Director of Purchasing & Estimating

About Johnson Custom Homes

Johnson Custom Homes is an award-winning luxury home builder with over 25 years of building experience. We are focused on driving a customer first experience, providing exceptional quality and safety on the job sites.  We focus heavily on our core values along with our teamwork and best practices.

Summary: The Director of Purchasing & Estimating (DPE) is a high impact opportunity for an engaging, resilient, mindful, and strategic leader a visionary and entrepreneurial leader with the drive, motivation, and expertise to build and grow an innovative custom home building company.

Responsibilities

• Should possess a thorough knowledge of custom home building, estimating and project management 
• Analyze project plans, specifications, and blueprints to determine project requirements
• Coordinate with suppliers, and trade partners to obtain pricing information
• Conduct thorough cost analysis and prepare accurate estimates for labor, materials, equipment, and subcontractor services 
• Create comprehensive budgets for prospective sales
• Collaborate with the client and designers to make selections in a timely manner
• Prepare detailed take-offs and quantity surveys 
• Prepare and monitor change orders throughout the construction process and provide regular updates to clients
• Working closely with project managers, trade partners and clients to ensure that projects are completed within budget and on schedule. 
• Develop value analysis and engineering by defining alternatives to proposed scope that are more cost efficient
• Assist the leadership & project management team to be successful in all upcoming projects.
• Excellent communication and human relations, the ability to motivate the team and build company culture
• Utilize daily and monthly operational dashboards and financial reports to.
• Review and analyze data and reports to identify strengths and weaknesses in business processes and evaluate operational effectiveness.

Education & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in construction management preferred

A Builders License preferred

10-15 years of residential, custom home experience

10-15 years of tracking controls and budget reporting systems

Strong analytical and digital skills, including Word, Excel and scheduling software programs