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Custom Design Studio- Estimator & Planner

Position Overview

Shaw Industries is looking for an Estimator & Planner for our Custom Design Studio, to provide the field sales person, client, project designer, and carpet installer with the information, documents and carpet installation/Seaming plans necessary to correctly order and install hospitality and commercial carpets for a project.

Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, and is a global leader in delivering carpet, hardwood, tile & stone, laminate, synthetic turf, and other specialty products to residential and commercial markets worldwide. We are committed to creating a better future for our customers, our people, our company, and our communities.

Responsibilities:

• Correctly understand and comprehend plans and create application designs for the appropriate materials, and the areas in which the materials will be installed.

• Calculate the quantities of the materials required for the project based on the application designs.

• Produce a neat, detailed, systematic set of carpet installation/seaming plans complete with carpet images using AutoCAD and other computer programs.

• Identify, research, and resolve project application concerns and difficulties with the customer, project designer, and carpet installer.

• Create manufacturing layouts for custom hospitality carpets which enable the Chromajet printer/CYP and other carpet to fit products to be manufactured in the various forms of carpet borders (with corners), carpet rugs, and carpet panels, etc…

• Accurately total all material quantities (custom pattern carpets, carpet bases, adhesives, seam sealers etc.), and list all material information (pattern nos., pattern repeats, installation locations, etc.) in an estimating quote report which is supplied to the customer, field sales person, and Estimating Dept. records.

• Provide the customer, field sales person, and project designer with an estimating quote report and AutoCAD carpet installation/seaming plans (in color) via facsimile and overnight courier service, and confirming proper deliveries.

• Render AutoCAD plans, which are utilized by the Custom Design Studio, to create 2-D color computer drawings of completed projects for the customer and project designer.

• Properly log all project information, activities, and results and file the project report and AutoCAD plans correctly for future reference and updates ensuring hard copies, as well as computer files, are all securely retained and accessible.

• Prepare projects for distribution, including final approval by the Estimating Manager, by performing thorough, inclusive checks of projects completed by other Estimator/AutoCAD Application Designers ensuring errorless projects.

• Coordinate any changes, additions, or developments that relate to a completed project with the customer, project designer, and field sales person by correctly revising the estimating quote report, AutoCAD carpet installation/seaming plans, manufacturing layouts, etc., and distributing the revised materials to the appropriate people.

• Record and reserve copies of all revised information for a project keeping the project file, plans, and project computer files in chronological order.

• Maintain and execute general service requirements associated with computer plotters and large plan copy machines.

• Operate effectively with other departments of Custom Design Stud (Design Dept., Strike-off Dept., Production Dept., Sales, Customer and Manufacturing) generating successful project completions.

Competencies:

• Execute Action Plan

• Build Customer Satisfaction

• Adapt and Change

• Build Trusting Relationships

• Innovation

Requirements:

• High School/GED - General knowledge of the floor covering industry.

• Experience with floor covering installation procedures.

• Demonstrated project estimating experience preferred

• Demonstrated the ability to read and interpret blue prints

• Demonstrated ability of mathematics, specifically fractions, measurements, and reading a ruler.

• Demonstrated ability to apply geometric concepts needed to scale and measure plans.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate both written and oral

Preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree and equivalent work experience

• AutoCAD

• Microsoft Office

Shaw benefits include:

• Medical, dental, vision insurance and Pet insurance

• Life insurance and disability coverage

• Tuition reimbursement

• Employee assistance program

• Health savings account

• Paid Time Off

• Parental Leave

• 401K and Retirement Plans

• Product discounts for employees

• Gym membership discounts

• Adoption assistance

• Shaw Family Health Center (Dalton, GA, and Cartersville, GA, locations)

• And much more.

Work Shift

8 Hr non-rotating shift, Hrs fall to in punch day, Observed Calendar, shift starts AM

Shaw Industries is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.