Mgr, Regional Estimating (Administrative)

                                                                                        Regional Estimating Manager

 

 

Position Summary

As the Regional Estimating Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing and leading the implementation and completion of all estimation activities within the assigned region, including coaching and developing the Estimation team to meet company standards and goals. This position can be both player and coach to ensure that the team is delivering quotes in an accurate and timely manner to meet our customer expectations, support our production capacities and allow us to win in the market.

 

What you'll get to do:

 

• Ensure detailed estimates are provided to our customers in a timely manner (within 24 hours). Drive accuracy within the team to work from architectural drawings and specifications, shop drawings or elevation take-offs. Follow up on estimates and provide feedback concerning market pricing levels.
• Oversee the consultation, coordination, and support to our customers, sales force and internal OBE teams.
• Monitor the creation of cost proposals for customers based on take-offs, using our price book or vendor quoted pricing and computer software.
• Collaborate with regional operations and finance to set margin/pricing/metric targets for the team and ensure they are achievable and align with company strategy.
• Resolve product or service problems by clarifying customer's issue; determining the root cause; selecting and clarifying the best solution to solve the problem; expediting correction or adjustments; and following up to ensure resolution.
• Listen attentively to customer needs and concerns, demonstrate empathy, and be an advocate for the customer.
• Ensure the team builds and maintains a broad knowledge of clients, products, and services of the organization.
• Communicate, manage, and motivate the estimation team to achieve their goals. Provide training to the team to improve their skills and knowledge.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other regions and peers in establishing best in class estimation practices and processes.
• Ensure accurate data entry of phoned, faxed, and e-mailed quotes and orders in accordance with cut off times and other time constraints that may exist.

 

Key Competencies

 

• Make safety a priority in daily activities.
• Hands on, articulate, and driven leader who can move with urgency to drive results.
• Strong interpersonal skills, delivers information clearly and effectively. Capable of adapting to situations or audience.
• Ability to win respect and influence at all levels of the organization and stakeholders.
• Capacity to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced and changing work environment.
• Strong analytical, geometry, and math skills.
• Solid working knowledge of fabrication and glazing installation.
• Ability to read, interpret, & understand architectural drawings and specifications to provide estimates that incorporate different building envelope solutions.
• Solid knowledge using computer systems and technology-based platforms.
• Ability to solve complex problems.
• Prior experience overseeing and leading teams a plus.

 

 

What we are looking for:

 

• Bachelor's degree or related field experience preferred.
• Previous manufacturing experience is a plus.

 

 

Who we are

At OBE, together, we build excellence every day… we are driven by our passion to lead our industry and build a sustainable future, we focus on exceeding customer expectations and delivering innovative solutions. We succeed through the dedication of our empowered teams and partners who fuel our ambition to achieve excellence in the markets where we have a right to win.

 

We believe safety, integrity, performance culture, teamwork, customer centricity, and agility are at the core of who we are and how we operate each day to achieve success.

 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) Estimating