Preconstruction and Constructability Manager

Talascend is currently seeking a Preconstruction and Constructability Manager for a contract opportunity with our client in Huntsville, Alabama.

Overview

Oversee preconstruction and constructability activities for a major pharmaceutical manufacturing project. Provide leadership across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification, suppliers, and inspectors to help ensure construction activities meet project specifications, GMP requirements, industry standards, and regulatory expectations.

Responsibilities

• 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 the constructability action register and ensure timely closure of action items.
• Evaluate design packages to ensure safe and efficient field installation, commissioning, maintenance, and future operational requirements.
• Lead development of construction execution plans and the overall site construction strategy.
• Establish construction sequencing, work packaging, and execution philosophies.
• Evaluate and recommend modularization, prefabrication, and off-site fabrication opportunities.
• Support the 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 and 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 and workface planning strategies.
• Ensure procurement, engineering, and construction milestones are integrated and achievable.
• Identify and manage construction execution risks throughout all project phases.
• Support project risk workshops and mitigation planning.
• Evaluate the 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.
• Interface with engineering, procurement, project controls, construction management, QA/QC, CQV, operations, and contractors.
• Present constructability findings, recommendations, and risk assessments to project leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, architecture, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 20 years of industrial construction experience, including leadership roles on large capital projects.
• At least 10 years of experience managing preconstruction and constructability programs on large capital projects.
• Demonstrated experience supporting projects greater than $500 million TIC.
• Experience with EPC, EPCM, and owner-side project delivery models.
• Advanced knowledge of constructability programs, modularization and prefabrication, construction planning and sequencing, advanced work packaging methodologies, GMP facility construction, CQV processes, project controls and risk management, and building systems, utilities, and process equipment installation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, semiconductor, or other highly regulated facilities.