Construction Business Development Manager - Growth & Budgets

Hill & Wilkinson General Contractors; Temple (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health

Basic life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

College 529 plan

Paid Holidays

Paid Vacations

Job summary

Hill & Wilkinson is seeking a Business Development Manager to identify and develop construction opportunities in central Texas. The role involves building relationships with facility owners, plant managers, and developers, and carrying out budgeting and estimating to open doors with clients.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years in construction, strong communication and negotiation skills, and the ability to balance BD duties with budgeting and takeoffs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in construction, business development, estimating, or related field.
• Demonstrated ability to develop relationships and generate construction opportunities.
• Construction estimating experience with the ability to independently develop project budgets and proposals.
• Working knowledge of construction means and methods, subcontractor scopes, materials, labor, and project costs.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, and scopes of work.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify and develop new construction and facility capital improvement opportunities within the manufacturing, mission critical/data center, and healthcare markets.
• Develop and maintain relationships with facility owners, plant managers, operators, property managers and developers.
• Prospect for both planned and unplanned capital improvement, renovation, maintenance, and construction projects.
• Develop a strong understanding of client facilities and proactively identify potential projects before they are formally bid.
• Monitor upcoming projects, facility expansions, renovations, equipment installations, infrastructure upgrades, and other construction-related opportunities.
• Build and maintain a healthy project pipeline and accurately communicate opportunity size, timing, probability, and next steps.
• Prepare proposals, scopes of work, budgets, and presentations in coordination with the operations team.
• Develop long-term client relationships that generate repeat and negotiated work.
• Perform takeoffs and develop estimates for small-sized construction and capital improvement projects.
• Review drawings, specifications, scopes of work, site conditions, and client requirements.
• Identify project risks, exclusions, assumptions, and potential change-order opportunities.

Skills

Relationship building

Negotiation

Communication

Budgeting

Estimating

Reading drawings

Microsoft Office

Travel willingness

Tools

Microsoft Office

Construction estimating software

Job description

Hill & Wilkinson is seeking a Business Development Manager to identify and develop construction opportunities in central Texas. The role involves building relationships with facility owners, plant managers, and developers, and carrying out budgeting and estimating to open doors with clients.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years in construction, strong communication and negotiation skills, and the ability to balance BD duties with budgeting and takeoffs.