Candidate Qualifications

  • Experience in the industry or the completion or expected completion of a two- or four-year degree in the field of construction, engineering, or finance.
  • Proficient with technology and software, including MS Office Suite of tools. Exposure to scheduling and/or estimating software beneficial.
  • Demonstration of mathematical proficiency.
  • Able to gather information to solve problems.
  • Good personal/inter-personal/communication skills.
  • Organized and thorough.
  • Great work ethic, flexible mindset.
  • Dependable/reliable and self-motivated, eager to learn.
  • Good attitude, even-tempered.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive salary.
  • New employees are entitled to full medical, dental and vision insurance coverage (100% of premiums paid by RPD) on the first day of the month following a 60-day eligibility period.
  • Spouses and children are entitled to full medical, dental and vision insurance coverage on the first day of the month following a 12- month eligibility period.
  • RPD offers a 401K Plan for each employee with eligibility beginning after 12-months of consecutive employment with RPD. The company offers 100% contribution matching up to 8% of the employee’s gross earnings.
  • State-mandated sick leave/pay and paid vacation.
  • RPD offers a tuition reimbursement program.
  • Annual employee performance and valuation reviews.

Role of Project Estimator at RPD

It is not just a job, but is a great career, full of purpose and challenge. Estimating is the start of the project lifecycle at RPD. Our estimating team reviews and processes hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of civil construction work annually. The team is responsible for maintaining client relationships, procuring the work that keeps the entire company going, and for facilitating growth which provides opportunities for everyone. RPD is a growing company with 100+ employees, so there is a lot of responsibility on the estimating team to keep the work coming.

Estimating requires a unique personality and skillset. It is a deadline-driven endeavor that is like trying to solve a puzzle for which you don't always have all the pieces. Counting and crunching numbers is the easy part – an estimator spends most of their time in the office, either studying plans or staring at a computer screen. Understanding the work that we do is most important because you must build the project in your mind while arriving at the cost to do it. We have a proven process that provides reliable results.

Quality subcontractor and material vendor relationships must be built and maintained. The job requires immense focus, diligence, and stamina, in conjunction with great organization and communication skills.

Project Estimators support the estimating team in various capacities while learning the nature of our culture, our projects, our approach and our systems. Responsibilities will increase over time as the applicant gains applicable knowledge and experience. We are eager to train the right candidate to learn our business and/or our methods and to participate in the process of procuring heavy civil construction work.

Specific estimating responsibilities include:

  • Learning to review and understand project plans and specifications.
  • Learning residential civil construction methodologies and strategies.
  • Learning estimating basics.
  • Performing quantity and material take-offs.
  • Compiling project estimating data.
  • Learning to produce project estimates, budgets, variances and cashflow analyses.
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Role of Project Manager at RPD

Awarded projects are handed over to our project management team to build. Our team of Project Managers,Project Engineers and Project Superintendents currently construct ~$60-80M worth of work each year. Theyare highly experienced, highly skilled, and highly relational, contributing to our great reputation and successin the industry.

Construction is a very challenging, high-paced occupation that requires organization, great communication,and the ability to solve complex problems. Project Managers are responsible for the success of everyproject, which involves dealing with people, money, and deadlines. So, it can be a very high stress position.

Project Managers are primarily responsible to ensure the success of each project, which means:

  • Customer satisfaction, the result of:
    • Great communication.
    • Assistance with project approvals and unforeseen challenges.
    • Coordination with governing jurisdictions.
    • Minimizing extra costs.
    • Timely completion.
    • Providing a high-quality product.
  • Mitigating risk – both a function of operational safety and contractual obligation.
  • Project administration
    • Contract administration.
    • Plans and specs.
    • Pay applications.
    • Change order management.
    • Cost reporting.
    • Maintain project schedule.
    • Submittal approvals.
    • Subcontractor & supplier coordination.
    • Project priorities.
  • Problem solving.
  • Financial profitability .
  • Empowering and supporting Project Superintendents to execute the work as efficiently and effectively as possible.
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Role of Project Engineer at RPD

Project Engineers support the project estimating and project management teams in various capacitieswhile learning the nature of our culture, our projects, our approach and our systems. Essentially anassistant Project Manager, responsibilities increase over time as the Project Engineer gains applicableknowledge and experience. A Project Engineer could work for multiple Project Managers on multipleprojects at one time and/or could be pulled in to help with a project estimate.

In our context, the path to Project Management is through Project Estimating and Project Engineering,providing training and support while learning the cost and acquisition side of the job, then transitioning to anassistant Project Management role. The goal is to cross-train candidates in both capacities while they learnour business and culture, prior to actually running work.

Specific project engineering functions include:

  • Plan reviews, scope of work, pre-job planning.
  • Submittal review, cut sheets, shop drawings.
  • Subcontracts.
  • Coordination/communication with subcontractors.
  • Coordination/communication with JHA’s (Jurisdictions Having Authority).
  • Project meetings, meeting note drafting and distribution.
  • RFI’s (Request for Information) and Engineer coordination.
  • Project scheduling.
  • Job costing and quantity reporting using GPS.
  • Change orders.
  • Value engineering.
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