What are the responsibilities and job description for the Purchasing Manager position at Schell Brothers LLC?
Description
Schell Brothers is Delaware’s largest private home builder with divisions in Richmond, VA , Nashville, TN, and Boise, ID. Our mission is to bring happiness to ourselves and our homeowners by not only creating exceptional homes and communities but also providing an extraordinary home buying experience.
We have been awarded the highest honor for a builder in North America: Pro Builder’s Builder of the Year! We also received the Great Place to Work certification and Fortune 100 Best Workplace across our divisions, highlighting the strength of our employee culture.
Our team embodies a culture of positivity, collaboration, and relentless dedication to quality. We are looking for a talented and motivated Purchasing Manager to join our team. Responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to:
- Estimating Material Quantities for Plans and Options
- Locating new Trade Partners and Soliciting Bids
- Pricing negotiations with Trade Partners and Vendors
- Variance Purchase Order review
- Preparing Start Packages for new homes
- Generation of weekly cost reports
- Budget Reviews
- Frequent review and revision of Scope’s
- Complete budget preparation for projects including material and labor cost
- Take-off/estimates for projects
- Job scheduling, coordination, and execution including, but not limited to
o Purchase orders
o Bills of material
o Sub-contracts
- Interface with the Construction Managers
Requirements
Basic Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years experience in estimating or residential construction
Preferred Requirements
- Excellent negotiating skills
- Excellent math skills
- Computer proficiency
- Experience with computer-aided estimating software
- Excel proficiency
- Extremely detailed oriented
