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Estimator, Dredging & Marine - Michels Construction, Inc.

Michels Corporation · Milwaukee, WI · 1 mo ago
ManufacturingFull-time
We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we need headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We need to parse the posting. Content: Intro: "If you like variety and challenge and take satisfaction from knowing your work supports marine sustainability, consider joining the Michels Construction, Inc., Marine Operations team. Marine Operations provides services to include mechanical and hydraulic dredging, certified commercial diving, lock and dam repair, inspection, and debris removal, just to name a few. The end product might not be visible, but it will be essential. Our work improves lives. Find out how a career at Michels Construction, Inc. can change yours." That's about the role/company. Could be "About the role" or "About the company". We'll use "About the role". It's prose. Then: "As an Estimator, your key responsibilities will be to evaluate bid specifications and drawings, attending pre-bid meetings, soliciting material and subcontractor quotes, and ensuring that everything required to successfully bid and win the project is accomplished. This position will also work with Project Management teams to follow-up on bids and budgets to close the business. It is essential to be forward thinking, performance driven and quality focused. Critical for success are the abilities to work independently and produce highly accurate work in a timely manner." That's responsibilities. Then: "Why Michels Construction, Inc.? We support dynamic and growing industriesWe are family owned and operatedWe invest an average of $5,000 per employee on training each yearWe reward hard work and dedication with limitless opportunitiesWe are a part of the Michels family of companies – one of North America’s largest, most diversified energy and infrastructure contractorsWe offer a comprehensive benefits program, including Health, Dental, Life, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account, Short Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance, 401(k) plan, Legal Plan, and Identity Theft and Monitoring Plan. Depending on your positions and location you may participate in a different benefit plan." That's benefits (and maybe also about company). We'll treat as Benefits. Then: "Why you? You want to win.You thrive in fast-paced environments You relish new challenges and evolving technologyYou want your work to be meaningfulYou enjoy collaborating and communicating with your teammatesYou like to know your efforts are noticed and appreciatedYou are flexible and optimistic" That's maybe "Qualifications" or "Skills"? Actually these are personal attributes; could be "Skills" or "Qualifications". We'll treat as "Skills" (soft skills). Or maybe "Qualifications". The posting also has "What It Takes" with specific qualifications: Bachelor’s degree..., 3-5 years..., Proficient..., Working knowledge..., Negotiation experience..., Must posses a valid driver license..., Position requires around 25% travel... That's requirements/qualifications. We need to decide sections: About the role (intro), Responsibilities, Requirements (or Qualifications), Skills (soft skills), Benefits. Possibly also "Pay" and "Schedule" not present (no pay or schedule specifics). So we omit those. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate like EEO line, privacy policy link, etc. We need to preserve all substantive information. Ensure we don't lose any detail. Let's extract each piece precisely. Intro paragraph: "If you like variety and challenge and take satisfaction from knowing your work supports marine sustainability, consider joining the Michels Construction, Inc., Marine Operations team. Marine Operations provides services to include mechanical and hydraulic dredging, certified commercial diving, lock and dam repair, inspection, and debris removal, just to name a few. The end product might not be visible, but it will be essential. Our work improves lives. Find out how a career at Michels Construction, Inc. can change yours." We'll keep as

. Responsibilities: "As an Estimator, your key responsibilities will be to evaluate bid specifications and drawings, attending pre-bid meetings, soliciting material and subcontractor quotes, and ensuring that everything required to successfully bid and win the project is accomplished. This position will also work with Project Management teams to follow-up on bids and budgets to close the business. It is essential to be forward thinking, performance driven and quality focused. Critical for success are the abilities to work independently and produce highly accurate work in a timely manner." We could break into

  • for list of duties? The responsibilities include multiple items: evaluate bid specifications and drawings; attending pre-bid meetings; soliciting material and subcontractor quotes; ensuring that everything required to successfully bid and win the project is accomplished; work with Project Management teams to follow-up on bids and budgets to close the business; be forward thinking, performance driven and quality focused; abilities to work independently and produce highly accurate work in a timely manner. Some are phrases. We'll put each as
  • . Ensure we keep the meaning. But note: The sentence "It is essential to be forward thinking, performance driven and quality focused." and "Critical for success are the abilities to work independently and produce highly accurate work in a timely manner." Could be separate bullets. We'll produce
    • Evaluate bid specifications and drawings
    • Attend pre-bid meetings
    • Solicit material and subcontractor quotes
    • Ensure that everything required to successfully bid and win the project is accomplished
    • Work with Project Management teams to follow-up on bids and budgets to close the business
    • Be forward thinking, performance driven, and quality focused
    • Work independently and produce highly accurate work in a timely manner
    Now Requirements/Qualifications: The "What It Takes" section: "Bachelor’s degree in construction management, or equivalent degree from a 4-year college or university, 3-5 years of related heavy civil construction, marine construction, or dredging estimating experience, or equivalent combination Proficient in Microsoft Office SuiteWorking knowledge of estimating and scheduling software (HCSS, B2W)Negotiation experienceMust posses a valid driver license for the type(s) of vehicles which may be driven and an acceptable driving recordPosition requires around 25% travel for jobsite visits, pre-bid meetings, and pre-construction meeting." We need to separate into list items. Also note missing spaces due to formatting; we need to reconstruct. Let's parse: - Bachelor’s degree in construction management, or equivalent degree from a 4-year college or university, - 3-5 years of related heavy civil construction, marine construction, or dredging estimating experience, or equivalent combination - Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite - Working knowledge of estimating and scheduling software (HCSS, B2W) - Negotiation experience - Must possess a valid driver license for the type(s) of vehicles which may be driven and an acceptable driving record - Position requires around 25% travel for jobsite visits, pre-bid meetings, and pre-construction meeting. We'll make
    • for each. Now Skills/Attributes: "Why you? You want to win.You thrive in fast-paced environments You relish new challenges and evolving technologyYou want your work to be meaningfulYou enjoy collaborating and communicating with your teammatesYou like to know your efforts are noticed and appreciatedYou are flexible and optimistic" We need to separate sentences. There's missing spaces after periods. We'll reconstruct: - You want to win. - You thrive in fast-paced environments - You relish new challenges and evolving technology - You want your work to be meaningful - You enjoy collaborating and communicating with your teammates - You like to know your efforts are noticed and appreciated - You are flexible and optimistic We'll put as
      • items. Now Benefits: "We offer a comprehensive benefits program, including Health, Dental, Life, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account, Short Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance, 401(k) plan, Legal Plan, and Identity Theft and Monitoring Plan. Depending on your positions and location you may participate in a different benefit plan." Also earlier: "We support dynamic and growing industriesWe are family owned and operatedWe invest an average of $5,000 per employee on training each yearWe reward hard work and dedication with limitless opportunitiesWe are a part of the Michels family of companies – one of North America’s largest, most diversified energy and infrastructure contractors" That's also about company/benefits? Could be part of "Why Michels Construction, Inc." which is more about company attributes. Could be a section "About the company" but we only have headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We could put company attributes under "About the role" or maybe "Benefits"? The training investment etc is not a benefit but a company attribute. Could be part of "About the role". However we already used About the role for intro. Could we add another paragraph about company under same heading? The instruction: "Use

        for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It suggests we can have multiple sections with those headings. It didn't forbid multiple paragraphs under a heading. So we can keep About the role heading and include both intro and company attributes (why Michels) as paragraphs under that heading. However we also have a separate Benefits heading for benefits program. The "Why Michels" includes both company attributes and benefits. We'll split: company attributes (dynamic industries, family owned, training investment, reward hard work, part of Michels family) under About the role. Benefits under Benefits heading. Thus:

        About the role

        Intro paragraph...

        We support dynamic and growing industries. We are family owned and operated. We invest an average of $5,000 per employee on training each year. We reward hard work and dedication with limitless opportunities. We are a part of the Michels family of companies – one of North America’s largest, most diversified energy and infrastructure contractors.

        Then Responsibilities heading with ul. Then Requirements heading (or Qualifications). Which heading to use? The list includes both Requirements and Qualifications as possible headings. We need to decide which to use. The posting has "What It Takes" which is qualifications/requirements. Could use either Requirements or Qualifications. Since we have both headings available, we need to pick one that fits. The content includes education, experience, skills, license, travel. That's more like Requirements/Qualifications. We'll choose "Requirements". Or we could use "Qualifications". The instruction says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We have many sections already; we could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one heading. Choose "Requirements". We'll not also have Qualifications. Then Skills heading for soft skills. Then Benefits heading for benefits program. We must not include Pay or Schedule. Now ensure we preserve all substantive information: we have included all details. Check for any missing: The line "Depending on your positions and location you may participate in a different benefit plan." included under Benefits. Also note: The original text had "We offer a comprehensive benefits program, including Health, Dental, Life, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account, Short Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance, 401(k) plan, Legal Plan, and Identity Theft and Monitoring Plan." We'll keep that. Now ensure we removed boilerplate: EEO line, privacy policy link, etc. Also removed duplicated lines? Not seeing duplicates. Now produce HTML fragment. We'll need to wrap each section in

        and then content. Let's craft:

        About the role

        If you like variety and challenge and take satisfaction from knowing your work supports marine sustainability, consider joining the Michels Construction, Inc., Marine Operations team. Marine Operations provides services to include mechanical and hydraulic dredging, certified commercial diving, lock and dam repair, inspection, and debris removal, just to name a few. The end product might not be visible,

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