WHAT YOU'LL DO:- Create bid invites and send out to chosen subcontractor lists.
- Follow-up with subs and vendors, including by phone.
- Foster relationships with subs through trade group meetings and other social interactions
- Attend Jobsite Walk-Thrus to review existing conditions and lead walk thrus for Bond projects.
- Review plans, specifications RFI's, schedules, and other documents to understand a project's requirements.
- Review Plans, specifications, schedules and other documents to offer constructability comments during preconstruction, for some trades (e.g. finishes)
- Document management
- Perform quantity takeoffs (QTO) using OST (onscreen takeoff)
- Populate estimate in Excel or Sage
- Create scope sheets for vendors and subs - Including detailed general requirements not otherwise documented for all trades. Including creating supplemental documents, e.g. via blue-beam, to facilitate more accurate pricing.
- Review scopes in meetings with subcontractors, design teams, and clients - including negotiating scope modifications to suit the project needs for most trades.
- Evaluate pricing and scope to produce a complete scope and purchase - including negotiating final scope and buy values for most trades.
- Complete Bid Books for pricing lump sum work
- Extrapolate QTO and pricing for simple schematic or conceptual pricing for most trades
- Provide appropriate benchmarking analysis based on available data
- Coordinate and manage meetings during the estimating process, and as needed during preconstruction
- Comfortable with volumetric trades and / or Subject Matter Expert (SME) trades - e.g. Site, Concrete
- Comfortable with trades covered by Subject Matter Experts (e.g. MEPs)
- Support Value Management pricing. Including offering VM ideas for most scopes of work.
- Support Reconciliation efforts during preconstruction.
- Manage team members' efforts to support projects led by the Preconstruction Manager. Train other estimators as needed.
WHAT YOU BRING:- B.S. in either civil engineering, construction management, architecture or an equivalent combination of technical training and equivalent experience
- Demonstrate knowledge of the regional construction market and a keen understanding of costs and pricing
- Ability to work successfully in a team environment
- Must have excellent time management and prioritization skills
- A strong attention to detail, high level of ownership, organizational skills, controlled sense of urgency, and the ability to manage multiple, competing priorities
- OSHA 10 safety training
- Demonstrate integrity, respect, and excellence in their work
- Understand both CSI formatting and Uni-Formatting styles of nomenclature.
- English Fluency
- Excel fluency
BENEFITS:- BOND offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution, paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and holidays, employer-paid life and disability insurance, and access to additional voluntary benefits.
- The expected salary range for this role is $165,000 to $210,000 per year. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, skills, and qualifications.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee must regularly lift or move objects up to 10 pounds and may lift or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
