Description
Role :
The Estimator collaborates throughout the company to support the bidding process by our sales department by creating estimates and proposals for all our designs, projects, and services.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare written proposals
- Develop a detailed description of the project elements and services.
- Create estimates from 3D Design and or blueprints.
- Calculate exhibit element costs for materials, supplies, and man-hours / labor.
- Develop service costs per project, including shipping, installation, dismantling, and electrical.
- Create change order estimates.
- Vendors RFP's (request for proposals)
- Communicate with vendors to obtain costs for proposals.
- Proposal timeline and deadlines
- New materials and vendor research
- Continuously maintain and update the estimating and costs catalog through our internal database.
- Recommend the most cost-efficient materials and fabrication methods.
- Work directly with the sales team on estimates and proposal requirements.
- Create a bill of materials and vendor list for each estimate after the project is sold.
- Manage markups
- Maintain the internal estimating schedule for projects.
- Assist with material purchasing if required.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Experience estimating custom design & fabrication projects
- CAD user is a plus.
- Strong computer skills.
- Understands methods of fabrication and man-hours required to build
- Excellent vendor relationships
- Able to read blueprints and 3D Design
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Advanced skills in blueprint reading.
- Teamwork
- Attention to detail
- Must be able to pass a pre-employment background check
Benefits
- Paid Holidays
- Medical Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k
InterGlobal Exhibits (IGE) is a trade show exhibit house specializing in the design and fabrication of trade show exhibits, corporate events and retail installations.
We are a private, family-owned business with almost 25 years of experience in the industry. Supporting client projects domestically or overseas, we have a state-of-the-art design studio, full fabrication facilities, and storage, as well as offer logistics and show services.
From designing an exhibit that captures the essence of your brand, to installation and dismantle, to storage and managing your program, when you partner with IGE, you only have to do one contract.
Our corporate culture is informal and comprised of excellent talent in design, management, engineering, accounting, and manufacturing.
We are a creative, detail-oriented team, eager to impress from start to finish. We appreciate the growth that comes from a challenge and enjoy helping execute the visions of our partners.
Good business is about building relationships and some of the most demanding marketing managers in the world trust us to develop rich, memorable brand experiences.
The goal is simple : to help companies stand out by focusing on the details that make them distinctive.