Position Description - Project Estimator
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Benefits
Responsibilities
- Represent Puetz Design+Build in a Professional Manner
- Establish and Maintain Client and Subcontractor Relations
- Identify and Evaluate Client Needs
- Good Listener
- Identify and Evaluate Project Delivery Systems
- Prepare and Maintain Project Cost Estimates and Project Budgets - sometimes with little information
- Solicit Bids and Proposals from Subcontractors and Suppliers
- Maintain ethics policies
- Administer and Monitor Bidding Process
- Evaluate Bids and Proposals
- Identification and Evaluation of Design Costs Value Engineering
- Client Design / Cost Estimate Presentation Preparation and Delivery Identification and Evaluation of Cost Sensitive Design Option
- Review Project Drawings and Specifications and Offer Cost Driven Input Prepare, Distribute and Provide Information to Operations and Purchasing Dept.
- Identification and Evaluation of Means and Methods of Construction Related to Cost
- Maintain Subcontractor and Supplier Database
- Maintain and Update Estimating Software as Needed
- Prepare Conceptual Estimates in Conjunction with In-House Design Department
- Prepare Cost Proposals
- Prepare Estimates in Accordance with Project Delivery Method
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 Years of Experience in Commercial Construction Estimating
- Candidate Must Be Proficient in Labor Based Estimating Practices
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Bluebeam, ProCore, Spectrum or Similar Cost Accounting Software
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Ability to Work with a Team of Estimators and Project Management Staff
Benefits
- Salary D.O.E
- Paid Vacation
- Health Insurance
- 401K
- Benefit Information Available Upon Request
