ChristiPowell

Aspen Square Homes is currently accepting resumes for a Purchasing Coordinator. The selected
candidate will provide support to construction managers in all purchasing and budgeting activities. The
selected candidate will coordinate these processes with sales, operations, accounting and vendors.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
 Manage and complete the Permit process for upcoming home starts
 Create all necessary budgets and purchase orders for all construction starts with budgets
customized for address specific jobs.
 Coordinate cost establishment process between the field and vendors to achieve the goals of having
budgets entered and checked for accuracy within
 Validate requests from the field for extra material by validating cost requested know cost for
accuracy and communicate any changes to vendors as needed.
 Process change orders in a timely manner ensuring production is not held up, creating the
appropriate budgets and issuing the EPOs with proper reason codes.
 Research and resolve all problem invoices with the goal of reducing problems by improving accuracy
of takeoffs and orders and/or training vendors in working within our system.
 Other duties as requested (i.e., vendor calls,).
Minimum Qualifications:
 Systems knowledge is preferred (e.g., Construction based software packages)
 High School Diploma required.
 An organized and detail-oriented person is a must
 A minimum of one-year construction or purchasing experience is preferred, preferably with a
Homebuilding Company, but is not required.
 Customer service and/or order entry experience preferred.
 Prior experience with MS Office Software required (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.).

@AGardner 

Podcasts are BOOMING. Do you want to be an EXCEPTIONAL guest? Do you want to know how to shine? Do you want to know how to be a DESIRABLE guest? Let's share! If you're interested in a virtual meet up on this topic, please comment and if there's enough interest I will set it up.

Sadly, 

Be aware and watchful!!

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2022/06/ftc-florida-act-keep-deceptive-grant-claims-bae?utm_source=govdelivery

St. Nicks Alliance has 2 different construction programs that train 16-24 year olds and 18+ year old olds to enter into the field of construction. We’ve graduated 2 cohorts in the last 2 months and in our last graduation we had 2 female guest speakers in construction trade present to the diverse class. https://www.stnicksalliance.org/workforce

Welcome to the community!  Looking forward to connecting with you👊

The Best Construction Podcasts in 2022 (billd.com)

The blog is amazing but the most amazing thing is that we didn't know anything about this and this organization is from Austin, TX.  The author is from Anchorage, Alaska.

Keep sharing your voice and keep pushing your dreams, you can make a difference!!!

Celebrating today!!

Good morning, SAVE THE DATE: Women's Executive Luncheon by Women Confidence Builders - 8/30/22 - 10am-1pm - Lunch and speaker start at Noon, early shopping from women owned businesses 10am-noon!

Angela and I wanted to send a quick note to say "hello" and Thank you.  We are so excited to say that you've been making a big impact in non-traditional roles by being the voices of those who are occupying the space.  We are so proud of you for sharing and supporting women in construction and for supporting the workforce of the future.

 

We have seen some big changes and thanks to all of you we hit 1000 DOWNLOADS on Wednesday.  The most exciting news is we were notified the podcast won an award for efforts to help the workforce, which will be announced soon .  We've been so fortunate to have EXCELLENT guests and to get some awesome sponsorships .  Several publishers are contacting us and sharing this important topic, however, there is still MORE WORK TO BE DONE and we have a long way to go.  

 

If you haven't already done so, please sign up in the forum and introduce yourself.  There are so many connections being made behind the scenes.  Six women found jobs in the first 7 days! One was working for someone who really treated her poorly and now she's with a company who respects, admires, and is training her to fill a role she has always wanted in the construction industry.  That's what this group is all about.  Yesterday in a message on the forum we introduced a woman owned business to one who was looking for her kind of services and now they are both excited to be working with women owned companies.   That's just a few of the things that have happened in three months and we have over 7500 people monitoring this forum and reaching out to those who introduce themselves and their businesses.  

 

We have just started adding calendar events to the calendar in hopes that we will see you at an event soon.  We have also started to post bidding opportunities for work with government agencies and with developers, general contractors, friends, woman owned businesses, etc.

 

Thank you again for building this community of awesome people, sharing opportunities in unity.  We are #bettertogether.  

 

If you have requested to be on our podcast, we have your information and we will try to contact everyone as soon as we have a spot.  At this time, we are only publishing 4 podcasts a month.  The first several months we have focused on the men and women who have supported and encouraged our efforts to make our industries a better place.  Once we share all of their amazing stories, we will be reaching out to you too!

