Project Estimator - Denver

Job Description

Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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 trade partners
• Cultivate and manage relationships with new and existing clients; Provide client with accurate estimates and value engineering
• Assume single responsibility for larger, complex projects; assume overall responsibility for the preconstruction stage of each project
• Responsible for creating detailed project budgets at conceptual, SD, DD and CD stages
• Identify tasks to be accomplished 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 lead a project team and project solutions
• Manage estimating process through initial advertising / prequalification and solicitation of trade partners, bid evaluation process and award
• Coordinating with multiple departments to complete Preconstruction effort at all drawing milestones and ensuring other departments have required information to perform their duties
• Interfaces with Owner, Architect / Engineers and trade partners 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
• 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 trade partners scopes of work
• Coordinates with Project Manager in award of subcontracts and writes all subcontracts
• Other duties as assigned

EDUCATION

Associates degree in Estimating

Bachelors degree in Construction Management, Engineering or related field preferred

EXPERIENCE

6+ years of estimating for general commercial construction

SKILLS

EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS

SALARY AND BENEFITS

The salary range for this position is $97,000 – 118,000 annually and is dependent in experience and title / rank of position offered.

Health and welfare benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, ADD, STD, LTD, and EAP substantially supported by the employer.

For more details about our benefits package, please visit : https : / / www.ghphipps.com / careers / .