Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate all construction deficiencies located at multi-family properties and determine improvements necessary for code compliance and to meet applicable minimum property standards.
- Create comprehensive scope of work to repair property issues as requested by management.
- Ensures the customer receives an accurate cost estimate of damages.
- Complete forms necessary for the delivery of a complete bid package and follow customer scope of work accurately.
- Inspect job sites with client, sales and adjuster to prepare detailed scopes of work and repair estimates in a timely manner.
- Communicates effectively the scopes of work with insurance adjusters.
- Facilitate communications between stakeholders.
- Provide insurance industry expertise to the Sales representative during contract negotiations.
- Provide Operations with appropriate scopes of work. Help with hard cost estimating.
- Assist in providing proper information for invoicing.
Key Knowledge Skills & Abilities
- Knowledgeable of the Building and Construction industry, including but not limited to, materials, methods, and the tools involved in construction or repair of all aspects of the multi-family industry. Includes understanding multi-family construction drawings and specifications.
- Knowledge of quantity take-off means and methods for material and labor.
- Ability to break down a complex, conceptual, ambiguous problem into logical, smaller steps, to complete the task.
- Knowledge of how long certain phases, tasks, or portions of a project should take to be able to identify if it is going well or not and to then make adjustments.
- Ability to maintain professional rapport with a diverse audience.
- Ability to ask for help, make mistakes and grow from them.
- High level knowledge of local labor and material cost
- Ability to estimate scopes of work without the need for sub bids
- Ability to seek out a challenge and tackle it
- Ability to maintain a presence in the field and conduct job walks as needed
- Ability to manage high-volume workload
Position Requirements & Preferences
- Degree not required, but is preferred
- Experience in multi-family renovation
- Experience in estimating role required
- Best predictor of success is to look at their tenure in the estimating role. 3+ years in multi-family estimating role is ideal
- Ambitious – someone who is able to recognize opportunities and will go get them.
- Someone who will partner with clients to expand the scope of work to maximize job profitability.
- Construction experience in the United States
Key Detractors in a Candidate
- Engineering and construction degrees may be counterproductive; be selective
- Single-family new construction and single-family restoration work does not typically translate to our industry.
- New construction/ground-up construction
- No construction experience, even if they have had asset management experience, for example. Must have construction experience.
- Someone who needs all the steps outlined in the estimating process.
- Any project experience that is <$500,000
- Limited high-volume experience (<5 at a time)
Key Performance Indicators
- On time performance percentage
- On budget percentage
- Buyout against estimate
