ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION PREFABRICATION MANAGEMENT

ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION PREFABRICATION MANAGEMENT

This is an opportunity to build a business unit within a very large, old and stable electrical design/build company. We are one of the country?s top designer builders and have more and more applied prefabrication techniques in our construction projects. Because we were never a ?residential? or ?multifamily? builder, and concentrated our efforts on heavy commercial, light industrial, public works and government specialty design + constructions, the call for a dedicated prefabrication system was not as strong in our business as in other commercial contracting businesses. We have taken a closer look at prefabrication for all our business models. What we have determined is that there is room for innovative prefabrication in many of our constructions and the reasons for using prefabrication are wide and varied. On that basis, we intend to build a refined, high-performance prefabrication business and need a suitable person to help forge and run a first class prefab operation.


We need a manager for our prefabrication operations, and these operations could be considered in their infancy, even though we crashed through the 100 million dollar company sales barrier nearly a decade ago. New facilities are being built and prefab is included in the plans. The idea of upgrading a fledgling prefabrication business requests a special leader. It is a tough job because the person who will succeed has to have mixed experience and be willing to work in a nearly start-up business environment. The manager will have to have technical electrical construction imagination and inventiveness, financial business sense, specific electrical construction experience to make assessments of the goodness of prefab applications and their economic justifications, intuitive engineering experience to design good systems, tooling and process smarts to make for efficient manufacturing, managerial experience, financial management experience, administrative experience and the ability to plan and schedule a mission critical manufacturing operation.

As I mentioned earlier, we are building a new facility that will house this operation in the Mid-Atlantic and that includes planned space for the prefabrication shop. The importance of the prefabrication operations is understood, there is complete commitment to the process, to tooling and staffing prefab, and we are going to build a successful prefabrication business.

WHY YOU SHOULD BE INTERESTED

We are one of the most successful designer / builders in the country. We are doing the most varied and sophisticated electrical construction work in the US, can bond jobs of any size (literally hundreds of million of EC dollars), and have plans for our controlled growth in many markets. To start the prefabrication business for us (or upgrade it more correctly) is to begin an enterprise which must become a thematic part of all our construction operations. Prefabrication has the potential to be a genuinely large business within our system, and will grow with is. To the point: If you can build and run a prefab business, we are the place to do it, because our growth and strength will insure your operations? ceaseless opportunities in an expanding marketplace.

The job responsibilities include a review of electrical systems designs, both those engineered in house and those we might bid, and making an assessment of if and where the pre-manufacture of sub-assemblies would be cost beneficial when weighed against the cost of doing that work in the field.

Hi-rise, dormitories and other repetitive modules make obvious targets but ?assembled and tested components? with assemblies that are easy to transport without damage and can be installed by helper status labor may make sense in many applications. Critical assemblies are also targets for prefab, where some assemblies are very hard to access for maintenance or even cast into a slab and are essentially unserviceable. Mission critical status, and the need for pre-testing before assembly into an integrated electrical system may alter that pre-fabricate or not decision. The ability to install tested components in those situations may offset the cost of a single failure and it may make a small prefabrication run the right decision.

Your ingenuity and smarts in applying creative manufacturing techniques or innovative use of devices and systems may radically change the economic possibilities for the prefabricated systems. Really compressed project schedules may be an additional driver for prefab, where subassembly prefabrication helps control a tight schedule.

