Senior Estimator – Commercial Construction

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Powerhouse

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2004

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

Logistics • Construction • Consulting

Powerhouse is a company that specializes in nationwide facility maintenance, offering tailored infrastructure management solutions to various industries. Their services include routine facility maintenance, reactive services for unexpected events, exterior services such as landscaping and snow & ice removal, parking lot maintenance, and multi-site enhancement services for rollouts and refresh programs. Powerhouse excels in combining people, processes, and technology to deliver exceptional service. They focus on proactive, scheduled maintenance as well as reactive solutions to maximize business efficiency. Their comprehensive service offerings cater to industries such as commercial real estate, financial services, healthcare, and transportation, among others.

📋 Description

• Manage day-to-day operations of the Estimating Department • Manage and assign opportunities using established systems and processes • Maintain team and talent balance while considering deadlines, risk mitigation, and submittal complexity • Lead and execute estimating efforts aligned with company objectives • Identify risks and opportunities related to pricing strategy and propose solutions • Analyze the impact of decisions and changes on bid submittals and apply key learnings to future bids • Train team members on key learnings and industry and company best practices • Analyze complex projects and divide work categories into functional stages for estimator/team assignments • Develop systems and processes to improve estimating team efficiency and accuracy • Manage team members’ communication, presentations, and negotiations with subcontractors, construction managers, architects, and engineers • Lead estimating teams and/or independently create comprehensive proposals for client opportunities • Prepare program management plans, Q&A responses, project concern identifications, and bid document submittals • Lead the estimating team in a deadline-driven environment • Create and maintain peer and subordinate bid coaching, evaluation, and approval processes • Supervise or directly prepare quantity take-offs, assumed specifications, and market-accurate cost factors • Supervise or directly evaluate subcontractor quotes and qualify vendor proposals for scope duplication or omissions • Draft and negotiate written subcontractor scopes of work • Partner with Operations to collect and analyze execution data and apply learnings to future bids • Manage multiple projects and priorities during the business day • Participate in pre-bid reviews, post-bid reviews, turnover meetings, after-action reviews, and quarterly business meetings • Perform other responsibilities as necessary

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university preferred, or equivalent experience/training • At least four (4) years’ experience estimating commercial, retail, and multi-family projects of various sizes, including estimating and purchasing activities • Wide general knowledge base, networking, and recent interaction with sub-tier vendors, public authorities, and utilities in the region • Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills • Strong time management skills • Strong sense of urgency • Strong written and verbal communication skills and comfort presenting • Comfortable in an ever-changing environment • Self-motivated, reliable, and attentive to detail • Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications and applicable software systems • Proficient with construction estimating, construction document take-off, and bidding software systems • Proficient with project management software applications • Ability to work in an office environment with frequent sitting, walking, and standing, occasional climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and balancing • Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement