Chief Estimator

Responsibilities

• Management of estimating team in prioritizing work product/assignments for entire project team.
• Lead delivery and presentation of project deliverables for internal and external review meetings.
• Lead value engineering efforts with project stakeholders.
• Collaborates with Team Leaders for responses to RFPs and presentations.
• Conceptual estimating from early feasibility and schematic level documentation.
• Working relationships with clients, design and trade professionals.
• Management of multiple large estimates simultaneously.
• Manage and assign tasks to preconstruction team members.
• Creation and presentation of Conceptual cost models for CM pursuits.
• Active participation in client / design team estimate reviews. Ability to communicate the details of the project through the estimate deliverable.
• Generation and management of overall project estimates for major deliverables from first estimate to final report.
• Monitor and report changes in document revisions from a scope and quantity perspective.
• Understands and fully embraces roles in Scorpio Processes (Know the Job, 6S Process)
• Communication and collaboration with 6S teams
• Center point for communication with design teams (preconstruction RFI’s)
• Include Constructability and Document Review items in estimate
• Management of Bidding Documents to Submarkets
• Complete assemblies of full bid packages after review:
• Scopes
• Bid Forms
• Site Logistics
• Schedule
• Drafting of Invitations and Notices to Bidders
• Accurate detailed quantity takeoffs for use in supporting project estimates.
• Maintain and update Estimating Database of historical unit costs.
• Generation of presentation-worthy estimate reports.
• Assist operations in cost analysis when requested.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in the construction industry, with at least 5 years focused on Estimating.
• 4-year degree in a related field.
• Proficient in Estimating tools utilized by Scorpio (Sage Estimating, Procore, E-Takeoff, Bluebeam, Revit/Navisworks)
• Ability to manage estimates in both Hard Bid and Negotiated situations.
• Experience in CM conceptual through 100% CD estimating, and competitive bid work.
• Solid understanding of general unit costs.
• Entrepreneurial spirit of owning and having accountability for project assignments
• Experience in Commercial Construction, specifically Higher Education, Healthcare, K-12, and Government projects. Multi-family project experience is a plus.