What makes this a challenging job is the number of important roles and different skills required to get this overall job accomplished. The client will initially be our internal electrical construction operations. The job involves the review of electrical and architectural plans with estimating and operations, the identification of potential pre-fabrication opportunities, the estimating of unit price manufacturing (time, materials, test, handling, packing shipping), determining production schedule possibilities, and setting up to do the work. Ultimately as the business unit grows, you will make staffing and tooling decisions. This will be a P&L center and you will have P&L responsibility. The mission of the prefabrication business is to sell operations lower overall cost to install, but you will run your operation as a profit center. Well run, this prefab operation has the potential to become a big operation and you may be the person to develop it in other locations for us. We are a quarter billion dollar private business, and have business under contract now that will be under construction for the next ten years. The management of prefabrication operations is a huge opportunity working in our system. Beyond all of that, we will not limit sales for this department to internal clients. If you see profitable opportunities building for the outside in ways that do not compete with our business, you will be able to pursue those opportunities.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES OVERVIEW:Review jobs for potential pre-fabrication opportunity.
Collect estimating data on jobs coming in, discuss the prefab ideas with the branch management, superintendents and foremen to arrive on a decision to prefabricate.
Estimate pre-fabricated unit assembly cost in terms of non-recurring expenditures (setup, jigs, fixtures, tools, tooling) time, materials, QC and test for the sub-assemblies proposed based on real quantities extracted from the job estimates.
Review pricing and get operational buy in.
Estimate manufacturing schedules and confirm with operations for signoff and production order.
Generate a work order which translates into a purchase order with quantity, price and delivery for each prefab job.
Manage manufacturing operations, which initially will involve a hands-on approach, gradually changing as the business grows and the number of full time employees can be added.
Develop production techniques, which can include design of specialized tools, automation, use of contract assemblers, and use of subcontractors with specifically applicable capabilities for unique situations.
Train assemblers on new components.
Manufacture, pack, distribute to jobs and bill against those jobs.
Prepare and maintain a budget and ultimately a business plan. Management responsibilities includes planning, purchasing, recording reviewing and posting purchases, inventory and inventory control, productivity recording (quantities and units), billing. Everything it takes to run a business under control is part of this job.
Forecasting is a part of these responsibilities.
Staff review and expansion as necessary.
Hire, fire, mentor and train staff members.
Delegate and assign work.
Oversee quality assurance and quality control. Set up QA and QC programs for the prefabrication operations.
Manage testing.
Assure safe operations.
COMPANY HISTORY AND CULTURE

We have been an electrical construction leader for more than fifty years, but we are not a conventional electrical contractor. We are a true, self-contained designer and builder, and our design capabilities stand against the industries top E, MEP and A/E consulting firms.

We have a number of divisions that blend first tier consulting engineering with a full implementation, commissioning service, service (emergency repair, special small constructions, and critical systems maintenance), and perpetual maintenance program(s). We design and build electrical power systems all the way from true high voltage systems to a large business unit we run in low voltage systems design/build specialties. We have more registered professional engineers on staff, and engineering specialists in general than the big national engineering firms in areas that we have bricks and mortar presence.

From the client perspective we are single point of responsibility for conceptual design, feasibility analysis, hard engineering design, build-out and commissioning. With a single responsible firm doing engineering, construction and billing, administrative simplicity for that client and overall schedule integrity are greatly enhanced. Overall cost is lower too. The difficulties and disagreements that take place between consultants and contractors that are often the source of delays and can even compromise the quality of the final product are eliminated employing us as the designer and builder. We are a more effective solution in every way. Clients, even the big government clients on mega-projects, are catching on.

The business was started by electricians and we never loose sight of the strength we enjoy that comes from the field, but we are also innovators, technical leaders, business leaders and visionaries and that is why we have the work. We have grown every year while maintaining cash reserves. We are without bonding limits. We pay all the vendors on time and can deal with any and all of them.

Our culture is built around a well-defined mission presented by straightforward and qualified leaders. You will be dealing with smart, reasonable, high performance leadership. Our culture is an open-minded culture. The smarter, better, faster way is something we are always open to. We are seeking constant improvement, not suppressing it. We are a vital, high morale competitive business.

