What are the responsibilities and job description for the Construction Estimator - Multifamily Focused position at Geis Companies?
Position Overview :
- The Estimator will be part of the pre-construction team.
- Preference is focus on Multifamily Projects While not required, experience with MF is preferred.
- Projects are prepared for bid by pre-construction architects and engineers and sales executives.
- Estimators review the documents for completeness, develop bid scopes, bid-forms specific to the project being bid.
- Estimators work with the team to organize a list of bidding sub-contractors. Once published for bid, estimators field RFI’s and clarify bidding instructions.
- While sub-contractors are bidding, Estimators may be required to formulate an internal estimate based on historical costs, past similar projects, key systems specified, and prepare a comparative analysis once bids are tabulated and leveled.
- With Design Build, it is critical that the Estimator have a strong construction building understanding and background, understand systems, methods, materials, and is able to evaluate the pre-construction plans and add details / clarifications or seek guidance and answers in a design assist model from key subs all with the goal being a competitively priced, non-contingency burdened, opposite of CYA budget.
- From time to time the Estimator may be required to provide pricing for needed work scopes identified late in sequence, or brought to their attention by bidders.
- The Estimator should be able to do on screen take offs, research apparent costs using resources in and out of the company to arrive at an “allowance” or Hold” or a firm price for the missing scopes.
- The Estimator will participate in senior management review of the budget and scope document prior to its presentation to a client, and the Estimator may be part of the presentation team, and be responsible for communicating the scope details and the budget assumptions / bids.
- The Estimator must be able to read construction documents, drawings, soil and testing reports, assimilate and translate construction documentation for implementation into standard processes and procedures to support field operations.
- The Estimator works as part of a collaborative team with the Project Manager, subcontractors and suppliers to help facilitate a seamless process from beginning to end.
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