 

If you are feeling encouraged, we would love to hear how the forum and podcast has supported you, we will likely share those stories on social media to encourage other women. If you have any ideas and comments to help make our podcast more valuable for you and for your friends and family who need support, please let us know.

 

Keep changing the world!  WE are so proud of YOU!!

#impactnotinfluence 

 

Christi Powell & Angela Gardner

Karin, we hope your business grows quickly!  Thank you for sharing 😊

Salt Lake Community College 

👷‍♀️Construction training and generous scholarship support!!

Thank you, Brad!

Next year it will be in Nashville TN. Last week was in Atlanta 👊

There are more private companies requiring purchases from Woman and Minority owned businesses than ever before. It's growing so fast! Hundreds of companies added in 2022.

✅️ Do you know about ESG?
✅️ Have you looked into an Affirmation Action Certification?
✅️ Are you networking with other companies in Supplier Diversity?

There are over 1500 exhibitors today. So many educational classes guiding  business with supplier diversity leaders. Here are some things we learned about doing business with large Supplier Diversity companies.  

✅️ Be persistent 
✅️ Be patient
✅️ Be prepared

Again we've enjoyed connecting in person!! 

Shenanigans ❤️

When: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Where: Topgolf Greenville

Join us the night before the Clemson Symposium for a CAGC and ABC Carolinas Joint Event!  Come out and networking with the best Construction Industry members in the region -- making this a must-attend event. We'll see you there!

https://www.cagc.org/CAGC/Events/Event_Display.aspx?hkey=3c9f8828-9d84-457b-bb59-7a437e0f4eef&EventKey=UPST091422

Good afternoon, Department Directors,

Please find attached the MWBE/HUB (Minority and Women Business Enterprise/Historically Underutilized Business) recruitment event announcement flyer for Minority and Women businesses and contractors on June 16, 2022 to be held at Tabernacle Baptist Church here in Gastonia.  Both printable and digital versions are included and are in English and Spanish.  Please forward to your contacts that do work in construction, renovation, repair, and other general services who you feel will be interested in do business with Gaston County.  Also, all Directors are invited to attend.  We are asking that everyone register for the event so that we will know how much refreshments and food to order.  Details on how to register are included on the announcement flyer.   Again, thank you for your assistance in spreading the word about the MWBE event and your consideration for attending.

Best,

Investors are requiring companies to have an ESG program in place.  Don't know what it is? Here's some information we've been looking at.  Also, we are getting certified to know where and how this will affect small, medium, and large businesses.

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💯We are all about finding ways to save on cost and also be up to date in technology!😄

I started using blind for 84 Lumber and for Women Talk Construction.  It is completely free to use for 2 business cards, it will set you up with an amazing e-mail signature too, all for free.  Try it out!

Having a (credit card like) physical card is available as well.  I'm excited to just scan that card when I'm at a networking event!  Click my contact card above to see what it looks like.  Thank you, Michelle at Gallagher for recommending this resource!!

Thank you, Lauren for sharing this job opening!  I will share too 🙂

https://ic.wbeceast.com/workshop.aspx?ekey=10420027

If you've always dreamed of owning your own business, our free Orientation and Business Assessment workshop is for you! Here's what you can expect: Organize and Clarify: Complete a self assessment to clarify your current business needs Programs and Resources: Learn about the WBEC-East and its resources Evaluate: Determine which WBEC-East resources best fit your current needs Networking: Gain support and identify prospective clients and resources Business owners specifically interested in learning more about our women owned certification are encouraged to attend one of our regular monthly webinars about certification. More info, including upcoming dates, can be found at wbeceast.com/events.

Speaker(s): Ashana DeSilva, WBEC-East Business Training Program Coordinator

Fee: No Cost

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Thank you for joining the forum, please feel free to add resources and information for our amazing members who've joined our community 😀 

I love your story, maybe we should talk about your journey on a podcast? 👊💚😄

Are you are reader?  I am not but I certainly love to feed myself with valuable and great information.  Audiobooks are my thing but THIS.....my friend @Tina Christiano showed me this resource and it is simply amazing.  This is an app that summarizes a book in 15-30 minutes.  The big nuggets of truth that I really listed to audio books to get!  THIS WAS A GAME CHANGER FOR ME!  Enjoy 🙂  Anyone here enjoy a lot of valuable information?  Are you already using Blinkist?  Thanks, Tina!!