DPR Construction is seeking a senior estimator with at least 8 years of commercial construction experience. The ideal candidate will have excellent listening skills, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple tasks, produce quality work, and consistently meet deadlines.
Requirements
- Handling the project from first estimate all the way through subcontracts being formalized
- Ability to look beyond the information that has been given, to ask the right questions and work to provide a complete project cost evaluation
- Must be a collaborative and passionate advocate for our customers, empowering and informing them throughout the project
- Must be aggressive in providing innovative solutions to complex issues as they arise related to cost, lead-times, trade partners, and/or specified products or materials
- Ability to make reliable predictions as it relates to cost and be comfortable estimating across all scopes of work
- Must have experience preparing detailed conceptual cost estimates and conceptual cost studies from schematic or feasibility-level documentation
- Ability to prepare detailed estimates and, as the design evolves, develop variance summaries between estimates and value engineering studies throughout
- Ability to assemble a complete presentation-worthy estimate package that clearly communicates project cost
- Must be able to collaborate with project team to establish the necessary staffing and project requirements
- Must have knowledge and understanding of unit costs and the factors that affect construction cost
- Ability to prepare detailed instructions to bidders, trade specific clarifications and comprehensive bid packages
- Must have experience with the bidding process: soliciting bids, communicating with the bidders, evaluating subcontractor proposals, using bid tally sheets, etc.
- Make subcontractor award recommendations to customer/owner and the negotiation and finalization of subcontracts with trade partners
- Must be prepared to participate and often lead the preparation and presentation of cost / budget information to the customer/owner
- Must have experience being a member of the team involved in request for proposal responses (RFP’s) and the formal presentation for a project
- Ability to engage and develop business with new and existing customers
- Ability to lead the preparation and presentation of cost / budget information to the customer/owner
- Ability to lead and facilitate value engineering sessions with the project team and design team
- Is a key participant with leadership experience involved in request for proposal responses (RFP’s) and the formal presentation for a project
- Must be familiar with reviewing construction contracts and can identify key insurance and damages clauses
- Can lead, manage and motivate project teams during the preconstruction phase of a project
Benefits
- Paid time off
- 401k matching
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
