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Senior Estimator, Construction

3 months ago


Chicago, United States The ELTA Group LLC Full time

Do you have construction estimating experience and want to work remotely?


The ideal candidate will be comfortable Working from Home with periodic travel to the corporate office in Northwest Indiana for closeouts and corporate party events. Ideal person should live within 2 hours of office or have ability to travel to office. This person will have estimating experience from a General Contractor environment from the earliest stages of design, throughout construction and beyond project completion. Competitive bidding estimating experience is preferred.


Responsibilities

  • Provide pricing details and conceptual bid estimates for competitive public and private bids for construction projects ranging from $100K-$25M.
  • Develop line item pricing and estimating proposals that include all systems, components, materials, equipment and personnel required to deliver preconstruction and construction services.
  • Review bid, RFP, and RFQ documents to create and maintain complete and accurate project costs. Attend pre-bid, bid review and other meetings remotely. Collaborate with key stakeholders to consider all general conditions, general requirements, risk factors, etc.
  • With knowledge of all divisions, perform quantity take off for general trades work. Create scopes of work based on bid documents and drawings. Coordinate and distribute invitations to bid and analyze bids received for complete compliance with bid documents and construction specifications.
  • Develops and documents logical assumptions during conceptual estimating activities and applies these assumptions to takeoff tasks.
  • Communicates with architects and consultants to clarify scope of work, materials, and schedule requirements, and documents these clarifications.
  • Ability to train others in current estimating best practices, technology tools and techniques like range estimating is a plus.
  • Conducts reviews of milestone documents for the development and pricing of value alternative opportunities.
  • Assists with final assembly of estimate for presentation to owner.
  • After the bid, collects and organizes all bid information for future reference.
  • Aids field operations with change order pricing if needed


Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture from an accredited college or university and/or equivalent working experience required.
  • Knowledge of construction best practices, procedures and trends.
  • Ability to read and interpret drawings and specifications.
  • Strong math and analytical skills.
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills, ability to plan, prioritize and manage multiple tasks - strong attention to detail.
  • Solid interpersonal and communication skills and ability to develop positive working relationships with diverse individuals in the field and office.
  • Strong work ethic and core values.
  • Maintains a “value added” approach to estimating

Please apply if you're looking to join a growing, supportive, collaborative team and enjoy the benefits of working from home