ELECTRICAL ESTIMATOR: HONEST FORTHRIGHT SUCCESS Job in Fairfax, Virginia US
ELECTRICAL ESTIMATOR: HONEST FORTHRIGHT SUCCESS
The firm is a niche business managed with all the leadership quality and cutting edge tools used by the nation’s largest constructors. What makes this position a virtual lottery victory for the right person is the solidity of business model and the way you will be treated PERSONALLY. The company has evolved a specialty capabilities and client base that goes along with those specialty capabilities that has very limited competition. The path to enter the company business model is too long and path to qualify is both expensive, difficult and long as well. The ROI model for almost any constructor starting down the road we have taken has impossible obstacles. The Company was in the right place at the right time, but to its credit, managed those opportunities perfectly.
With a focus on selecting right-fit work and systematizing for maximum efficiency, the Company has been able to afford to choose the best possible staff, and has been generous enough to keep the best possible staff. While the company offers competitive salaries, we are a big bonus culture. You make money for the company; you share a remarkable piece of the action in an open book management culture. This sharing culture has allowed the company to choose the best of the best. At the risk of being boastful or imperious: there is no second string here. Every employee in every functional position and in every department is all the best in the industry. There is no B team here.
The position is a select career destination in which you will find wonderful working conditions, some very exciting and exclusive work, some technical challenges and a really cohesive and happy team. Loosing a team member is exceedingly rare and when it happens it maps to a family emergency, divorce, retirement or death that causes the separation; not poor environment, any form of bad management, disrespectful treatment of lack-luster paychecks.
The company culture is defined by personal professional consideration in a team of extraordinary professionals. Ownership came up through the ranks and has done every job in the place personally, and that experience builds better bosses. Leaders here know exactly what it takes, how long it takes and what is reasonably possible. Ownership actually came into this business through the estimating department and understands the work of an estimator intimately having been successful in that career. There is a mandate for respect here. Managers are sensitive to personal lives and family lives and not only are smart enough not to cross the work/person life balance line for business reasons, but feel that way personally. The company also remembers what our strong contributors have done over time and provides personal consideration, space, latitude or just plain help when there are personal/life’s challenges faced by employees outside of work. We are loyal to our staff in the same way and to the same degree we expect the team to be loyal to the company.
You will not find a past or present client that would hesitate to reengage the company for new work. You will not find a vendor unpaid or one unwilling to step-up and provide the pricing that is given to the biggest national contractors to us. The corporate goal is to continue to be the number-one quality firm in the clients’ view, making it easy to work with us for those clients, maintaining the quality of the working experience for the team, and supporting the entire effort with the maximum application of quality management / tracking systems / estimating systems and technology. The company is defined by annuity relationships internally and with the business and client communities.
The mission here is unusual and not for every electrical estimating professional. We have an aging department and are looking for a successor. We are also looking for an electrical estimator with an interest in and a head for IT. Beyond cultivating the next estimating generation, part of the position will call for helping in the integration of the NEW Timberline estimating module.
The Company has used Timberline as the ERM for many years. Having a uniform data base for estimating and project management, and having that reside truly within the enterprise resource management system is a long time goal. The new Timberline estimating system was developed by the same software team that developed the Estimation electrical estimating program. While a full implementation Accubid might provide a few bells and whistles Timberline does not have today, the Timberline software (an enhanced Estimation) is certainly not an obstacle to efficient production but the full integration to Timberline will have vast positive economic ramifications. Whatever the 5% speed lost in Timberline will return 200% in business control and leadership has studied that value proposition for a long time, so that is what must get done.
The is a long way of saying that part of the job is building a Timberline database, bringing up the system in the department, assuring 100% use and building the assemblies and templates that make sense. The company would prefer a Timberline user simply to speed up the process, but if you have a passion for computer tools and are genuinely adept, we will certainly discuss the goals with you and get you trained.
The company has a strong federal specialties business, but under that umbrella there are diverse work type opportunities. The targets are largely occupied facilities, but the Company has done package sorting lines, airport work and high technology work. We bid specifications, but we employ a licensed professional electrical engineer and perform design and build work as well. The broader (in terms of project types) a professional electrical estimator you are, the better. What is reasonable to say is that we want far more than a person that identifies jobs costs accurately.
The competence we are looking for could be called a strategic technical business person. This professional electrical estimator is technical and has benefited from either field experience coming up, or has always been driven to audit the physical constructions and understands how jobs are built. This strategic technical business person is interested in pulling together a solution along with the cost data, gearing up not only to solve the technical problems and generate an innovative, low-cost solution that meets client needs and code, but to develop a capture strategy. Such a person gets to know the clients and comes to understand how to work in a customized personal fashion with specific clients
A thinker and listener, the estimator we seek will uncover the authority centers within client businesses, identify individual decision makers, and communicate in a way that makes it easy for the client. This estimator then becomes indispensable where there is opportunity. Such a professional can pull the vendors into clever teaming arrangements. Finally, the estimating leader the Company needs is a dynamic person that is looking to ceaselessly evolve professionally. This is a person with talent, creativity, a penchant for learning and a pragmatic solutions person. As an employer, we allow our team to exercise all of their personal potential and culturally we seek out edge and do not fight change.
Being a quality administrator and establishing accurate costs for the full scope of an RFP is a very basic expectation. Being a business person is the icing we are seeking. The task of fully deploying Timberline and building the database is a unique assignment and once done, the Company expects the commitment to the system, good estimating procedures and the building of the assembly and template data base. The use of retained history to support accurate budgeting where a huge portion of the work reflects a very small portion of job value is something that will come with conscientious commitment to the system. Long-term inviolable commitment to the use of the system (really any good computer based system), and the accumulation of very accurate square foot data allow solid budgets to be distilled and can be a tremendous time saver where 15% of the estimate’s value might otherwise take 75% of the estimating hours.
The firm is relatively (though on the bidders list with the biggest) and the estimating leadership is often the spokesperson for the company and the face the clients see. Client friendliness and politically sensitivity are sought after professional qualities.
The bottom line is that the opportunity to be an estimating leader here is a one-of-a kind opportunity with an annuity payout. Every aspect of the working experience will be superior here, the execution of your estimated work will be in the hands of the best-of-the-best, success will position you for Chief and the end game will have a better payout. You cannot be treated better in this business than you will be working here with us.
PRIVACY:
First contact will be an external agent to allow discussions before information is moved forward and you must authorize the forward movement of information.
PAY AND BENEFITS
There are two components to total compensation here: BASE SALARY AND BONUS COMPENSATION. Base salary will be in the range of $90 – 110K. The lead estimator will participate in the company bonus pool, which is a defined portion of profit and has paid out substantially each and every year in the past 10. It would not be unusual to see a 15% bonus adder in year one and it gets stronger as you gain seniority and enjoy successes. The company provides great benefits and retirement plans. The company has a first class medical program and has a HSA program in addition. The company provides life, short and long term disability, generous holidays and vacation.
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EMAIL: leadership@entermail.net
SUBJECT LINE: SUPERIORESTIMATING