Job Details

Overview

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Base pay range: $75,000.00/yr - $100,000.00/yr. This range is provided by Trumark Homes. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Our mission is to enhance the lives of people by creating inspiring living environments. For over 35 years, Trumark has been a leading real estate development company with divisions in Colorado, Northern, Central, and Southern California. We strive to set ourselves apart by looking ahead and ensuring our products are the best for homebuyers, fit into life today and in the future, and provide inviting and purposeful surroundings.

Responsibilities

• Main point of contact for bidding and contracting all trades.
• Take full responsibility for bidding, negotiating, and hiring trade contractors to maintain a competitive edge on costs while meeting the company's standards of quality, reliability, and overall performance of trade contractors and suppliers.
• Communicate with Project Management proactively to ensure plans are obtained and bid in a timely manner. Verify special considerations are budgeted/bid/contracted (e.g., acoustical report, conditions of approval, enhanced elevations, fuel modifications, methane requirements, etc.).
• Prepare Preliminary Product Specifications for new projects to meet spec level and pro forma budget considerations. Match existing standard specifications for projects, materials, and details to ensure consistency across projects.
• Interface with Architects, Structural Engineers and other third-party experts on product development and innovation.
• Calculate and maintain material take-offs from working drawings and check take-offs made by suppliers.
• Compare bids with respect to prices, past performance, financial stability, or the contractor's relationship with other builders.
• Understand bids based on unitized pricing and analyze accordingly.
• Prepare direct construction budgets for each community based on overall mix.
• Analyze bids and proposals to ensure they are complete and comparable. Negotiate contracts to ensure best pricing and performance.
• Obtain alternate costs and hourly rates as needed to fully contract potential changes to contract requirements and for time-and-material work.
• Update budgets as contracts are awarded to ensure current information.
• Contract site variances and issue Site Variance Purchase Orders accordingly.
• Review new products and vendors to identify opportunities for improved quality and cost-effectiveness and consider for future projects or specifications.
• Recruit new, qualified trade contractors and suppliers, in addition to facilitating improvements of existing relationships.
• Validate and eliminate variances to the Direct Construction Budget.
• Attend model walks and facilitate consistent communication of design changes.
• Contract specialty Trade Contractors for Model Designers.
• Participate in Frame Walks to document changes to existing contracts based on authorized Frame Walk changes.
• Research new procedures, products, and methods of construction to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
• Participate in field walks to physically inspect installations to ensure they match the contract specifications.
• Coordinate plan review process with production team, trade partners and design professionals.
• Maintain trade Scopes of Work to ensure they match the project plans and specifications.
• Mentor and train Assistant Purchasing Agents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Construction Management, Supply Chain Management, or equivalent required.
• 2-5 years of construction experience with a production homebuilder.
• Strong knowledge of and experience with general contract terms and conditions.
• People skills to handle various personalities and develop professional relationships.
• Knowledge of residential construction in both single-family and multi-family.
• Technologically savvy with a strong aptitude for learning new software.
• Solid verbal and written communication, with the ability to convey complex concepts accurately and persuasively.
• Ability to work well in a team setting and cooperate with others' ideas.
• Knowledge of unitized pricing, bids and contract analysis.
• Experience with take-offs and estimates.
• Ability to read blueprints.
• Capacity to make quick and accurate decisions based on facts, data and/or metrics.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and builder's software (e.g., Build Pro, Newstar, FAST, On Location, Vendorlink or similar).
• Ability to conduct business in a professional and ethical manner with potential buyers, trade partners, external officials, and coworkers.

Why Work for Trumark?

• Work with a team that values you and offers a direct career path.
• Live Well: We build communities that foster connection, aspiration, and giving back; for every ~50 homes, we partner with charity: water to provide fresh water to about 200 people.
• Exceptional Medical Benefits (100% Employee + 60% Dependent).
• Monthly wellness stipend.
• 401k with company matching.

EEO Statement

At Trumark Homes, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of protected statuses. We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in employment decisions including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, disciplines, termination, or training.

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Purchasing and Supply Chain