I do like my job, my days fly by and the people are by in large pretty good to work with.

Curtis @ 3/7/2018 8:43

Ben @ 3/7/2018 9:22 I do like my job, my days fly by and the people are by in large pretty good to work with. Ahoda @ 3/7/2018 9:36 I like my job. I'm either bored off my ass or so swamped I don't have time to take a piss. Read the OP, I wanna know EVERYTHING

I'm a Project Manager / Estimator for a Construction Company.

A little about the company
We generally specialize in large concrete projects, ranging anywhere from $200,000 to $10 million. We also, provide General Contracting services as well on any project that has a good sized concrete package, sometime they can grow to as large as $20+ million.

I work in an office with an office with 20 people (16 men and 4 women), our crews ranges anywhere from 40-350 depending on the work load and time of year. We employ carpenters, laborors, finishers and operators.

My Job
As a project manager, I'm generally managing around 8-10 jobs, dealing with issues like schedule, work scope, change requests, materials, labor and dealing with owners, CM's or GC's. Trying to keep our guys in the field as effiecient as possible so they can be as productive as possible.

Estimating is exactly what you think it is, which I enjoy more than managing to be honest, but I do enjoy bidding a job and then managing it through completion to see how well my bid and projections turned out.

Work hours are really pretty flexible, if I need to work from home I can, if I need to leave early I can, as long as my shit is running smoothly I don't get any grief over the hours I work.

The People
The people I work with are by and in large just like me. They have grown up around construction, enjoy the outdoors, like working with their hands on a wide variety of projects, have families and enjoy a good "Safety Meeting" ;)
once in a while. We hang out once in a while on a personal level going fishing or golfing, but enjoy all of us going out to lunch about 2 times month. I know I could all anyone in my office and they'd have my back if I needed help.

That better Curtis?

Also, see Primate, description above.

Just substitute Concrete for Steel and the roles are very similar, but he definitely estimates more then I do.

Primate @ 3/7/2018 9:26

Good concrete guys cut out a huge part of my job, because good concrete makes a smooth job for everyone else.

We work hard to make sure the anchor bolts are dead nuts. We just did a job for a 1 million SFT facility and there were 1200 sets of anchor bolts, all with 4-8 anchor bolts each. We requested copies of the anchor bolt surveys and didn't get one call back to fix anything. Which was huge for us. We are too busy right now to have to go back and fix shit.

I talked to the Steel PM a month ago and asked him and he said there were like 6 anchor bolts that needed to be adjusted but they were so happy with all the rest they just took care of it rather than have us back to fix anything.