Design-build firms job descriptions
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Leadership 4
Chief Executive Officer
A design-build chief executive officer decides which homes the firm designs and builds, how it charges for design, and where the next clients come from.
Chief Operating Officer
A design-build chief operating officer builds the process that moves each home project from the first design meeting through permits, construction and warranty.
Chief Financial Officer
A design-build chief financial officer manages the money from a client's first design retainer to the final payment on the build.
General Manager
A design-build general manager runs one market for the firm and owns that market's profit.
Managers 9
Design Manager / Architect
A design-build design manager runs the design side of a firm that both designs and builds additions, whole-home remodels and custom homes.
Field Supervisor / Foreman
A design-build field supervisor oversees every active site for a firm that plans and builds home additions, large renovations and new houses.
HR Manager
A design-build HR manager hires for a firm where designers, project managers and carpenters all work in the same family's home.
Marketing Manager
A design-build marketing manager finds homeowners planning an addition, a whole-house remodel or a new custom home, often many months before they sign anything.
Office Manager
A design-build office manager runs the paperwork behind each home project, from the design agreement and build contract to change orders and permits.
Operations Manager
A design-build operations manager directs the daily work on every open job.
Project Manager
A design-build project manager runs each addition, remodel or custom home from the signed build contract to handover.
Sales Manager
A design-build sales manager heads the team selling additions, large remodels and custom homes, first as a paid design phase and then as a build contract.
Warehouse Manager
A design-build warehouse manager runs the building where a firm keeps each family's cabinets, windows and fixtures until their house is ready, along with the ladders, tools and dust-control gear crews move from job to job.
Office and sales 5
Customer Service Representative
A design-build customer service representative answers homeowners who are thinking about an addition, a big remodel or a custom home.
Dispatcher
A design-build dispatcher plans each day's crews and deliveries across the firm's open home projects, working from the operations manager's weekly plan.
Bookkeeper
A design-build bookkeeper records the money on every job, from the first design invoice to the last build payment.
Inventory Specialist
A design-build inventory specialist tracks the materials a firm buys for its additions, remodels and custom homes.
Sales Representative
A design-build sales representative meets families who want to add on, rework most of their house or build new, and sells them the paid design phase first.
In the field 2
Laborer / Helper
A design-build laborer helps the firm's carpenters and subs on additions, remodels and new homes.
Skilled Tradesperson
A design-build tradesperson does the framing, carpentry and layout on home additions, renovations and new houses that their own firm designed.
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