Lead Estimator​/Sr. Project Manager

Overview

H&K Group, Inc. is looking for an experienced Lead Estimator/Sr. Project Manager to support public and private projects throughout central Pennsylvania. The Estimator/Project Manager plans, directs, and coordinates project activities to ensure goals are accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters. The ideal candidate is detail oriented, a team player, and a creative problem solver.

Why work for H&K Group, Inc.?

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience
• 100% Company-paid Health Benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan
• Company vehicle after 90-day probationary period
• Tuition reimbursement programs available to qualifying employees for approved programs
• Additional training programs including on the job, online through H&K Academy, manufacturer offered training, and more

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs all work according to OSHA and H&K Safety policies
• Maintain up-to-date project progress information and cost of labor and material data for project control and analysis
• Create and update at least monthly the overall schedule. Review schedules with the superintendent for each project including the required timetables for work performed by subcontractors
• Work as a team with assigned foreman and superintendent to build project in a controlled manner. Manage and coordinate with subcontractor
• Coordinate with purchasing the requisition of materials and furnish information for proper coding of invoices
• Provide modifications resulting in change orders
• Shares with the Estimator in the processing of plan revisions for change orders and distribute as required
• Process Additional Work Authorizations (AWA's) for change order submission
• Coordinate and process change orders or technical problems with client requirements, suppliers, superintendents, and subcontractors
• Review project cost reports each day
• Visit project sites for troubleshooting and for the purposes of ensuring project quality. Site visits to be at least once a week
• Oversee project security and safety
• Prepare project AIA Billing requisitions with project secretary
• Review all purchase orders, delivery tickets, subcontractor requisitions, and invoices to ensure they are coded correctly for project costing
• Maintain all project files: submittals, shop drawings, maintenance manuals, as-built drawings, punch lists
• Occasionally meet with all subcontractors/suppliers for project coordination
• Maintain a log for all submittals and shop drawings
• Assist with new project transitions and pre-job planning
• Chair all project meetings
• Meet or exceed project objectives as determined in the pre-job planning process
• Provide accurate percent complete status on projects to accounting each month
• Conduct a thorough analysis of job costs vs. budget each month
• Report to top management each month on gross margin improvement strategies and accomplishments
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills, Education, and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering or relevant field from an accredited four-year college or university
• A combination of education and experience may be considered
• Five years of experience in Heavy Civil Construction relevant to this region
• Driver's license and clean driving record
• Effective verbal and written communication
• Proficient computer skills including internet and Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel) and specialized project software
• Ability to fit test & utilize appropriate PPE as needed
• Ability to meet physical requirements (movement, lifting, as relevant to job)

Preferred Skills, Education, and Experience

• Ten years of experience in Heavy Civil Construction relevant to this region
• Certified PE
• OSHA and/or other applicable safety certifications and training

• Regularly required to:
  Sit;
  Use hands to finder, handle or feel;
  Talk or hear
• Occasionally required to:
  Stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl;
  Reach with hands and arms;
  Lift and/or move up to 10 pounds
• Specific vision abilities:
  Close;
  Color;
  Ability to adjust focus

• Regularly required to drive
• Occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions
• Noise level is usually moderate
• Regularly exceeds 40 hours/week

The H&K Group, Inc. provides complete heavy civil contracting and construction materials solutions with safety, speed, quality, efficiency, and value. Beginning as a small family business a half century ago, we are now a dynamic group of vertically integrated companies that has been growing and prospering for over 50 years.

Thank you for your interest in employment with H&K Group, Inc. At H&K, we invest in our people, providing the essential training, instruction, and supervisory support that they need to develop and grow within our company. We acknowledge that H&K's strength and success is directly related to our employees and the talents, dedication, and job performance they exemplify. We seek dynamic, motivated people who are driven to make a difference.

H&K does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis…