Job Title: Building Senior Estimator
City: Raleigh
State: NC
Building Senior Estimator
Description/Job Summary
Responsibilities/Duties
- Bid projects with a Safe Work or No Work mindset.
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, and pre-construction team to evaluate project specifications, requirements, and timelines.
- Develop cost of work pricing, general condition, site logistics, and verification of schedules with the project team.
- Review proposal specifications, drawings, attend pre-bid meetings and attend site visits to determine scope of work.
- Prepare and review RFI’s for design team clarification.
- Prepare and coordinate bid proposal packages, including bid bonds, bid proposals, MWBE forms, and other additional forms required by the general conditions or bidder requirements.
- Maintain meticulous documentation of subcontractor outreach, scope verification, MWBE requirements, as required by the owner or the general conditions.
- Plan bid win strategy that is profitable and meets Owner MWBE requirements.
- Solicit pricing from subcontractors and suppliers. Follow up with subcontractors to gauge interest and ensure adequate trade participation prior to the bid.
- Conduct and log comprehensive quantity take-offs, subcontractor outreach, and material analysis to determine accurate cost estimates.
- Generate subcontractors’ scopes sheet to assist in bid leveling.
- Prepare and assemble detailed estimates through takeoffs and specifications reviews for accurate proposals.
- Schedule, organize, and lead the post-bid review for continuous process improvement.
- For successful bids, participate in hand-off meetings providing project and field management with complete bid documentation and recap the subcontractor negotiation that was instrumental in helping win the project.
- Develop and maintain a cost history database.
- Develop, maintain, or oversee a call/solicitation log as directed by the Pre-Con team.
- Anticipate and solve problems with a positive mindset and focus on solutions.
- Hold yourself to uncompromising Ethical standards, personally and professionally.
- Mentor, coach
,and train Pre-con engineers and estimators. - Consistently build strong positive relationships with vendors, field management, and project management.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or equivalent
- Five years’ experience in pre-construction or equivalent experience
- Strong working knowledge of Outlook, Excel, Word
- Strong communication and people skills
- Maintain a valid driver’s license and safe driving record
- Experience reading and understanding bid documents
drawings - Detail-oriented
- Experienced in planning, collaboration, and conflict-resolution skills
- Strong working knowledge of estimating software such as Sage Estimating or Beck Technology Destini
- Open to change and adaptable to new technologies.
We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. T. A. Loving Company is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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