Offres d'emploi

This role balances our employee interests with the interests of our customer and company, assists with sales and ensures that all of the above is done in the context of total customer satisfaction.

Contribute special individual skills and trade knowledge to the sales and business development efforts to convert prospects and fulfill project requirements.

• Collects and analyzes data in order to estimate the time, money, materials, and labor required to construct a building or provide a requested service.
• Evaluates Client's needs and provides potential solutions meeting budgetary, code compliance, and constructability requirements.
• This position works in close coordination with business development, operations, finance, safety, and human resources.
• Performs programming assistance, conceptual estimating and/or budgeting for design-build opportunities.
• Performs quantity take-offs and compiles subcontractor quotations prior to assembling required deliverables for CM and GC hard bid/public bidding opportunities.
• Travels to jobsites to gather and document information on existing conditions, materials needed, equipment utilization, and labor required.
• Meets with Clients as necessary to help determine the Client's needs and develop the scope of work.

• Prepares bid packages and/or project specific scopes to provide to vendors and subcontractors for bid solicitations.
• Solicits subcontractor bids for assigned projects. Review and analyze subcontractor bids for conformance with the bid requirements and resolve any conflicts with the subcontractor prior to submission of the final estimate.
• Transmits addenda and other pertinent information to applicable vendors and subcontractors.
• Reviews and analyzes specifications, plans, bid manuals, and technical documentation to prepare time, cost, materials, and labor estimates.
• Works with operations teams to create and/or review preliminary construction schedules for use in bidding opportunities and solicitations for subcontractor quotations.
• Compares proposals and/or quotations for use in selecting vendors or subcontractors.
• Confers with engineers, architects, owners, contractors and subcontractors on cost estimates.
• Creates subcontractor solicitation lists to ensure appropriate coverage on all scopes of work.
• Attends pre-bid meetings and site visits.
• Authors project specific proposals outlining specific scopes of work with detailed inclusions and exclusions as required to clearly communicate with the Client.
• Helps maintain a directory of suppliers, contractors and subcontractors.
• Recommends ways to make a bid opportunity and/or awarded project more cost effective or profitable.
• Develops a working knowledge of unit costs, systems square foot costs and total package building square foot costs.
• Organizes and manages a centralized cost database and a formal process to support cost estimating to ensure historical data utilization.
• Maintains and/or assists with maintaining the Opportunities in CMiC with the most current status and information for bid opportunities.
• Conducts project turn-over meetings for awarded projects with the Project Team and Director of Construction to communicate all facets of the project leading up to the project award, discuss potential challenges or specific areas of concern, and develop a plan for any required buy-out.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.
• Works occasional evenings, weekends, or overtime as needed for special projects.
• Travel is required at times for this position.

• Minimum Experience: At least 7-10 years as cost estimator.
• Education: Bachelor's degree, preferably in construction management, construction science, or engineering; or equivalent related experience and training.

Field-of-Expertise: Knowledge of accepted construction management principles.

Skills: Experienced in preconstruction, estimating, construction project management, set priorities and meet deadlines, excellent organizational abilities, presentation skills, strategic planning/thinking, business acumen, good oral and written communication, solid fiscal management skills, software and technology skills, good leadership skills, effective problem solving skills, ability to work with limited supervision, and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, consumers, and other service providers.

Physical Demands : The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this position, simultaneous and repetitive use of the hands, wrists, and fingers is sometimes required. Movements such as stooping, twisting, bending, reaching, crouching, and handling are sometimes required. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb, balance and reach with hands and arms. Some lifting and moving of 10 pounds may also be required. Audio, visual, and verbal functions are vital aspects to performing this position

Environmental Demands : While performing the duties of this position, the employee is typically in an office environment of conditioned heat and cooling. However, the employee is occasionally exposed to a variety of extreme conditions at construction sites. The noise level on job sites may be high.