POSITION TITLE: Purchasing Agent – Home Building
PAYRATE: DOE
EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Full-Time
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 5, 2015
LOCATION: Vacaville
Position Summary:
The Purchasing Agent is responsible for assisting the Homebuilding Operations Department in the research of specific products to be used in the construction of the company’s product.
The Purchasing Agent will maintain data on subcontractors hired, determine estimates of house budgets for hard cost, competitively bid subcontractors as needed, negotiate price and terms and create and maintain hard cost budgets for all active projects.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:
- Research products used in all single family dwellings while keeping up-to-date on all new products, materials, building technics and cost saving applications while enhancing the products quality. Maintain product information notebooks on the products used.
- Manage relationships with subcontractor’s suppliers and manufacturers.
- Develop and maintain budgets of hard cost for use in the sales pricing. Provide up-to-date hard cost used to determine sales pricing. Provide weekly budget updates on all new projects being purchased out until the job is 100% contracted. Maintain budgets concurrent to any changes.
- Maintain current information on all subcontractors employed by the company including but not limited to insurance, license, emergency numbers and contacts.
- Negotiate terms and pricing with the subcontractors and develop legal and binding contracts for each subcontractor. Determine methods to ensure that the contracts signed by the subcontractors are current and completely up to date through communication with the field superintendents. Maintain compliance with OSHA through the subcontractor’s contract.
- Keep all building plans current. Keep current on all revisions to the product(s) being built and inform all subcontractors and company employees that need to know about these changes.
- Improve on and/or develop new methods to ensure that the company is receiving the goods purchased through the purchasing department.
- Provide information for bank loans and MCRV’s.
- Analyze and understand local and notional building codes and be able to interpret those codes as it relates to the design of our product.
- Analyze soils reports derived by the company’s consultants as to the effect they will have on their structure.
- Interact with all the local governing jurisdictions to ensure that the product that we are to construct complies with all of their building codes, zoning codes, restrictions and ordinates.
- Provide all correspondence and documentation distributed by the purchasing department.
- Assist Sr. VP, President & CEO as needed. Inform the Sr. VP of any problems associated with the purchasing of subdivision, subcontractor problems and/or construction problems as they relate to the singed contracts.
- Understand and effectively articulate the goals, ideals standards and direction of the company to subcontractors and suppliers.
Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities):
- BS degree in Construction Management or equivalent experience
- Minimum of two years’ experience in Construction Management or Purchasing
- Have a working knowledge of the policies and procedures used by the superintendents in the field.
- Must be able to analyze the markets for which the product is to be built.
- Must possess and understanding of accounting procedures.
- Have a good working knowledge of all the trades required to the construct a single family dwelling.
- Understand the State of California Lien Laws.
- Must be able to analyze California’s Title 24 requirements.
- Be able to analyze the ability of subcontractor to perform to the standards of our company.
- Have a thorough working knowledge of the products used when constructing a single family dwelling.
- Ability to understand the technical aspects of residential construction.
- Ability to analyze problems, determine solutions and produce the desired outcome
- Possess good time management skills.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made.
- Must be able to safely operate a motor vehicle
- Must be able to lift 60 pounds.
- Must be able to climb stairs
- Must be able to work in both an office and construction environment
- Must be able to deal with stressful situations:
- Deadlines
- Work load
- Customer Satisfaction
Need to be able to apply deductive reasoning to problematic situations.
Company Benefits:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Paid time off Match Program
- Holiday Savings Fund
- 401 (k) Company Match Program
- Life Insurance
- Voluntary Insurance