Senior Estimator

5 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States The Boldt Company Full time
Job Summary

The Senior Estimator will play a key role in providing estimating services and expertise for various market sectors and contract delivery methods. This position will be responsible for creating estimates that foster success through a OneBoldt approach while returning the planned profit to the company.

Key Responsibilities
  • Prepare, plan, organize, and evaluate estimates for a multitude of projects, large and small, across various market sectors, both in negotiated and hard bid.
  • Review drawings, specifications, and owner documents to establish scope of work contents for estimates and other deliverables. Attend pre-bid and project meetings. Prepare RFI's and collaborate with architecture and engineering firms to confirm document interpretation.
  • Prepare detailed and conceptual estimates, which may include working with self-perform to scope project, create bid lists of subcontractors, trade partners, and suppliers, and ensure appropriate coverage with those groups.
  • Perform takeoffs required for assigned estimates, including self-performed trades such as concrete, masonry, steel, carpentry, drywall, and millwright work. Utilize OnCenter and coordinate requirements for BIM-generated quantification. The use of BIM-generated takeoff using Vico is preferred.
  • Prepare and review documents for specific deliverables.
  • Participate in the presentation of project estimates to project owners and other partners. Lead internal and external meetings.
  • Complete the bidding process, including bid solicitation, bidders' communications, proposal evaluations, and bid evaluation. Review and final acceptance of all bids.
  • Establish acceptable design options and best solutions based on cost, engineering quality, or availability of materials.
  • Develop and maintain client, design partner, subcontractor, supplier, external customer relationships.
  • Provide technical support and guidance to estimating staff in preparing estimates for all projects. Lead specific project assignments and provide guidance to other estimators assigned to other projects in the preparation of all estimating and target value design functions for projects, including establishing reporting formats, assignment of areas of estimating responsibility, compiling estimates, preparation, and oversight of project estimates.
  • Provide guidance and oversight for completeness of all estimate material and construction equipment required to perform work. Establish and confirm union labor costs for the project.
  • Manage bid solicitation processes, including management of bid documents and instructions to bidders. Guide the process to successfully procure and analyze bids. Support buyout and smooth transition of turnover to project managers and ensure subcontractors are prequalified prior to bidding and contracting with Boldt.
  • Assist project managers and financial managers in the continuous assessment of project risks and opportunities and how it relates to the overall project cost. Consolidate all risk and opportunities and integrate to the overall project cost. This includes assisting project and financial managers in reviewing monthly trade partner cost reports and labor reports and identifying variances from the original estimate.
  • Prepare strategic project qualification (SPQ) to analyze projects from a risk mitigation standpoint.
  • Confirm insurance requirements with legal and underwriting.
  • Prepare conceptual estimates and cost models using Building Catalyst and Modelogix. Incorporate the appropriate target value and other dashboard metrics required to monitor the evolution of the conceptual estimate/cost model.
  • Ability to mentor and give direction to less experienced estimators to assist in their development.
  • Upload estimates to the system. Organize all estimating documents, deliverables, and contract exhibits and attachments required for construction.
  • Maintain consistent working knowledge and experience of all labor rates, self-perform productivities, and crew mixes. Utilize the labor rate app. Monitor and adjust productivities and crew mixes based upon actual field feedback.

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