Preconstruction Estimator - Columbus
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Hey, Columbus! Get To Know Granger
Granger Construction is built with innovators, leaders, collaborators, and listeners. Founded on the Golden Rule in 1959, our values remain ingrained with our employees, customers, and overall project experience. As a leader in the construction industry, we continue investing in our talented teams, technologies, and techniques, to best deliver projects that exceed our customer's expectations.
Culture
Our employees come from various life and career backgrounds, but all share the passion to Advance the Art of Building. We celebrate innovation, diversity, and build an environment that keeps our team members highly engaged while developing lifelong relationships. Our success is driven by empowering our employee's passions, ideas, and providing work-life balance.
What Can We Offer You?
Autonomy
We trust people we hire. Plain and simple. Granger empowers people to make the best decisions for the customer and the company.
Career Development
Team members enjoy flexible career paths at Granger. We support development with tools and resources, and career conversations to help prepare obtainable, personalized, professional goals.
Challenging Work
Diverse projects keep our teammates engaged and continuously learning. Participating in multiple market segments, we develop well-rounded employees.
Benefits
We offer platinum-level health care coverage. Our goal is to provide less financial stress on our employees without sacrificing excellent healthcare coverage. Our Granger Team's health is top priority and top of mind.
Retirement
A generous 401(k) plan with significant employer-matching. We want to best prepare you for your financial retirement goals. We offer an excellent plan and financial advisors for all employees.
Time Off
Life happens, things come up, vacations should be had, and we encourage our teams to utilize this ime to balance work and home life. We proudly offer substantial paid time off (PTO).
Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
Granger Gives! We encourage our team to participate in volunteer activities to enhance and serve the community. To put our money where our mouth is, we offer paid voluntary time off to all full-time employees.
Wellness Program
Granger cares about the holistic wellness of our team. Our Wellness Program provides free support, training, resources, and tools to nurture physical, mental, financial, and community wellness.
Day In the Life of an Estimator
Do you thrive in an environment that values autonomy and professional growth? Are you passionate about transforming diverse project visions into reality? Does the challenge of estimating materials and costs for commercial projects excite you?
Yes? Great! You'll fit right in.
We would count on you to support our team with:
You will really stand out if you have the following skillsets:
Granger Construction is built with innovators, leaders, collaborators, and listeners. Founded on the Golden Rule in 1959, our values remain ingrained with our employees, customers, and overall project experience. As a leader in the construction industry, we continue investing in our talented teams, technologies, and techniques, to best deliver projects that exceed our customer's expectations.
Culture
Our employees come from various life and career backgrounds, but all share the passion to Advance the Art of Building. We celebrate innovation, diversity, and build an environment that keeps our team members highly engaged while developing lifelong relationships. Our success is driven by empowering our employee's passions, ideas, and providing work-life balance.
What Can We Offer You?
Autonomy
We trust people we hire. Plain and simple. Granger empowers people to make the best decisions for the customer and the company.
Career Development
Team members enjoy flexible career paths at Granger. We support development with tools and resources, and career conversations to help prepare obtainable, personalized, professional goals.
Challenging Work
Diverse projects keep our teammates engaged and continuously learning. Participating in multiple market segments, we develop well-rounded employees.
Benefits
We offer platinum-level health care coverage. Our goal is to provide less financial stress on our employees without sacrificing excellent healthcare coverage. Our Granger Team's health is top priority and top of mind.
Retirement
A generous 401(k) plan with significant employer-matching. We want to best prepare you for your financial retirement goals. We offer an excellent plan and financial advisors for all employees.
Time Off
Life happens, things come up, vacations should be had, and we encourage our teams to utilize this ime to balance work and home life. We proudly offer substantial paid time off (PTO).
Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
Granger Gives! We encourage our team to participate in volunteer activities to enhance and serve the community. To put our money where our mouth is, we offer paid voluntary time off to all full-time employees.
Wellness Program
Granger cares about the holistic wellness of our team. Our Wellness Program provides free support, training, resources, and tools to nurture physical, mental, financial, and community wellness.
Day In the Life of an Estimator
Do you thrive in an environment that values autonomy and professional growth? Are you passionate about transforming diverse project visions into reality? Does the challenge of estimating materials and costs for commercial projects excite you?
Yes? Great! You'll fit right in.
We would count on you to support our team with:
- Lead the charge. Lead in all aspects of preconstruction, including estimating, budgeting, planning, logistics, scheduling, and execution.
- Attention to detail. Review proposal specifications, drawings, attend pre-bid meetings, attend design meetings, etc. to determine scope of work and required content of estimates.
- Estimating champion. Assemble and communicate estimates on complex projects, including from conceptual to detailed bids and hard bid projects.
- Continuous learning and improvement. Constantly search for value engineering opportunities at every stage of a project.
- Talk the talk. Effectively communicate conceptual ideas and goals with clients, architects, engineers, subcontractors, and suppliers to ensure the desired result and financial success of all projects.
- Research. Analyze historical cost information and leverage various sources of data to create cost models utilized for future project opportunities.
- Connect and develop relationships. Build and maintain a network of trade and A/E partners to support cost benchmarking and bid day coverage.
- Brand ambassador. Granger has earned a positive reputation in the construction industry. Our teammates illustrate our values in each conversation and interaction: trust, honesty, fairness, integrity, compassion, and appreciation for the team contribution.
- Conceptual experience. 3-5 years of related experience.
- Education. Bachelor's degree in building construction management, civil engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Technologically savvy. Knowledge of software to support estimating scheduling, communication, and reporting.
- Organization. Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Walk the walk. Lead by example and excellent verbal and written communication.
- Trust your instincts. You can anticipate needs, take initiative, and proactively address issues.
- A true go-getter. You have tenacity to self-start and accomplish tasks, follow-through, and meet deadlines.
- Entrepreneurial-minded. The ability to see the big picture while simultaneously focusing on the details.
You will really stand out if you have the following skillsets:
- High level of emotional intelligence. You get people. You can effectively and successfully work with anyone.
- Construction-specific software knowledge, such as CostX.
- Builder's Mindset. Innovative, forward-thinking, problem solving for internal and external customers.
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