We employ the most modern internal management systems, and these systems are tested and proven on electrical jobs from half a million to hundreds of millions of electrical construction dollars. We have the most current tools for business management, design and construction. The computer systems are cutting edge. Our job estimating process is sophisticated and complete, taking into consideration construction phases and unit costs. We have a strong IT department. The fact that we are deeply involved in design and build of very high technology facilities that include command control centers and mission critical data centers has helped us develop and perfect our own systems. Our own facilities reflect the best of the best. We also have highly specialized facilities like Compartmented Information Centers for working on classified federal programs. This is a company that sets the standards for the industries we compete in.

We have grown steadily and have made money for those 60+ years. The contributing employees that have invested in careers with us have enjoyed substantial personal career growth. The growth rate for the overall business is increasing rather than slowing down and that means real career mobility and huge growth opportunity for ambitious people in our organization.

Our management is really down to earth and if you are talented, the issue will not be getting along with your coworkers here. We are not a fan of politicians. We are nice people and we are quick to recognize and reward quality people.

THINGS TO THINK ABOUT BEFORE SENDING US INFORMATION

Prefabrication is a ?speed? process by its very nature. Once operations commits a purchase order for the services of the prefabrication department, that project or projects and those operational teams associated with them are depending upon your prefabrication operations to deliver those assembles on time and ready to deploy. There will always be schedule pressure. To make this work you must be a business analyst and inventor to see the opportunities and answer them with smart prefabricated systems. You have to be an intuitive engineer not only on the design side, but also on the manufacturing process side of the business. You must be a bit of an entrepreneur to build a relatively new profit center and grow this sector of the business. You must be a disciplined manufacturing manager to perfect systems and processes, train and motivate your staff, and meet commitments. It is a P&L responsible job, which requires solid basic financial skills. Boiled down, you are the president of a prefab business with a demanding internal client. This is not an 8 - 4:30 job for years to come. The words laid back and new prefabrication business cannot be crunched into the same sentence logically. Hard but rewarding work this is.

JOB QUALIFICATIONSExperience developing prefabricated systems for use in electrical power constructions (commercial, institutional and industrial).
Management experience that includes planning, resource allocation, budget creation and the assignment of tasks to others. Past responsibility for the performance of a staff and the performance and financial results of your department or project.
Ingenuity.
You need to have strong electrical estimating skills and the ability to interpret building systems drawings of all types.
Personal history as a licensed electrician would be very helpful. Expertise in electrical construction circumstances for large commercial and light industrial electrical construction projects will be required. We believe that a strong business minded general superintendent or senior project manager may be a good prospect for this opportunity.
Experience developing processes for manufacturing electrical power distribution assemblies.
Experience with managing a manufacturing or assembly process.
Good prioritization and organization skills are required.
Self-discipline and determination are required.
A history of having repeatedly proven yourself a capable manager is necessary here.
You must have good basic electrical design skills.
Deep code knowledge and excellent related research skills will be called on.
Scheduling experience.
Good computer skills. Computer comfort.
Basic accounting / financial skills.
You must have leadership skills.
Negotiation skills for purchasing and management.
Passion for your work.
We need a US permanent resident. Preference will be given to US citizens because we do specialized federal work that often requires that.
You must have a valid drivers license.
You must be ambitious.
LOCATION:

This operation will be located in the mid-Altantic. The specific location has a low cost of living, is physically beautiful, has a good culture, available labor of good quality, and reasonable proximity to all our East Coast operations.

PAY AND BENEFITS PACKAGE

We are thinking about a base salary of between $80-110,000.00. We have and excellent and inclusive benefits program including medical, dental, paid vacations and a 401K with a match. There will be formal reviews and bonus is paid for success and merit. With a P&L operation, your performance will be easy to assess, and if you are getting the job done, we will keep you happy.

Please send us a resume and any kind of cover letter that makes it clear that you are a good fit for this position. All applications will be regarded as strictly CONFIDENTIAL. We will contact nobody at all without your permission and a single person will review your information and contact you BEFORE moving the resume on to others in the company.

EMAIL: construction@entermail.net
SUBJECT LINE: NEWPREFAB