Job Description
Job Description
Overview
The SR. Estimator accurately estimate the cost, time, materials, labor, and equipment required for a construction project. They perform cost analyses, determine the duration of a project, procure vendors and subcontractors, and ensure that resources are managed and deadlines are met for electrical projects.
Responsibilities
- Review and evaluate project plans and specifications, bid documents, and other relevant project documents to identify what is needed for a project and to create a bid proposal.
- Calculate the cost of electrical construction based on reviewing and evaluating available documents.
- Analyze project for value engineering options while considering specific job conditions that may affect labor and material to be purchased and installed.
- May oversee and manage estimators.
- Identify any inconsistent issues, conflicts, and other problems in the bid documents.
- Prepares or oversees the development or completion of detailed scope documents, RFPs, RFIs, quotes, and estimates.
- Identify strategies to create bid advantages.
- Anticipate potential problems and devise solutions proactively.
- Prepare “RFI” questions.
- Request material and equipment quotes from vendors and equipment suppliers.
- Reviews quotes to confirm adherence to quote requests and accuracy of quotes received.
- Develops and maintains a positive relationship with vendors and clients.
- Prepares bid documents including specific scope letter for each project, “Blue Sheets” and “Evaluations” with adjustments for buy-outs, labor rate, productivity, etc.
- Assist in preparing budget pricing.
- Attend estimating/sales meetings, and project meetings to discuss bid status, and present/resolve issues.
- May perform job walks to ensure that any field conditions have been observed that may affect the construction, may impact the prospective bid, and/or may impact the pre-construction designs and the build services.
- Manages preconstruction activities during the design phase on design-build & design-assist projects.
- Assist on turnover meetings to operations team upon award of a project.
- Assist in project pursuits and interviews as needed.
- Keeps Company management, project management, clients, general contractors, and all others involved in projects current on bid progress.
- Maintain relationships with clients and follow up regularly on bid proposals submitted and project leads.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of electrical estimating experience for commercial and industrial projects.
- Accustomed to estimating for projects valued at $5 million and above.
- Advanced skills MS Office.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Experience utilizing Accubid and Accubid LiveCount is preferred.
- Prior experience estimating multi-million electrical projects in the industrial/commercial industry.
- Design/build experience required.
- Must be accurate, possess attention to detail and be proactive in pointing out potential issues.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.