Meta is seeking a construction professional to join our design, engineering, and construction organization as a Preconstruction Manager. You will collaborate closely with our leadership, site development and delivery teams to manage projects from site diligence to design kick off through break ground on site and GMP execution. The Preconstruction Manager will be extremely familiar with procurement, budgets, scheduling, constructability, and negotiation of large-scale mission critical projects.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for successful execution of large-scale commercial agreements with external partners from site diligence through construction start, including coordination of multiple team inputs, evaluation and allocation of risk, and incorporation of commercially responsible terms into construction contracts. Provide continued preconstruction subject matter expertise throughout life of the construction execution phase
- Lead program management alignment of multiple projects in preconstruction phase, including programmatic cost, schedule, and risk comparison, and alignment of implementation and constructability approaches across several internal stakeholder teams
- Manage reporting of project status, risk, budget, and schedule guidance including reporting key performance indicators for projects in the preconstruction / planning stage and presenting to leadership
- Provide “bid levelling” to analyze prospective external partner responses by analyzing proposal to ensure scope of work is complete and pricing information is accurate including providing recommendation of successful bidder
- Interface with Engineering to develop scope criteria, budgets and schedules for new products and projects
- Support our build strategy including supply chain analysis, vendor selection and developing a roadmap for procurement and contracts models for new programs
- Lead the development of new processes and tooling as required to support new or existing initiatives as required by the business and operationalize new processes to support new initiatives or improve existing workflows
- Provide constructability perspective and input into new initiatives or ideas and influence implementation plan or provide critical considerations to be accounted for in TCO analysis
- Maintain industry connections and develop database of prequalified external partners / potential new partners for design, engineering, and construction services
- Fully account for implications of change management within our organization support execution team in change evaluation from a preconstruction and commercial accountability perspective. Drive feedback loop efforts to incorporate change mitigation strategies into future design or agreements
- Partner with Contracts Management team to ensure partners are delivering under the proper agreements with the correct commercial terms
- Lead and influence stakeholders on high impact initiatives across our delivery organization and broader design/engineering and construction teams to de-risk project delivery (i.e., labor availability / productivity, competition for talent.)
- Manage and respond to a high volume of daily interaction with cross-functional partners both inside and outside the company
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, or equivalent technical degree and/or minimum of ten (10) years direct professional experience in Commercial Management, Construction Management or equivalent
- Demonstrated communication and coordination skills to lead a team towards a single project outcome
- Familiar with large capital programs, ground-up construction and greenfield site development as well as retrofit construction
- Proficiency in all aspects of Site Selection/Diligence, Preconstruction: Budget Development, Scheduling, Change Management, Risk Management, Negotiation, etc
- Demonstrated understanding and perspective of construction schedules, costs, supply chain analysis, risk analysis, labor markets, project cash flows and commercial contract terms and contract delivery methods
- General contractor and / or trade contractor experience including field and office Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Mission Critical/ Data Center experience is preferred in addition to hyperscale builds
- International development experience is preferred