconstruction and constructability programs on large capital projects.
• Demonstrated experience supporting projects greater than $500 million TIC.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, semiconductor, or other highly regulated facilities preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of constructability programs.
• Knowledge of modularization and prefabrication.
• Expertise in construction planning and sequencing.
• Knowledge of Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) methodologies.
• Knowledge of GMP facility construction.
• Knowledge of CQV processes.
• Knowledge of project controls and risk management.
• Knowledge of building systems, utilities, and process equipment installation.
• Experience with EPC, EPCM, and owner-side project delivery models.
• Experience managing preconstruction and constructability programs on large capital projects.
• Experience in industrial construction and large capital project leadership.
• Ability to evaluate construction execution plans, schedules, logistics plans, and construction methodologies.
• Ability to identify construction risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Strong multidisciplinary coordination and stakeholder management skills.

Education/Training/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related technical discipline.

GAS Energy Staffing LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment Decision are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factors protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.