Career Opportunity :: Estimator
Primary Function
Provide cost estimates for bidding of construction projects.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Organization and review of plans and specifications.
- Preparation of cost estimates for both hard-money and proposal bidding. This includes cost estimate preparation utilizing Estimating Software (currently HCSS), and to-do-so, analyzing and establishing means, methods, production rates, and schedules.
- Preparation of written proposals.
- Presentation of cost estimates/proposals before in-house management, joint venture partners, and owners/engineers.
- Management and training of Junior Estimators.
- Coordination with other Estimators and Consultants.
- Quantity Take-offs from plans utilizing various means, such as scaling, planimeter, digitizer, and On-Screen Take-off program.
- Preparation of sketches, illustrations, and composites for use in estimate preparation and review.
- Preparation of Sub/Supplier quotation request packages, communication with Subs/Suppliers, and collection and review of quotations.
- Estimate close-out including Sub/Supplier Quote Comparisons.
- Support of HCSS; rate entry, Bid Item entry, etc.
Qualifications and Experience
- 4 year civil Engineering or Construction Management Degree and construction experience, or equivalent combinations of technical training and construction experience.
- Knowledge of plan reading and interpretation, take-off, MS-Excel software, construction means, methods, and productions, scheduling, and common sense are a must.
- Knowledge of MS-Word, Scheduling, MS-PowerPoint, On-Screen Take-off, digitizer, and/or HCSS software are pluses.
For more information about this position, please contact us at careers@stacywitbeck.com
1320 Harbor Bay Parkway
