A Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or a related field of study, or a high school diploma/GED with equivalent work experience.
Progressive experience in the commercial construction industry, preferably in general contracting and/or drywall and interiors.
Field experience or exposure is a plus.
Experience or exposure to estimating, scheduling, and/or project management technology is a plus, including TrueBuilt, Quick Bid, On-Screen Take-Off, and project management and blueprint collaboration software such as Bluebeam and PlanGrid.
Knowledge of construction practices and project management methods.
Professional verbal and written communication skills.
Strong relationship-building skills.
Strong numerical and reasoning skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
Responsibilities
Invest time learning the industry and its participants, including customers and competitors.
Build rapport quickly with new contacts and begin establishing credibility and a network of customer contacts.
Participate in customer meetings, sometimes alongside a more senior MAREK representative.
Learn estimating tools, technology, and approaches for estimating and pricing change orders.
Estimate and provide pricing for work orders and change orders.
Develop a foundation of product knowledge, market structure and conditions, drawings, and specifications as they relate to estimating and pricing changes.
Partner with field leaders and customers to assist in pre-job planning, including identifying and resolving potential scope, schedule, sequence, contract, budget, safety, material-staging, or manpower issues.
Ask questions when construction documents are not understood.
Develop a fair and achievable budget for labor, material, and equipment, and provide the budget in a timely manner.
Submit requests for information, price work orders or change orders, and create submittals.
Solicit competitive proposals and buy out materials, vendors, and subcontractors.
Participate in regularly scheduled production look-ahead meetings.
Ensure timely billing and collections.
Be regularly present on the job to support the field team and address safety, cost, and quality issues.
Capture, organize, and maintain project documentation to mitigate potential risk of back charges.
Provide feedback to the project management team throughout the project lifecycle to improve future projects.
Job Responsibilities
Business Development
Invests time learning the industry and who the players are, including customers and competitors.
Builds rapport quickly with new contacts and begins building credibility and a network of customer contacts.
Participates in customer meetings may be alongside a more senior MAREK representative.
Cost Estimating
Learns estimating tools, technology and approach as it related to estimating and pricing change orders.
Estimates and provides pricing for work orders and change orders.
Develops base foundation of product knowledge, market structure and conditions, and drawings and specifications as they related to estimating and pricing changes, etc.
Project Management
Partners with field leaders and customers to assist in planning pre-job, including identifying and resolving potential scope, schedule, sequence, contract, budget, safety, material staging or manpower.
Proactively asks questions when he or she does not understand construction documents.
Develops a fair and achievable budget for labor, material and equipment, and provides the budget in a timely manner.
Submits RFIs, prices work order or change orders, and creates submittals.
Solicits competitive proposals and buyout of materials, vendors and subcontractors.
Engages in regularly scheduled production look-ahead meetings.
Ensure timely billing and collections.
Is regularly present on the job to support field team and effectively navigate safety, cost, and quality issues
Captures, organizes and maintains project documentation to mediate potential risk of back charges.
Provides feedback to project throughout the lifecycle of the project to project management team to improve future projects.
Job Requirements
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management or related field of study or high school diploma/GED with equivalent work experience.
Experience
Progressive experience in commercial construction industry, preferably in general contracting and/or drywall and interiors.
Field experience or exposure a plus.
Experience or exposure to estimating, scheduling, and/or project management technology a plus. (TrueBuilt, Quick Bid, On-Screen Take-Off, Project Management and blueprint collaboration software such as Bluebeam, Plan Grid, etc.)
Knowledge of construction practices and project management methods.
Professional verbal and written communication skills
Strong relationship building skills.
Strong numerical and reasoning skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office products; Outlook, Word, and Excel.
Skills
Knowledge of construction practices and project management methods.
Professional verbal and written communication skills
Strong relationship building skills.
Strong numerical and reasoning skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office products; Outlook, Word, and Excel.
*We are an Equal Opportunity Employer*
Direct reports
This position has no supervisory responsibilities for direct reports