Summary
The structural concrete estimator provides accurate bid proposals and scope analysis for potential projects, including pricing estimates on new projects. The structural estimator reviews, analyzes, and interprets contract documents (specifications, drawings, and reference information) to develop detailed and comprehensive project cost estimates and exercises sound judgment to arrive at the complete cost estimate with appropriate profit margins to achieve division goals.
Duties and Responsibilities
Preconstruction and Business Development:
- Ensures pertinent information is collected and timely follow-ups are executed to close internal and external loops.
- Establishes and maintains robust relationships with customers, vendors, subcontractors, and key stakeholders.
- Identifies competitive edge and risks to each project; communicates and evaluates with the preconstruction and division managers.
- Provides value engineering and design assist solutions, including cost/schedule impacts.
Estimating:
- Reviews contractual requirements, specifications, and drawings and develops a plan for the project construction to be utilized as the basis of the cost estimating process.
- Accurately conducts a thorough and detailed project take-off to quantify all items in the scope.
- Creates the complete estimate accounting for all aspects of the scope of work, including correct alternates, general conditions, inputting valid vendor and subcontractor pricing, materials and equipment costs, and proper labor production and wage rates aligned with the bid strategy.
- Solicits subcontractor and supplier pricing, reviewing prequalification requirements, and determining the best-qualified subcontractors.
- Identifies project-specific risk issues, the potential impact on Kent Companies, and potential strategies to help mitigate those risks.
- Prepare accurate and comprehensive proposals, including durations, assumptions, a complete list of exclusions, and all required documentation for submission.
- Follow up with each customer the next business day to gather feedback on pricing and scope, promote the Kent differentiators, and request a meeting with each customer to discuss how Kent can provide value to the project.
- Provide timely follow-up, closure, and tracking of all identified opportunities.
- Participate in post-bid interviews when requested to provide accurate details about the scope, sequence, assumptions, expectations, and exclusions.
Management:
- Maintains a preconstruction schedule, including a bid calendar, to ensure time management of deadlines.
- Assists with the "project hand-off" to the project management and field operations team to ensure a clear understanding of project scope, build assumptions, schedule, and manpower assumptions.
- Identifies potential improvements that innovate the estimating processes to ensure accurate estimates consistent with divisional costs.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties and Responsibilities are not comprehensive and can be changed at any time, with or without notice.
Work Environment/Physical Demand
This position works in a typical office environment and requires extended periods of sitting.
Position type, travel, and expected hours of work.
This is a full-time, office position. Typical hours will range from 45-50 hours per week and are subject to change. This role requires the ability to work nontypical days and irregular hours based on construction schedules. Due to the critical nature of the role, accepting phone calls even during nontypical workdays and hours is also necessary.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in construction management or engineering or 5+ years of concrete structural estimating experience.
- Proven experience managing concrete preconstruction processes.
- In-depth knowledge of construction principles/practices is required.
- Experience building relationships and working with subcontractors and vendors.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Excels in a team environment, with a strong ability to work independently.
- Excellent at meeting deadlines and striving for accuracy in all submittals.
- Valid driver’s license
- Must have reliable transportation to the workplace(s)/ job location(s).
- Ability to successfully pass a background check related to driving (for any driver)
- Ability to pass drug screening.
- Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and in the future.
Preferred education and experience
- 10+ years working as a Structural Estimator for a Commercial Concrete specialty sub-contractor.
- Practical leadership abilities, like motivation, goal setting, and conflict management
- Organizational skills, including time management, delegation, prioritization, and multitasking.
- Creative and results-oriented, with a keen sense of urgency and self-motivation.
Benefits
Kent Companies provides its employees with one of the most competitive compensation and benefits packages in the construction industry. Benefits vary by location, with a fully customized benefits package presented upon hire. Typical benefits packages include:
- Weekly pay
- PTO (Paid Time Off)
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Supplemental insurance options
- Retirement plans with discretionary employer-matching
- Holiday pay (New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day)
- Scholarship opportunities for dependents
- Leadership development opportunities