What are the responsibilities and job description for the Estimator position at Pence Construction?
Estimator
Department : Field
Employment Type : Full Time
Location : Bend, OR
Reporting To : Preconstruction and Estimating Director
Description
The Estimator evaluates bid documents, drawings, plans, and specifications, ensuring that we have the information required for a successful bid and project win. The Estimator will work effectively with the Design Team, General Contractor, Subcontractors and Project Team to ensure bidding timelines are met. Through successful and reliable bids, the Estimator helps build Owner, Contractor, and Subcontractor relationships that are positive, long term relationships.
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Key Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, the employee must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily and in a timely manner. The following duties are representative of the job but are not all inclusive and other duties may be assigned as needed.
- Understand and evaluate all bid documents and proposal requirements.
- Have a complete understanding of drawings, plans, specifications, scopes of work, and other necessary construction documents to ensure a complete and thorough estimate.
- Attend project site pre-bid meetings, site tours, and post-bid interviews as required.
- Compile an organized, accurate, concise takeoff and estimate.
- Perform a constructability review in partnership with project teams.
- Perform specification review and identify cost for materials and processes specified.
- Perform project schedule review, identifying key risks within the schedule i.e. long lead procurement items, etc.
- Prepares trade specific scopes and subcontractor bid packages and analyze bids.
- Ensure all documents required for full bid proposal are obtained, including project insurances and builder's risk and bonds.
- Development of accurate and concise bid clarifications and assumptions related to the scope of work.
- Develop and prepare conceptual estimates with minimal subcontractor assistance using limited preliminary design documents / information.
- Qualify and level subcontractors' proposals according to project specifics
- Show creativity and resourcefulness to gain better pricing from subcontractors.
- Organize the work, plan, prioritize and manage multiple tasks and projects.
- Assist with pre-construction services including preliminary budgets, cost analysis, value engineering ideas and cost reduction techniques.
- Submission of bids and budgets by the bid deadline.
- Solicit and maintain communication with subcontractors and vendors.
- Consistently follows up on submitted bids and budgets with Architect and / or Project Managers
- Work independently on projects and with other team members.
- Communicate effectively in writing and verbally with team and others involved in the estimating process.
- Partner with project teams to ensure project start up requirements are met.
- Turns over bid documents and subcontractor buyouts to the project team.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
The following qualifications are representative of the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to perform the job but are not all inclusive.
Pence Values
Critical to the success of the Manager of Experience at Pence / Kelly, is an understanding of our values. You have many duties and qualifications, but highest among them is acting in a way that reflects Pence authentically to our clients, partners, peers, and subcontractors. Our values are :
