Construction Estimator

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🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote

💵 $1.5k - $2.5k / month

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✨ Construction Estimator

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Agent

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1 - 10 employees

🤝 B2B

🎯 Recruiter

B2B • Recruitment

Agent is a staffing and recruiting company that focuses on helping businesses hire top-tier, specialty, and senior talent from around the globe. With expertise in recruitment, outsourcing, remote outsourcing, and virtual staffing, Agent provides solutions tailored to meet the diverse hiring needs of its clients.

📋 Description

• Perform quantity takeoffs and material/labor estimates from construction drawings, specifications, and PDF plan sets • Prepare complete bids, including scope sheets, inclusions, exclusions, and proposal packages • Issue RFQs to subcontractors and actively follow up to secure bid coverage • Make outbound phone calls to subcontractors and build professional relationships with smaller trade contractors • Collect, organize, and compare subcontractor quotations • Perform bid leveling and compare subcontractor proposals scope-for-scope to identify gaps, exclusions, and discrepancies • Review plans and specifications to identify scope requirements and potential issues • Raise and track RFIs when drawings or specifications are unclear • Manage multiple concurrent bids and maintain accurate status updates • Report bid progress, subcontractor coverage, outstanding quotes, and deadlines to the project leadership team • Learn and apply Chicago-specific construction codes, pricing, and union labor rates during onboarding • Own the bid pipeline from quantity takeoffs through bid submission • Coordinate directly with subcontractors and keep the team informed on bid coverage and deadlines

🎯 Requirements

• 3–10+ years of construction estimating experience, depending on level • Strong background in commercial construction estimating • Experience with retail, restaurant, tenant improvement, or other smaller-format commercial projects highly preferred • Strong ability to read and interpret commercial construction drawings, specifications, and blueprints • Civil engineering degree or equivalent technical/construction background preferred • Experience with PlanSwift, Bluebeam, Procore, ProConnect, Revit, AutoCAD, or comparable estimating/takeoff platforms • Fluent conversational English with strong phone communication skills • Comfortable making frequent outbound calls to subcontractors and following up until quotes are received • Highly organized and able to manage multiple bids, deadlines, and subcontractor conversations simultaneously • Comfortable learning and following a client's existing systems and processes • Able to work as a dedicated member of the team rather than as an independent freelancer • Resume must be formatted in English • Must be amenable to working in the U.S. timezone

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work • Full-time schedule • Independent contractor flexibility, with responsibility for managing work on your own terms • U.S. timezone work schedule flexibility across EST, MST, CST, and PST hours