Manage factory order placement for new equipment projects for the local office.• Meet with owners, architects, and general contractors during submittal and approval process in order to determine equipment requirements.• Write and answer requests for information from general contractors and architects and create change orders as necessary. • Specify elevator orders to manufacturing and ensure requested ship dates are secured.• Review, correct, and approve preliminary submittal drawings for manufacturing to produce final installation prints.• Review, correct, and modify final installation prints to submit for permits.• Team up with sales representatives, construction superintendents, field operations, and regional sales management to ensure new equipment installations meet our customers’ expectations.• Estimate and bid change orders to contracted scope of work.

Manage factory order placement for new equipment projects for the local Otis Elevator office.• Produce submittal drawings and finish approval packages for model elevators.• Meet with owners, architects, and general contractors during submittal and approval process in order to determine equipment requirements.• Write and answer requests for information from general contractors and architects and create change orders as necessary. • Specify elevator orders to manufacturing and ensure requested ship dates are secured.• Review, correct, and approve preliminary submittal drawings for manufacturing to produce final installation prints.• Review, correct, and modify final installation prints to submit for permits.• Team up with sales representatives, construction superintendents, field operations, and regional sales management to ensure new equipment installations meet our customers’ expectations.• Progress bill material and labor during installation of projects.• Estimate and bid change orders to contracted scope of work.

•Managed the submittal, approval, and purchase of elevator equipment for new equipment installation and modernization projects for the local office of ThyssenKrupp Elevator. •Designed and implemented a Microsoft Access database used by the regional office to track elevator installations from the submittal stage through elevator turnover.•Teamed up with branch sales and operations to turn around factory material variances from an $18,000 loss in fiscal year 2004 to a $160,000 gain in fiscal year 2005.•Read and interpreted architectural and structural drawings to ensure estimated material complied with job specifications and national and local codes. •Corrected factory material order forms for booking packages sent to a national coordination group. •Reviewed, corrected, and approved submittal drawings generated by national coordination group.•Interacted extensively with field sales and operations, factory sales, scheduling, and design, outside vendors, and general contractors, architects, and owners to ensure correct elevator was ordered.

•Coordinated the purchase and delivery of all materials required for new equipment installations and modernization jobs sold within the company’s area of operations. •Organized the job file.•Prepared approval drawings.•Reorganized and streamlined the approval procedure from the preliminary submittals, through any drawing revisions, to the permitting process.•Created spreadsheets of all outside purchases required for complete elevator installations and modernizations.•Conducted field surveys of existing equipment for modernization opportunities.

•Produced bills of material and wiring diagrams for electronic controllers, power units, and wiring packages for hydraulic elevators. •Read and interpreted order forms and specifications to determine product requirements.•Designed special circuits and special power units for non-standard orders.•Interfaced with sales, parts and warranty, purchasing, and field offices on parts orders, special projects, and field engineering.•Implemented process for providing CAD drawings to the plant for building custom components for controllers and power units.