Construction Estimator

Job Description

Job Description

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Professionally represent our client and effectively support Company strategic initiatives
• Establish and foster positive long-term relationships with internal customers and business partners
• Execute company policies and procedures
• Embraces a lean culture and work environment
• Cultivate new and existing business relationships by engaging in client pursuits, RFP's, and interviews; positively promote Company to external business partners and contacts
• Establish and foster positive long-term relationships with all business partners including owners, architects, engineers and subcontractors
• Cultivate and manage relationships with new and existing clients; Provide client with accurate estimates and value engineering
• Assume single responsibility for large, complex projects; assume overall responsibility for the preconstruction stage of each project
• Identify tasks to be accomplished in order to satisfy contractual requirements
• Ensures estimates, schedules, constructability reviews, value engineering efforts, cost report planning and purchase planning efforts and documents meet detail, schedule and quality requirements.
• Provide overall Preconstruction effort oversight and show ability to lead a project team and project solutions
• Manage estimating process through initial advertising / prequalification and solicitation of subcontractors, bid evaluation process and award
• Effectively schedule complete Preconstruction effort including all estimate milestones, durations and identifying long lead items and other needs
• Interfaces with Owner, Architect / Engineers and subcontractors to resolve technical matters during design or prebid, and provides engineering and cost data regarding project feasibility.
• Organize departmental team so that each estimator involved knows responsibilities and deadlines
• Mentor / teach junior estimators all aspects of preconstruction process
• Prepare estimates for all stages of design from Conceptual through Final Construction Documents (Design / Build, Guaranteed Maximum Price, and Hard Bid diversity)
• Perform value engineering and life-cycle costing
• Develop and write all bid packages and subcontractor scopes of work
• Participate with the Project Manager in award of subcontracts and write all subcontracts before turning over to construction team
• Demonstrate exceptional presentation and sales skills while serving on RFP / Interview teams
• Other duties as assigned
• Uses safety equipment as prescribed by company to ensure safety on jobsite
• As a safety sensitive position, complete adherence to alcohol and drug use policies set by company
• In-person, predictable attendance at assigned location

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