Job Description

Job Description

This position represents a remarkable opportunity for the ideal candidate seeking long-term career advancement, engaging challenges, and a role within the senior leadership team.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Estimators are tasked with the creation and presentation of comprehensive construction estimates for various projects in public works and heavy civil construction. This position will offer expertise and guidance for all estimating activities, ensuring that projects are in line with the company's objectives and performance goals. Specific responsibilities of the role include:

• Supervising the estimating process, which involves soliciting bids from vendors and subcontractors; monitoring, following up, and reporting on multiple estimates.
• Assisting in the preparation of technical narratives for RFP and RFQ submissions.
• Developing, modifying, and communicating enhancements to the estimating process.
• Demonstrating a profound understanding of the means and methods that may be utilized to accomplish a work feature that may or may not be illustrated in the project plans.
• Being capable of reasoning and articulating the planned approach to aspects such as shoring, access, staging, traffic control plans, and the overall methodology for the work.
• Identifying the types of formwork that may be used or how cuts and fills may be staged throughout the construction phases.
• Recognizing, assessing, and succeeding in relation to owner quantity discrepancies, such as flagger hours or similar items that cannot simply be disproven by plan quantity takeoff but instead require a deep understanding of how the work is likely to be executed, along with spreadsheets or written notes to quantify the expected costs.
• Understanding and utilizing the activity, material, and bid item codebooks within heavy bid software.
• Ensuring the prompt completion of estimates within stringent deadlines and allocated budgets, including timely reviews with senior management.
• Engaging in professional organizations to maintain current knowledge of trends and practices within the construction sector.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in heavy civil construction, at least 3 years of estimating experience
• Knowledge of construction practices for earthwork and concrete construction projects
• Expertise with unit price contracting
• Preferably has experience with HCSS Heavy Bid, Blue Beam, Insite takeoff
• Availability to travel regionally as needed for business purposes
• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, Civil Engineering preferred

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