Senior Construction Estimator

JOB PURPOSE Responsible for estimating and bidding construction projects by collaborating with construction, brokerage, management and investment teams. Successfully manage budget and bid processes to determine project feasibility or win competitive bids representing Burns Scalo Development.

Principal (Essential) Duties

• Calculate quantities and costs of construction items for estimating projects – proficiency in all trades, primarily in office construction. Retail/restaurant, light industrial, laboratory and ground up construction are all targeted markets as well.
• Create and send invitation to bid documents to appropriate subcontractors.
• Formulate detailed scope of work by trade for projects independently $500k package and under – large scopes may require peer review.
• Organize and lead bid walk through meetings with subcontractors. Maintain relationships with subcontractors and clients.
• Estimate general condition and overhead items for each project.
• Receive, organize, and qualify subcontractor bids received to ensure scope of work is completely covered prior to submitting bid or presenting owner budget.
• Bid, qualify and award all subcontractors for individual projects. Prepare and present project Bid Book to tenants and/or ownership. Negotiate as necessary.
• Able to creatively manage owner expectations and budget constraints by communicating value engineering ideas to architect and engineer.
• Facilitate successful handoff to project manager upon budget approval or award of contract.
• Create and manage project budgets, develop, and collaborate on pre-construction Request for Proposal packages.
• Manage estimating workload by coordinating with construction team (project engineers, APMs, PMs for assistance with large bid efforts and budget tasks.
• Manage small interior fitout projects as needed. Establish job processes including Requests for Information (RFI’s), submittals, Change Order Logs, meeting minutes, and pay applications. Negotiate subcontract change orders. Assume 10% time, based on estimating workload.

SECONDARY DUTIES 1. Contribute ideas for company cost savings and/or origination generation.

• Participate in staff development, trainings, employee events, and meetings as required.
• Develop, monitor, and update PRDs on an ongoing basis.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.