POSITION SUMMARY

SALES, CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS, AND FOLLOW-UP

• Represent Vancouver Paint Group and Hooton Wallcovering professionally with general contractors, owners, customers, project managers, and jobsite superintendents.
• Attend site walks, pre-bid meetings, customer meetings, and finish or scope reviews as needed.
• Ask questions early to understand finish expectations, schedule pressure, budget concerns, phasing, access, product selections, and customer priorities.
• Explain the company's experience, responsiveness, safety standards, product knowledge, quality expectations, and ability to execute.
• Follow up on bids, answer questions, clarify scope, and help move opportunities toward award.
• Communicate preparation assumptions, product requirements, inclusions, exclusions, finish standards, and overall value clearly.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Review plans, specifications, finish schedules, elevations, addenda, and bid documents for painting and wallcovering scope.
• Prepare quantity takeoffs for interior and exterior painting, coatings, wallcovering, specialty finishes, and related work.
• Identify substrates, finish types, preparation requirements, primers, coatings, wallcovering materials, quantities, alternates, and exclusions.
• Identify clarifications, RFIs, scope gaps, schedule concerns, and addenda changes.
• Build clear estimating worksheets, pricing summaries, bid notes, proposals, alternates, and scope letters for internal review and customer use.
• Solicit and review vendor pricing for paint, coatings, wallcovering, specialty materials, equipment, and related scope.
• Coordinate with project managers, superintendents, vendors, suppliers, general contractors, and customers.
• Track bid deadlines, customer follow-up, estimate revisions, and supporting documentation.
• Support project handoff so production understands scope, budgets, finish requirements, exclusions, schedule expectations, and customer commitments.
• Assist with change-order pricing, budget updates, material coordination, finish clarification, scope revisions, and other light project management duties as needed.
• Identify issues that could affect budget, manpower, schedule, quality, finish expectations, or customer satisfaction.
• Maintain organized estimate files, plans, schedules, supplier quotes, notes, communications, and bid documentation.
• Perform duties in compliance with company policies, processes, and procedures.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• High school diploma or GED preferred.
• Painting, wallcovering, coatings, construction estimating, or related field experience preferred; strong trade experience may be considered in place of formal estimating experience.
• Ability to read and understand construction drawings, finish schedules, specifications, addenda, and scopes of work.
• Professional communication skills for working with customers, contractors, vendors, project managers, and field crews.
• Comfort with customer-facing sales conversations, site walks, follow-up calls, and scope clarification.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple bids and priorities.
• Basic computer skills, including email, PDF plan review, and spreadsheets.
• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation preferred for jobsite visits.

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Experience with commercial painting, wallcovering, coatings, specialty finishes, tenant improvements, hospitality, retail, maintenance work, or related construction.
• Experience with Bluebeam, PlanSwift, On-Screen Takeoff, or similar estimating tools.
• Experience with BuildingConnected, Procore, Smartsheet, Microsoft Excel, or similar platforms.
• Understanding of labor productivity, material waste, surface preparation, product limitations, access, phasing, and field sequencing.
• Ability to build relationships and communicate value, not just price.

BENEFITS

• Health insurance, 50% employer paid
• Dental insurance, 50% employer paid
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off and select paid holidays
• Eligibility for the company incentive and bonus program

ADDITIONAL NOTES