Essential Duties & Responsibilities- Set work priorities by reviewing performance to ensure effectiveness and alignment with department goals.
- Control expenses by developing a department budget, monitoring capital expenditures, and approving purchases.
- Communicate department goals and objectives to field supervisors, Project Managers, and support staff.
- Communicate department expectations to the project management team and evaluate and report on progress.
- Provide sales support as required. Assist with estimating and project development. Review and sign-off of estimates.
- Assign Project Managers to new projects.
- Develop and maintain vendor relationships.
- Lead project review and production meetings.
- Review job costing reports for large and small retrofit projects.
- Work with the Director of Finance and Project Managers to ensure proper project implementation and documentation from beginning through project close-out and final collections.
- Provide technical advice and assistance where appropriate.
- Maintain appropriate retrofit staff levels by assisting with recruiting, interviewing, and hiring.
- Oversee the overall scheduling effort to maximize the use of retrofit personnel and resources to fulfill customer commitments.
- Respond to customer inquiries, complaints, and special requests.
- Maintain quality standards by visiting job sites and meeting with branch managers, VP Ops, field supervisors, customers, and vendors as needed.
- Understand industry changes and respond to alternative strategies to maintain competitive advantage in our marketplace.
- Assure that tools, equipment, and vehicles are managed to meet the business unit requirements to meet customer expectations.
- Actively gather and disseminate market intelligence for each estimating job by talking directly with the buyer, the end user, vendors and/or other sources of information.
- Interpret customer drawings, specifications, and requirements as the basis of formulating quotation strategies.
- Assist with preparation of monthly financial forecasts.
- Provide administrative and technical direction and supervision to Project Manager and General Foreman in completing work assignments.
- Maintains sufficient records, files, controls, and procedures to ensure management and work production.
- Develop training sessions for employees who require them.
- Maintains a strong safety program.
Qualifications- 10+ years of combined experience in the field and/or management working in the HVAC industry.
- 2+ years in estimation pipe fitting trades work.
- Experience with tooling, machining, fabrication, or construction environments and industries.
- Must be fluent with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, etc.).
- Strong technical writing skills and ability to read and interpret drawings and/or construction plans are required for success.
- This position requires strong leadership, management, and organizational skills, the ability to perform detailed work on time, follow up through order closure, and manage a team to deliver projects on time and within the budget.
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