Job Details
Gabriel Builders is looking for a Director of Purchasing to join our award-winning design+build team. We are a luxury, high-end, custom home builder centrally located to serve the Greenville, Lake Keowee, and Asheville areas, as well as all seven Cliffs Communities. Our multi-million dollar homes are award-winning on the state and national levels. Detail, craftsmanship, and care can be found in each one of our handcrafted homes.
As the Director of Purchasing, you will manage the bid process, facilitate competitive pricing, increase trade partners, and promote synchronization between the design and construction departments.
Sales
- Review lot and house placement to minimize costs and maximize views, and provide a "site analysis" when needed.
Estimating
- Collect and review all pertinent documents including plans, drawings, and specifications.
- Study documentation and meet with the residential design team as needed to fully understand what is required. Red-line any discrepancies or questions assuring specs and budgets are properly aligned.
- Collaborate with the residential design team to develop project budgets consistent with client expectations; encourage efficient production and a reduction in warranty claims. Provide pricing options when possible.
- Manage the RFQ process in a manner that communicates product acceptance, quality, and value while also promoting competitive material and labor pricing from qualified vendors and subcontractors; distribute plans and specifications to subcontractors and suppliers.
- Negotiate contracts with competitive pricing by leveraging volume contracting, payment terms, and discounts to reduce costs and enhance profitability.
- Draft proposals that detail materials, costs, and time frames.
- Review estimates with construction to achieve stakeholder buy-in.
- Meet with clients as needed to address concerns and answer questions.
- Write all subcontractor agreements and ensure that they are job-specific.
- Analyze and maintain project costs and establish a current cost of construction.
- Establish a goal of being within 2% of the original estimate.
- Assure, where applicable, that the selections, specs, and budgets are aligned.
- Create a "Client Playbook" containing plans, contracts, estimates, landscape design, design selections, and schedule. It could also include a list of trade folks, utility companies, etc.
- Increase the vendor and subcontractor base by adding quality-minded, "good value" vendor and trade folks.
- Hold formal meetings with trades to accomplish the following: To educate them as to the "Gabriel Way"; To provide semiannual feedback as to their performances and how Gabriel can improve; To seek continuous improvement
- Create a formal PO System for purchases and work orders.
- Work with the PM to generate and issue purchase orders for major purchases.
- Analyze estimates for outliers and generate value-engineering opportunities. Hold/attend VE meetings with design and clients and document that process
- Consult estimating software engineer and improve upon current software.
- Manage and archive both paper and electronic estimating documents.
- Generate a lookbook to coincide with pricing and specs.
- Review jobs and generate historical data points separated by the caliber of home.
Vendor and Subcontractor Management
- Validate existing preferred vendor and subcontractor lists; develop additional trade partners to promote competitive pricing.
- Develop systems to efficiently manage subcontractors; allocate subcontractors in a manner that enhances the construction department's ability to meet delivery agreements.
- Promote relationships with vendors and subcontractors to market Gabriel Builders as a preferred builder; implement vendor and subcontractor appreciation celebrations.
- Establish ways to make vendor and subcontractor jobs easier in order to control prices. For example, a painter might include several call-back trips in his original budget because he knows there will be drywall patches.
Project Management
- Coordinate handoff meetings from design to groundbreaking.
- Track projects in the sales pipeline as they progress through the residential design department.
- Analyze data and produce forecasts.
- Report the status of each job that is in estimating to the company owners.
- Evaluate trending costs per square foot, contributing factors, and outliers.
- Work with production to reduce construction schedule durations.
- Schedule monthly on-site project meetings to review each project.
- Coordinate bi-weekly schedule meetings with PM's, Nick & Gabe.
- Look for means of Improvement to expedite the construction timeline-use of trusses, panelized homes, etc.
- Debrief with PM after each project to review final budget numbers.
Working alongside a talented team of designers, project managers, interior designers, and crew members, you will help bring our clients' dream homes to life. As an employee of Gabriel Builders, your work must be focused on quality and perfectionism.
Requirements
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Bachelor degree or advanced degree in Business, Engineering, or other related field
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality