Build What Matters. Build Your Future.
Catamount builds the spaces communities depend on every day. From distribution centers that keep goods moving and medical facilities that provide critical care, to housing, restaurants, and fire stations serving local neighborhoods, our work supports real life. As a best-in-class, 100% employee-owned general contractor with a national reach, we complete projects across diverse markets and regions. This diversity empowers us, keeps our teams moving forward, and creates long-term opportunities for the people shaping our company.
Why choose Catamount?
We’re financially stable, growing, and built for the long haul. Our extensive national backlog and diverse project types provide stability, momentum, and opportunities. At Catamount, careers advance. Employee-owners can grow, move between project types and markets, and build long-term careers without starting over. Teams are carefully staffed, work-life balance is prioritized, and our people are seen as long-term assets.
Diverse work. Real stability. Shared success.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Maintain a strong understanding of the contract from the project onset
- Stay current during the construction process by accurately documenting project updates, as well as maintaining numerous logs and documenting changes as needed
- Using strong negotiation skills, establishes the appropriate purchasing plan, and makes solid and timely decisions for the company and the project during the buyout process
- Support the Superintendent, who is the primary person responsible for the project schedule, post the monthly schedule, and take appropriate action to maintain or improve schedule whenever possible
- Creating and maintaining relationships with the project owners and acting on their behalf, think proactively, and handle their needs with a sense of urgency and in a timely manner
- Facilitate Owner, Architect, and Contractor meetings, generating agenda and minutes
- Submit owner pay applications correctly and timely
- Maintain open communication with subcontractors. Review and approve subcontractor invoices and change orders, and process change orders as necessary
- Ensure conformity with contract documents and scope of work, as well as address issues of underperformance if it arises
Skills & Qualifications:
- People and project management skills and abilities
- Refined organizational skills, and the ability to prioritize tasks for self, team, and projects
- Outstanding communication skills (listening, presenting, interpersonal and written)
- Advanced mathematic and reasoning ability, and strong negotiating skills
- Experience preferably with a general contractor
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, preferably within the Construction Sciences, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience with (or ability to learn) Procore
Compensation:
- In addition to offering competitive base pay, Catamount employees are eligible for additional incentives for merit/performance, project incentives, new hire referrals, and business development commissions.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- A culture that develops leaders. Grow alongside experienced mentors in an environment rooted in accountability, trust, and shared success.
- Work that builds careers. With projects spanning multiple markets, you’ll have opportunities to grow, specialize, and evolve as your career goals take shape.
- 100% employee-owned. Our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) aligns our employee-owners with our mission. When Catamount succeeds, employee-owners share that success.
- Benefits that support everyday life. Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; life insurance; short- and long-term disability coverage; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); a 401(k); an ESOP; a generous VacationFlex program; paid sick time; and optional programs such as pet insurance and AFLAC accident, critical illness, and hospital policies.
Please refer to the Summary Plan Descriptions for eligibility requirements and additional details.
Catamount Constructors Incorporated does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or recruiting firms. Any resume submitted to any employee of Catamount without a prior executed agreement will be considered unsolicited and the property of Catamount Constructors Incorporated. Recruiting agencies - thank you for not calling or emailing.
Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace:
Catamount Constructors, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. Employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.
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