Preconstruction Project Coordinator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in South Africa.

📋 Description

• Evaluate architectural, structural, civil, MEP, and consultant drawings to pinpoint coordination challenges, missing details, scope discrepancies, and constructability issues prior to their impact in the field.

• Create trade-specific RFPs, bid packages, scope sheets, subcontract exhibits, and precise subcontractor scope language in alignment with project documentation.

• Identify suitable subcontractors and vendors, distribute bid packages, manage follow-ups, and ensure proposals progress to completion.

• Analyze subcontractor bids, reconcile exclusions and qualifications, and formulate clear recommendations to assist leadership in making informed award decisions.

• Confirm construction costs through market analysis, historical pricing, material quotes, subcontractor insights, and practical cost evaluations.

• Discover value-engineering opportunities that minimize cost or schedule risks without unduly compromising quality or design objectives.

• Draft RFIs and coordinate unresolved questions with designers, consultants, subcontractors, vendors, and internal construction leadership.

• Aid in project budgets, procurement schedules, tracking long-lead items, trade cost summaries, allowances, contingencies, general conditions, and known risk elements.

• Compile organized project handoff packages ensuring the superintendent and field team receive clear scopes, drawings, assumptions, and decision histories.

• As the role evolves, assist ongoing projects by managing RFI, submittal, procurement, design coordination, budget, change-order, meeting, closeout, and action-item logs.

⛳️ Requirements

• **Must-Have:**

• - 5+ years of experience in construction preconstruction, estimating, project engineering, or project management.

• - Strong capability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, scopes of work, and trade sequencing.

• - Experience in preparing bid packages, leveling proposals, identifying scope gaps, and drafting clear scope narratives.

• - Ability to review multiple drawing disciplines for coordination, completeness, constructability, and risk assessment.

• - Excellent written communication skills for RFIs, bid instructions, subcontractor correspondence, meeting notes, and leadership summaries.

• - Working knowledge of project budgets, procurement processes, schedules, RFIs, submittals, change management, and construction documentation.

• - Comfort working independently in a remote environment while remaining highly responsive, organized, and accountable.

• **Nice to Have:**

• - 7–10 years of construction experience with a demonstrated track record of managing bid packages, scope development, budgeting, coordination, and project controls.

• - Familiarity with Bluebeam, Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, estimating software, or scheduling tools.

• - Experience in supporting restaurant tenant improvements, commercial renovations, façade work, utility upgrades, mixed-use projects, ADUs, or ground-up construction.

• - Understanding of the Los Angeles construction markets, subcontractor pricing, permitting requirements, or local trade conditions.

• - Experience in reviewing subcontractor change-order requests and compiling supporting documentation for leadership review.

🏝️ Benefits

• Access to a **$200K+ perk marketplace** with discounts on over 150 global services.

• - Option to **withdraw up to 50% of approved earnings** before payday.