Commercial Door and Hardware Estimator

COMMERCIAL DOOR AND HARDWARE ESTIMATOR

The Commercial Door and Hardware Estimator’s role is like the magic of spackle in construction; it is all about filling in the gaps and making a smooth final result. The Estimator helps fill the gaps of our customer’s door needs.  We love automatics, but sometimes customers need a manual or hollow metal door too!  This division of the door world is it’s own three ring circus!  Wrangling info from take offs and site surveys, whipping the suppliers for pricing, juggling material sourcing, taming estimates, and cramming all  the administrative, technical, sales, and customer service skills into the clown car of this door career!  

What Does the Commercial Door Estimator Do?

A typical day starts with caffeine jolt and a perusal of the recent site surveys submitted by technicians.  After filling in any blanks like a wild door version of Mad Libs, you get to work contacting vendors, gathering prices, following up with customers on previously submitted quotes.  Closing the sale is almost as fun as closing the new door after it is installed!  Juggling the phone and email as you communicate with customers, suppliers, technicians, and the Project Manager is all part of the normal circus act of commercial door and hardware estimating.   Snacks, puns, and witty banter amongst the office staff is a must to keep everyone positive amid the chaos of this big top act.

What are the Job Demands?

• Reading and deciphering contract documents, drawings, and specifications.
• Material takeoffs for commercial doors, frames, hardware, and accessories.
• Acquire supplier pricing for all required material.
• Accurately price material costs and generate customer quotes.
• Superior responsiveness and follow-up on quotes while tracking data
• Provide detailed hand-off files to our project managers upon landing of jobs.
• Produce project profit and loss reports
• Must be able to work independently, balance deadlines, and prioritize tasks on multiple projects.

What Skills Do I Need to Meet Those Demands?

• Professional, honest, outgoing individual
• Experience in commercial doors and hardware
• Experience in construction, architectural, or B2B sales
• Ability to read, and interpret architectural drawings, schedules, and specifications.
• Attention to detail as well as a strong mathematical and technical background.
• Ability to work as a team with other sales staff, service, and administrative depts.
• Mad computer skills
• Demonstrated communication and organizational skills
• Desire to continually grow and learn

What Do You Get Out Of It?

Satisfaction of doing an awesome job while you solve a customer’s problem. A good night’s sleep after working your butt off for a decent paycheck while opening doors to make the community more accessible. A chance to grow personally and professionally with a career at a company that offers a road to the future, not just a dead end.

The Deets:

• This is a full time gig, M-F, 45 hours/wk
• We pay pretty darn good.
• We have got that health insurance thing covered.
• We have that retirement deal with matching to combat that Peter Pan complex.
• We pay you to get lost a week or two out of the year…and on holidays too.
• We pass out some hi-tech gadgets for communicating.

THE FINE PRINT:
This position begins with a 30-day training trial, followed by an evaluation to determine suitability for permanent position. New hires are required to sign a confidentiality and non-compete agreement. 

Trinity Door Systems proudly maintains a drug and alcohol free workplace.

*Want to know how to get your foot in the door? Include a cover letter with your resume! We read every single application, so stand out from the crowd. Helpful hint #2: Don’t call us, we’ll call you. We are pretty busy so we will contact those we wish to interview.  Hint # 3 We work on automatic pedestrians entrances, not the garage doors.  If someone drives a car through one of our doors, one of our techs is having a bad day!

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Salary : $45,000