Track Services-Project Manager & Estimating

Provides rail maintenance/construction estimates for customers and coordinates activities of workers engaged in providing the previously estimated work.

This remote role requires candidates to be based in Wisconsin and includes regular travel throughout Wisconsin and the Midwest to support job site activities and field operations.

Include the following (other duties may be assigned):

• Maintains a safe working environment by making sure all employees understand and follow all safety rules.
• Walks railroad tracks, identifying deficiencies in the track infrastructure and preparing proposals and pricing for correcting deficiencies for customers.
• Reads and analyzes requests for proposals in developing professional responses for new construction work.
• Maintains a positive relationship with the customer by providing a high level of service and by meeting goals set by the customer and Ameritrack.
• Manages the operation ensuring that all conditions of the proposal are met.
• Manage inventory and vendor orders by going to jobs, making sure that all materials are on site in a timely fashion.
• Motivates and maintains a high level of morale among employees.
• Maintains a thorough knowledge of operating procedures, safety rules, and rail construction operations.
• Ensure that payroll, fuel costs, equipment costs, and other costs are managed effectively. Properly maintains the purchase order system. Develops and follows preventive maintenance program for all equipment with the assistance of the mechanical department.
• Assists in arranging work schedules so that each crew has a balanced mix of experience with appropriate expertise in all job types.
• Perform administrative duties including evaluation forms, filing reports required by the customer and the company (e.g. PO requests, safety audits, month end reporting, progress billing, end of project billing).

• Direct crews as to the work to be accomplished, making sure that crews have all the necessary information to complete the work on a timely basis. Provide support to the crews throughout the project.

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• College degree in Building and Construction Technology or equivalent construction management experience preferred

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as blueprints, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write professional proposals, routine reports and customer correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentage and to draw and interpret bar graphs. Ability to use a calculator.
  
  Ability to use Microsoft Excel and Word.

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with standard problems that occur in a construction 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 job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk extensively, reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
  
  This position requires extensive time in various weather conditions.

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.