Plumbing Estimator

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🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

✨ Estimator

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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The A Career

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2022

📚 Education

👥 B2C

Education • B2C

The A Career is an online learning platform that teaches architects, designers, and engineers practical, job-ready skills to obtain remote work. It offers 100% online courses focused on professional tools and standards (examples: Civil 3D for US subdivisions, furniture design and manufacturing, NYC building code and urban form, plumbing and fire protection budgeting) plus resources like ebooks, a podcast, and career support to help students build portfolios and access remote job opportunities. Courses are sold directly to individuals and emphasize applied projects aligned with industry standards.

📋 Description

• Join the pre-construction team as the key technical specialist for plumbing and sprinkler systems estimating • Interpret complex blueprints and perform comprehensive quantity takeoffs for hydro-sanitary and fire protection systems • Perform drafting, layout work, calculations, take-offs, and budgets for construction details • Prepare drawings from supplied plans and sketches • Perform component-based material take-offs from prepared shop drawings • Manage the department's day-to-day workflow and output, prioritizing and assigning projects • Calculate project time and budget estimates based on required materials and resources • Maintain a system for recurring or standard projects • Ensure finished projects align with customer and project requirements • Perform other job-related duties as required

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced English knowledge: upper intermediate, advanced or proficient • Strong and verifiable engineering/architectural background and experience • 2+ years of construction estimating experience, with specific hands-on knowledge of plumbing and sprinkler systems • Knowledge of domestic cold/hot water networks, recirculation loops, control valves, pressure regulators, and backflow preventers • Knowledge of storage/tankless heaters, boilers, heat exchangers, circulating pumps, and expansion tanks • Knowledge of sanitary waste, vent piping, storm downspouts, required slopes, cleanouts, and drainage accessories • Knowledge of wet, dry, pre-action, and deluge sprinkler systems • Knowledge of standpipe systems, FDCs, supervisory devices, and test/drain assemblies • Knowledge of booster, sump, sewage ejector, fire, and jockey pumps, including components and hook-ups • Knowledge of steel, copper, cast iron, PVC, CPVC, and PEX piping applications and joining methods • Knowledge of commercial/residential fixtures, hangers, anchors, seismic bracing, insulation, and firestop seals • Understanding of flow rate, pressure, and head loss • Mastery of blueprint legends, abbreviations, equipment schedules, and digital scale calibration • Ability to perform drafting, layout work, straightforward calculations, take-offs, and budgets • Ability to prepare drawings from supplied plans and sketches • Ability to perform component-based material take-offs from prepared shop drawings • Advanced proficiency in Bluebeam, PlanSwift, On-Screen Takeoff, or equivalent tools • Mastery of Excel • Ability to navigate plans in AutoCAD; familiarity with Revit/BIM workflows is a plus • Sharp attention to detail and strong organization in managing design revisions • Solid written and verbal communication skills • Ability to communicate information between expert teams • Prioritization skills and ability to follow specific instructions • Knowledge of PlanSwift or similar software is desirable • Ability to use Google Suite, Microsoft Office, Hubstaff, WhatsApp, Zoom, AutoCAD, and PDF Editor • Own computer with internet access • Required English voice note and work samples/portfolio in PDF format

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay in US Dollars • Paid extra hours • Time-off flexibility • 100% remote work • Opportunity to grow • International experience