Construction Estimator & Project Manager

Are you a natural-born leader who loves numbers and managing hard-working teams? Are you a seasoned veteran of the construction industry with expansive and thorough knowledge of Remodeling and General Construction Best Practices from the ground up, who has exceptional Administrative, Organizational, and Communications skills with an overall positive and optimistic outlook on your work and life? We want you to be part of our team.

Our residential Design Build construction company needs an experienced construction estimator/project manager to serve as a bridge between our sales team and production teams in estimating and supervising our projects to ensure they are completed according to our high standards for excellence, finished on time, and on budget. Job seekers should love to problem-solve, delegate effectively, and have excellent communication skills, both oral and written. If you’re looking for a role where you can produce a successful project from beginning to end, this is the job for you. Apply today!

$75,000 - $100,000 yearly plus performance bonus

Estimating

• Assisting the sales department in producing Opinions of Probable Cost for potential projects under consideration.
• Once Conceptual Designs are available, the Estimator produces a Preliminary Budget and written Specifications for the project and submits them to the Sales team for accuracy.
• Producing a comprehensive estimate and drafting final specifications for each project. This will involve all hard costs for the company as well as securing bids from all required trade partners.
• Managing the estimating database, including pricing on materials and negotiations with trade partners prior to job start and issuance of subcontracts/work orders, including tracking and follow-up on RFI’s and submittals.
• Managing the Change Order process, including the estimate, writing up the changes, and ensuring that the Homeowner signs the Change Order before the work is done.

Project Management

• Once a Construction Agreement has been sold, the Project Manager will field-check the job, re-checking all costs, and will set up the job for construction.
• This position will involve being on the job site frequently, if not daily, and certainly at key times for project coordination, problem solving, and guidance of our other employees and trade partners so that projects are executed with excellence, on time, and on/under budget according to the Scope of Work in the Agreement.
• The Project Manager reports to the Owner, providing a weekly production assessment including progress on each job, percentage of completion, projected cash flow, and estimated gross profit.
• The Production Manager oversees all company vehicles, tools, and equipment, ensuring their maintenance in good operating condition. This responsibility may be delegated.

• Personal integrity is of the utmost importance. This position involves inside knowledge of company operations, finances, and proprietary information. Confidentiality is expected.
• A proactive, flexible, team player and effective motivator/team builder who is comfortable taking on a leadership role in a small company environment while wearing multiple hats. You will be a teacher and mentor to younger, less experienced field employees.
• Fosters an optimistic, enthusiastic, and creative "can-do" attitude, and shares the responsibility for the Company's success in reaching its goals, including support and nurture of the culture of our organization with other employees, clients, subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Highly motivated self-starter with outstanding skills: leadership skills, problem-solving skills, time management skills, organizational skills, and communications skills, both verbal and written, who is able to develop rapport quickly with a variety of people and maintain sophisticated client relationships.
• The successful candidate will have extensive and expansive experience, ten years minimum, in Residential Remodeling and/or Custom Home Building, with experience in profitably estimating a variety of residential remodeling projects and the ability to anticipate potential problems well in advance so that a solution can be in place before a crisis develops.
• Intuitive ability to understand architectural intent and work through low levels of detail, the ability to read and interpret architectural plans, details, and specifications to produce accurate and thorough take-offs. Ability to see in three dimensions from two-dimensional data.
• Strong general math skills (algebra and geometry) to facilitate calculation of necessary job equations: area, volume, angles, pitch, diameter, circumference, and square footage, etc.
• Has a full range of computer literacy, and is able to process and organize a variety of data, including estimating in an automated software system utilizing a database, proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook (Email). Familiarity and experience with Chief Architect or the aptitude to learn it quickly.
• Industry certifications and/or a Degree in Business Administration, Architecture, or Project Management, or equivalent experience.
• Physical abilities essential to the job include the ability to walk, talk, and hear. There may be regular demands that physically require the employee to be able to lift and carry at least 80 pounds. The employee must be able to see and focus clearly both at a distance and close up.
• Employee will be subject to and must be able to work in a variety of climates, including the extremes of the outdoor environment in both summer and winter.
• Employee must be able to operate a motor vehicle to and from the office and job site.

The award-winning Master's Design Build Group is a family-owned, full-service Design Build Remodeling and General Contractor serving residential and commercial clients in Bucks and Montgomery County, PA, and the suburban Philadelphia region. The Leadership, Communication, and Attention to Detail we provide throughout our thoughtful Project Design and Development Process enable us to effectively serve as trusted advisors for clients and empower us to consistently demonstrate superior craftsmanship from the start of their project until the finishing touches.

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