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