Director of Purchasing
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