Civil Construction Estimator - Public Works

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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

• 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

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