• Job Description

  Req#: 588000

  Your number one responsibility

  We help our customers find their way Home.

  What you’ll be doing

  Our Estimator helps support the overall strategy of our Estimating System Department. Our Estimator will work closely with the Estimating System Manager to ensure short term and long term department goals are met. Responsible for ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of new and existing material takeoffs.

  You will be responsible for…

  • Maintains continuity among corporate, division, and local work teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
  • Create new plan budgets and maintain current plan budgets.
  • Maintain pricing changes for catalog and manages options within the catalog.
  • Expedite sale agent pricing requests.
  • Complete variance analysis of materials.
  • Manages future Estimators who join the team.
  • Develop budget estimates by performing accurate quantity takeoffs using plans and specifications, or conceptual information.
  • Review, estimate, and reconcile change orders, often with contractors or a peer review estimator.
  • Help Estimating manager establish and lead the company’s estimations department.
  • Investigate and prepare reports when contractors' bids vary widely from the agreed construction cost estimate.
  • Proactively seeks improvement to methods and procedures to streamline operations for maximum efficiency.
  • Effectively communicate with estimators and professionally address their requests.
  • Mentor and train estimating team to ensure top performance of all team members in achieving desired results while finding efficient and effective solutions that create overall organizational value.

  
  

  What qualifications you’ll bring to us

  • Strong people skills, including the capability to handle various personalities and develop professional relationships.
  • Action-oriented, with the drive to push projects and tasks to successful closure.
  • Strong verbal & written communication, with the ability to take complex concepts and communicate accurately and persuasively.
  • Experience making quick and accurate decisions based heavily on facts, data and/or metrics.
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills, ability to take initiative, use good judgment, demonstrate a strong sense of urgency and follow-up and carry multiple projects through to completion.
  • Proven experience with excellent attention to detail and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision.
  • Be able to read and understand blueprints
  • Proficient utilizing Microsoft Office – Excel, Word, Outlook

  What experience you’ll bring to us

  • High school diploma required
  • Bachelor's degree preferred
  • Experience in residential construction management preferred
  • 4+ years of construction experience required with a homebuilding and/or remodeling company
  • 4+ years’ experience as a residential estimator, estimating or cost control required
  • Knowledge of CAD, PlanSwift, Hyphen, and Newstar preferred

  What type of work environment you will be working in

  This position operates in a professional office environment, and routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax. This position must work well in a team oriented, fast paced setting and can handle interruptions while maintaining productivity and accuracy. If traveling, employee may be exposed to weather conditions.

  What we need from you

  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to, stand, talk, hear, walk, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard, reach for objects, stoop, and kneel. Ability to sit at a computer desk for an extended period of time. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate. Employee may be required to travel to other buildings or to attend meetings and training sessions.

• About the company

  John Houston Homes builds premium custom homes in award-winning communities across Dallas-Fort Worth, Midlothian, Waxahachie, Red Oak, Arlington, Mansfield, Burleson, Waco, and surrounding areas.

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