Highlights
Proposal Coordinators are key members of our bidding teams, working as dedicated resources within each operating group (heavy civil, hydropower and renewables, underground, power delivery, and oil and gas) to support Barnard’s efforts to win work. Performs additional non-traditional marketing responsibilities, including maintaining the resume and project profile database, performing website updates, creating marketing materials to support business development activities, and developing other external communications to support overall company messaging.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Bozeman, Montana |
| Job Type | Full-time |
| Industry | Construction - Industrial Facilities and Infrastructure |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.barnard-inc.com/ |
Description
Overview:
Barnard Construction Company, Inc., based in Bozeman, Montana, is a heavy-civil construction company with projects underway across North America. Barnard is ranked by Engineering News-Record, a leading construction industry periodical, as one of the nation’s Top 400 civil contractors. We specialize in dam construction and rehabilitation, power transmission and distribution, tunneling, inland marine, oil, gas, utility, and sewer and water pipeline projects. We offer competitive salaries, profit sharing, 401(k)s, a generous health plan, annual bonuses, and challenging career opportunities with a financially solid company. Barnard’s people are the reason for the success of the company. Our reputation attracts the highest quality personnel, people who are committed to producing projects that set a standard for excellence. At Barnard, we build the riskiest, most difficult, complex jobs we can find and we hire people who thrive on tough work and demanding opportunities.
Proposal Coordinators are key members of our bidding teams, working as dedicated resources within each operating group (heavy civil, hydropower and renewables, underground, power delivery, and oil and gas) to support Barnard’s efforts to win work. Leading and directing the creation of best-in-class proposals and presentations, Proposal Specialists use their expertise to craft pursuit-specific win strategies while also ensuring the compliance of all proposal submittals.
Qualifications:- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business, Graphic Design, Journalism, or Communications
- 3+ years of proposal management experience preferred.
- Experience in the construction/engineering/architecture industry a plus.
- Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced, changing environment while managing multiple projects.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to recognize discrepancies.
- Experience in developing proposal templates, newsletters and other marketing collateral
- Assumes overall responsibility for individual proposal-related deliverables such as prequalifications, proposals, and presentations, including the assignment of specific tasks to other proposal team members and follow-up to ensure completion.
- Establishes pre-production document management and file-sharing for proposal teams.
- Coordinates content collection with teaming partners and subcontractors, as needed.
- With minimal supervision, responsible for independently reviewing Request for Proposal (RFP) requirements and coordinating a professional, thorough proposal.
- Assists in developing content for key sections, including written responses and identification and creation of appropriate graphics.
- Leads the proposal process by facilitating reviews at key milestones and proposal workshops to assist the team in developing key win strategies and proposal-specific content that meets the client’s requirements.
- Works closely with the proposal Technical Editor to ensure key messages are communicated clearly, messaging is consistent, and the proposal complies with the RFP requirements.
- Implements standard pursuit management methods, tools, techniques, and competencies.
- Participates in debriefs, identifying areas of improved performance for lessons learned as well as areas of excellence for best practices.
- Serves as the subject matter expert for proposal-related deliverables and provides mentoring to others as appropriate.
- Performs additional non-traditional marketing responsibilities, including maintaining the resume and project profile database, performing website updates, creating marketing materials to support business development activities, and developing other external communications to support overall company messaging.
Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled, E-Verify Employer
About Company
Barnard is different from other construction companies in many ways, some small and some substantial. Like all construction companies, we strive to deliver quality, on time, under-budget projects that include terrific environmental stewardship and community relations. We are different in the way we execute our work and achieve these goals.
For starters, we are organized around one Home Office and we rely on our people as our greatest asset and resource in all aspects of our business. We started small, first one man, then one team, and we found we liked the team approach to construction. Consequently, we don’t have satellite offices or regional headquarters that compete for business or spread our resources thin. We have the Home Office based in beautiful Bozeman, Montana, where the business began. This means that if someone on a project in British Columbia has a question, he or she calls the same number that someone in upstate New York calls for an answer. Field staff can be sure that they reach the people they need for support, assistance or some well-deserved kudos. If a question requires more than one person’s answer, we can walk down the hallway, hold an impromptu meeting and work out a solution or answer without the effort becoming a scheduling event. This efficient communication and access to management is key to Barnard’s people and to our culture. In fact, our entire Executive Management meets monthly with our Department Heads to connect and keep everyone involved in the big picture as well as the individual projects and bids that we have in the works.
We also stand out among our competitors in our practice of pairing a Field Supervisor with a Project Engineer to form a “team” that is strong in office and field skills. This eliminates the problem of not knowing who to ask for a material order or not understanding if the schedule is being met. It creates a culture of accountability. Our Superintendents and Project Managers are paired as well. This splits responsibilities while also having a peer with whom to consider options and problem-solve.
As a job winds down, key project staff members are cycled back to the Home Office to estimate upcoming work. When the work is awarded, that bid team mobilizes to the project and performs the work. The knowledge that is gained from being involved in a project from the estimate to project completion is invaluable.
We believe that the more we empower our people, the better off we’ll be. After all, we are People building for People.