Director of Estimating & Purchasing

Company: Vernovis
Location: New Albany
Posted on: November 22, 2021

Job Description:

Job title: Director of Estimating and PurchasingLocation: New Albany, INDirect HireCome join us:Vernovis is an Inc. 5000 boutique consulting firm, serving small and mid-sized businesses in the Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio areas. We help companies complete critical business initiatives that are championed by their Technology and Financial leaders. Additionally, we offer expertise in the Cybersecurity space.The Director of Estimating and Purchasing is responsible for all activities related to the cost of construction with our Client. The Director of Estimating and Purchasing has the primary responsibility for achieving the lowest cost possible without sacrificing quality.If interested please contact Jonathon Dunaway at

• Assist in the design and costing of new house plans.
• Direct an ongoing value engineering process that ensures plans that use space efficiently, are efficient to build and minimize waste.
• Maintain a current database in Mark Systems that ensures accurate information is available to all relevant parties for budgeting, costing, estimating, pricing and reporting purposes.
• Prepare budgets for all base house plans and options.
• Administer contracts with sub-contractors, vendors and suppliers.
• Execute the company's process for bidding, awarding contracts, and issuing purchase orders and variance purchase orders.
• Prepare and issue start packages for all construction starts authorized by the Vice President of Operations.
• Support the Sales Department with pricing needs and technical information.
• Prepare and maintain all pricing information whether in "pricing books" or within information systems. The Director of Estimating and Purchasing is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of that information.
• Establish and maintain a subcontractor/supplier performance evaluation system.
• Review and analyze all costs that vary from the budget and recommend strategies and processes to eliminate specific variances.
• Coordinate all relationships with architects and other professionals who create or draft any house plans or options related thereto to ensure that all plans available to contractors, suppliers, sales counselors, home buyers, marketing professionals etc. are current, accurate and appropriate.
• Prepare all specification descriptions for subcontractors, suppliers and field personnel.
• Together with the Director of Design conduct an ongoing search to improve the selection of products and finishes available for Infinity HomebuyersThe Vernovis Difference:
  • Vernovis offers Health, Dental, Vision, Voluntary Short & Long Term Disability, Voluntary Life Insurance, 401K, Holiday Pay and Bonus Pay to you.
  • Join our collaborative work environment so that we can all do our best work and learn from each other. Our core values fuel our decisions and guide our actions:
    • Integrity - an uncompromising commitment to honesty and strong moral principles.
    • Collaboration - a reliance on openness, knowledge sharing, focus and accountability to achieve shared goals.
    • Extraordinary Service - a fundamental belief that we are in business to serve both clients and candidates in ways that exceed their expectations. Vernovis does not accept inquiries from Corp to Corp recruiting companies. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and not violate any immigration or discrimination laws.Vernovis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, citizenship, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status. - provided by Dice

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