Senior Estimator - Light Industrial

Cerris Builders

$90K — $120K *
Plano, TX 75025In-Person
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proficient in executing all estimating project assignments
  • Expertise in designated area of concentration
  • Advanced technical skills in cost analysis and project scheduling
  • Strong presentation and meeting facilitation skills
  • Ability to balance detailed analysis with broader issues
  • Demonstrated project leadership abilities with direct reporting
  • Detail-oriented approach to complex tasks and conflict resolution

Responsibilities

  • Manage high-value, complex estimating and preconstruction efforts
  • Collaborate with designers and clients on project assignments
  • Train and develop estimating personnel
  • Conduct cost and risk analysis for projects and mitigate risks
  • Identify and resolve conflicts in bid documents
  • Enhance productivity processes within estimating teams
  • Present project information to clients and internally, including project handoffs
  • Build and maintain relationships with design professionals and trade partners

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Collaborative work environment with design teams
  • Involvement in high-value and high-risk projects
  • Engagement in client interactions and presentations
  • Opportunity to develop industry connections
Full Job Description
Nature of Work

The Senior Estimator provides and coordinates complete estimating services for project pursuits as assigned; manages project pursuit including staff, and consultants.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

  • Manage estimating and preconstruction efforts on assigned projects. Perform critical preconstruction assignments consisting of high value, complex, and high-risk scopes.
  • Interact with designers and clients in performance of assignments. Coordinates the efforts of the design team on design-build projects as assigned.
  • Responsible for training and development of estimating personnel as assigned.
  • Responsible for performing cost and risk analysis on assigned projects. Provides risk analysis and proposes steps to mitigate risk.
  • Identify conflicts and ambiguities within the bid documents and coordinate trades to work towards resolution to ensure complete scope and responsive bid.
  • Work to enhance and refine established processes to maximize productivity of estimating teams.
  • Take part in presentations to clients. Conduct internal presentation of projects, and project handoffs.
  • Developing network of relationships with design professionals, owner's representatives', and clients, while maintaining a broad network of relationships with trade partners.
  • Manage and lead project handoff meetings. Actively participate in the 360 project review process. Ensure that action items are properly addressed and lessons learned are captured.
  • Monitor industry news and other sources for potential project pursuits and market trends. Communicate these opportunities to estimating leadership and business development.


Qualifications

  • Proficiency with all estimating project assignments
  • Developed expertise in prime area of concentration.
  • Demonstrates advanced level technical skillset in project scheduling, constructability reviews, compiling cost data, cost analysis, budgeting, proposal response, preconstruction services, general conditions and contract requirements review, and value engineering.
  • Conduct effective meetings and presentations to a variety of
    audiences.
  • Analytical Thinking - Works simultaneously with broad issues and detailed analysis. Can balance multiple perspectives.
  • Demonstrates sound project level leadership (1 direct
    report).
  • Attention to Detail - Ability to work with others on complex tasks while installing tools and checks to ensure accuracy.
  • Managing Conflicts - Proactive and empathetic in resolving
    interpersonal conflict.


Education

  • A minimum of a bachelor's degree from a four-year college/university
    or equivalent experience.


Experience

  • 10+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Field experience is highly preferred.


Physical Demands and Working Environment

  • Physical demands for this position are moderate. Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to do the work. However, there may be walking, standing, bending or lifting moderately heavy (25-50 pounds) items. The work may require specific but common physical characteristics and abilities such as above-average agility and dexterity. Availability to travel as needed.


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