General Contracting Estimator (self-perform) - Granger Construction

Get To Know Granger

Granger Construction is built with innovators, leaders, collaborators, and listeners. Founded on the Golden Rule in 1959, our values remain ingrained with our employees, customers, and overall project experience. As a leader in the construction industry, we continue investing in our talented teams, technologies, and techniques, to best deliver projects that exceed our customer's expectations.

Culture

Our employees come from various life and career backgrounds, but all share the passion to Advance the Art of Building. We celebrate innovation, diversity, and build an environment that keeps our team members highly engaged while developing lifelong relationships. Our success is driven by empowering our employee's passions, ideas, and providing work-life balance.

What Can We Offer You?

Autonomy
We trust people we hire. Plain and simple. Granger empowers people to make the best decisions for the customer and the company.

Career Development
Team members enjoy flexible career paths at Granger. We support development with tools and resources, and career conversations to help prepare obtainable, personalized, professional goals.

Challenging Work
Diverse projects keep our teammates engaged and continuously learning. Participating in multiple market segments, we develop well-rounded employees.

Benefits
We offer platinum-level health care coverage. Our goal is to provide less financial stress on our employees without sacrificing excellent healthcare coverage. Our Granger Team's health is top priority and top of mind.

Retirement
A generous 401(k) plan with significant employer-matching. We want to best prepare you for your financial retirement goals. We offer an excellent plan and financial advisors for all employees.

Time Off
Life happens, things come up, vacations should be had, and we encourage our teams to utilize this time to balance work and home life. We proudly offer substantial paid time off (PTO).

Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
Granger Gives! We encourage our team to participate in volunteer activities to enhance and serve the community. To put our money where our mouth is, we offer paid voluntary time off to all full-time employees.

Wellness Program
Granger cares about the holistic wellness of our team. Our Wellness Program provides free support, training, resources, and tools to nurture physical, mental, financial, and community wellness.

Day In the Life of an General Contracting Estimator

Do you have a keen eye for detail and a passion for seeing a project come to life? Are you interested in a career that applies your love for numbers and industry knowledge with an impactful part of a project? Great! With the support of our self-perform team, our General Contracting Estimator role may just be the perfect growth opportunity for your career.

Working primarily at our Lansing headquarters, our General Contracting Estimator will support our self-perform division while assisting in some project management tasks as needed. So, what does this mean?

We would count on you to support our team with:

• Demonstrate and maintain clear, effective communication with owners, architects, partners, teammates.
• Being thorough. Performing a comprehensive estimate take-off.
• Verify and analyze. Review drawings and specifications and clarify contractual terms and conditions.
• Relationship building. Not only do we build awesome things, but we pride ourselves the most on our relationship building. You'll build and manage relationships with teammates, vendors, and subcontractors.
• Bid-day prep and participation. Develop appropriate pricing and schedule; put together scopes of work for all major subcontractor packages; coordination of bid-day submission and delivery.
• Ensure a complete, responsible, and comprehensive bid. Regularly confirm that job cost and labor cost reports are reviewed and updated.
• Handle of assisting teammates with project management duties.
• Brand ambassador. Granger has earned a positive reputation in the construction industry. Our teammates illustrate our values in each conversation and interaction: trust, honesty, fairness, integrity, compassion, and appreciation for the team contribution.

What Experience You Bring

• Education. Bachelor's degree in building construction management, civil engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Organization. Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Analytical skills. Show off your critical thinking skills to capitalize of projects.
• Talk the talk. Lead by example and excellent verbal and written communication.
• Trust your instincts. You can anticipate needs, take initiative, and proactively address issues.
• A true go-getter. You have tenacity to self-start and accomplish tasks, follow-through, and meet deadlines.
• Technologically savvy. Construction Management has become very tech-forward. Being able to pick up computer programs and new technologies quickly will aid in your success.

What Sets You Apart

You will really stand out if you have the following skillsets:

• High level of emotional intelligence. You get people. You can effectively and successfully work with anyone.
• Construction-specific software knowledge, such as ProCore, ViewPoint, Microsoft Project.
• Builder's Mindset. Innovative, forward-thinking, problem solving for internal and external customers.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.