Construction Estimator

Construction Estimator (Gas Transmission/Water)

Contract (1 year )

Huntington, WV

The daily responsibilities include, but are not limited to physically reviewing of each project, perform material take-offs, develop schedules, prepare man-hour loading summaries, develop crew sizes, determine overall project durations, determine man-hours, determine equipment requirements, obtain material pricing and create any other informational requirements requested by our customers.

A thorough understanding of the Gas Transmission business, including distribution and transmission is paramount. Also, a thorough understanding of the sewer, petroleum is beneficial in this position.

Job Description

• Possess and maintain an insatiable appetite for details
• Thoroughly review all job specifications, standards and drawings required to have a comprehensive understanding of the scope for each project
• Perform complete material take-offs for all materials required for the project
• Obtain competitive material and subcontractor pricing for the project
• Attend pre-bid meetings and perform detailed project site reviews in order to thoroughly understand the magnitude of the scope for the project
• Perform thorough material take-offs and seek material supplied pricing for all items
• perform thorough labor and equipment resource requirements for each project
• Prepare detailed resource loading charts
• Preform detailed schedules utilizing Microsoft Project
• Prepare detailed project scopes for potential sub-contractors and negotiated pricing
• Prepare presentations for Bid Review Committees
• Be prepared to work at a high pace and keep multiple projects progressing at the same time
• Be prepared to ensure high stress environments of meeting customer driven deadlines
• Be capable of creating project qualifiers and stipulations to clearly express your bid intentions
• Be capable of creating project qualifiers and stipulations to clearly express without compromise
• Be prepared to create very well written bid proposals including an extraordinaire amount of details
• Again, possess and maintain an insatiable appetite for details
• Be prepared to assist in any other duties that are deemed necessary by management to preform
  
  
  

Requirements

• Preferred 10 years of experience in estimating projects identified within various industries
• Must have gas transmission experience
• Thorough practical experience in the actual construction of pipelines
• Preferred Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering, Project Management and/or other related field
  
  
  

The position is a career opportunity with a well-established growing company and requires relocation to Huntington, WV. The position is Contract-to-Hire and relocation support will be provided.