Project Estimator - Bray Controls

This is a singular opportunity to take your estimating or engineering career to the next level with Bray International's Commercial Division, a leading provider of electronic control valves and actuators. As Project Engineer/Estimator, based out of Bray's Houston campus, your focus will be maximizing sales growth, in two distinct ways. By taking key projects, conducting take-off/engineering review, and providing sales direction to a network of Bray sales offices. Using your engineering/estimating acumen in addition to working for an industry leading manufacturer, you will provide "value engineered" solutions to save customers' money and make their facilities more efficient. In the North American market that's experiencing steady growth, you'll represent electro-mechanical components that drive advances in the commercial building automation marketplace, including several unique and innovative valve product lines. If you're an engineering/estimating professional with an entrepreneurial spirit, this could be your ticket to a rewarding opportunity with a global company that is experiencing continual growth. Since Bray Commercial pursues a dynamic strategy in which innovation is recognized and rewarded, we're wide open to new ideas that will motivate staff in the field, elevate our product offerings to new heights and allow us to lionize our target markets.

As a Project Engineer/Estimator based in the Houston area, your first mission will be coming up to speed in our Houston headquarters on our Bray Commercial product suite. From product knowledge, to application, and technical competency; top candidates can hit the ground running, ideally because of prior industry/market experience.

If you're a game changing professional who can technically address the needs of the HVAC engineering community, you're someone with the earmarks of a successful candidate, and can excel in spanning the divide between design, and performance. We're looking for difference makers who can cite past success in the building automation technical/engineering sector. If that sounds like you, apply today. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Develops project objectives by reviewing project proposals and plans and conferring with management.
• Determines project specifications by studying product design, customer requirements, and performance standards.
• Conduct regular meetings with clients to ensure clarification and meet specific requirements in a timely manner.
• Completes technical studies and prepares cost estimates.
• Determines project schedule by studying project plan and specifications, calculating time requirements, and sequencing project elements.
• Maintains project schedule by monitoring project progress, coordinating with outside salesman, and resolving problems.
• Controls project plan by reviewing design, specifications, and plan, scheduling changes, and recommending actions.
• Prepares project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends; recommending actions.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by enforcing procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Maintains product and company reputation by complying with federal and state regulations.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Project management
• Manufacturing methods and procedures
• Process improvement
• Technical understanding
• Documentation skills
• Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Office 365
• Able to interpret Mechanical Plans and Specifications
• Control Valve & Actuator Knowledge is a Plus

Project Engineer – Estimator Requirements:

• 3 or more years' field and project experience.
• Control Valve & Actuator knowledge is a Plus
• Excellent computer literacy and knowledge of design and visualization software.
• Able to work with multiple discipline projects with a timely turnaround process.
• Excellent project management and supervision skills.
• Excellent organizational, time management, leadership, and decision-making skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelors degree.  

Please Note:

• Immigration sponsorship not offered for this position
• Staffing and recruiting agencies are not invited to submit unsolicited candidates for this job posting

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) Engineering