Senior Estimator - Multifamily

Position Summary: 

To provide preconstruction services to clients with primary responsibility for leading and managing all estimating portions of a project.  Provides complete and accurate estimates while providing leadership, training and mentoring for the project team.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Administrative Skills:

• Develop and maintain an internal cost history database for all trades through conceptual estimating and analysis of bid results
• Assist the Qualification Administrator and/or Estimating Administrator in maintaining current prequalification information and status of subcontractors and vendors
• Assist in the development of internal department estimating procedures and standards

Management Skills:

• Supervise assisting staff
• Assist the project team in ancillary issues such as life cycle cost assessments and operational pros and cons
• Assist the project team in design decisions and assist the project design team in development of appropriate systems solutions
• Assist in coordinating bid efforts, processing RFI’s and interfacing between bidding community and design team members on negotiated projects
• Assist the VP of Estimating and Preconstruction and/or Chief Estimator in preparation of responses to RFP’s and RFQ’s
• Represent CWD to all subcontractors through management of the estimating process to include solicitation of bids/budget requests, evaluation of responses and reconciliation to budget, value engineering and constructability input.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Establish and maintain positive and effective working relationships with all (client, architect, subcontractors, project team, various CWD departments)
• Promote CWD “Values” with client, architect and subcontractors
• Ensure that all personal and company policies are administered in a fair and consistent manner
• Mentor, coach and train as necessary to ensure that subordinates achieve their career objectives
• Participate in interview rehearsals and presentations
• Negotiate with owners and subcontractors

Technical Skills:

• Perform detailed quantity surveys
• Prepare comprehensive bid forms, bid packages, scope sheets and subcontractor comparison sheets
• Prepare scope definition and Inclusion/Exclusion lists for all trades on a project
• Prepare Bid Book
• Author the complete proposal including all other documents and required correspondence
• Provide value engineering assessment of alternative design solutions including initial cost, schedule implications and constructability issues
• Perform project transition duties from Estimating to Operations
• Assist in the final scoping, award and buyout of all trades on hard-bid and negotiated projects