Commercial Construction Project Estimator

Overview

A positive work environment is essential for performance and wellbeing. Bald Hill Builders emphasizes a positive, professional, safe, and interactive environment with an open-door policy to senior management. We provide growth opportunities, training, tools, and resources for employees to advance their careers and perform at the highest levels.

Responsibilities

• Perform Plan Reviews.
• Review RFP – including plans, specifications, sketches, geotechnical reports, design narratives, Addenda, etc.
• Attend pre-bid meetings, perform site inspections, verify existing conditions, and analyze factors that may affect constructability (e.g., location of powerlines, access for deliveries).
• Conduct a page turn to determine scopes of work and required contents of the estimate.
• Prepare bidders lists tailored for each project, selecting subcontractors most appropriate for the project and most likely to bid.
• Prepare requests for subcontractor quotations and provide analysis of subcontractor quotes.
• Follow up with subcontractors during the bidding period to maintain communications, gauge interest, and field RFI's.
• Perform site visits with subcontractors.
• Prepare bid tabs, highlighting portions of the work that subcontractors may or may not have included.
• Prepare detailed and accurate Qualifications & Assumptions.
• Collaborate with Project Operations to develop a Construction Management Plan and a Project Schedule.
• Prepare and review with Project Operations a detailed General Conditions and Project Requirement study (considering a "how will we build this" approach).
• Write Scopes of Work and Prepare Subcontract Agreements.
• Take the lead with estimating, budgeting, and bidding of projects.
• Manage workload to ensure adequate time and resources are allocated for each project.
• Plan to meet the bid deadline and communicate needs, critical factors, and potential roadblocks that may impact submission.
• Prepare estimates by performing a complete take-off of the Scope of Work, including :
• Bulk Quantity Take-offs.
• Man-hour Estimates.
• Material & Unit Price Estimates.
• MEP Systems & Equipment Estimates.
• Prepare conceptual estimates from preliminary design documents.
• Engage subcontractors and suppliers to ensure pricing accuracy.
• Evaluate active and past projects to create a historical cost database.
• Support and maintain Estimating Department historical data files.
• Prepare budget comparisons between current and previous estimates.
• Maintain working documents as back-up for estimate figures, including current information on unit prices from suppliers.
• Provide support for Project Operations as directed.
• Assist with the final assembly of estimates and pricing to clients.

Qualifications

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