ESTIMATOR

Description

• Participate in budget kick-off and review meetings, including superintendent peer reviews
• Periodically visit job sites to strengthen relationships within Lewis, obtain estimating feedback, and expand construction knowledge
• Develop relationships with key design teams and clients through over-the-shoulder, collaborative estimating. Represent Lewis as a trusted advisor to our clients and influencers
• Train various personnel within the Operations group on Lewis’ estimating tools, templates, and standards
• Develop relationships throughout Lewis Operations staff to partner on the generation of budgets that can be achieved during the execution of actual project parameters and constraints
• Connect with actual project costs to ensure future work is budgeted with the benefit of current performance
• Participate in collection, discussion, and communication of internal data on current market trends and escalation
• Collect, synthesize and compare Lewis historical costs, self-performed work productivities, project crew mix and overtime performance, etc.
• Team with the Preconstruction group to innovate, automate, and improve estimating and preconstruction tools
• Tabulate project cost summaries and comparisons for completed projects
• Identify, plan, and complete special departmental assignments for lean process development and standardization
• Build expertise in pricing self-performed work, general conditions, and construction work support
• Enter subcontractor pricing into final estimates
• Collaborate with Sr. Estimators, Pre-con Managers, and project operations leads to complete estimate work plans for each effort
• Enter surveyed quantities into final estimates
• Develop relationships with our subcontractors to obtain timely, responsive, accurate quotes, and further understand their means and methods
• Develop and update budget comparisons of similar systems, summarized and with detail
• Extract and catalog unit pricing from subcontractor budgets for useful reference by others
• Team with project operations to assist in RFP development
• Extract unit pricing information from subcontractors’ budgets and bids to ensure we maintain connection to current market pricing
• Procure subcontractor pricing consistent with estimating work plans. Use invitation to bid software to host project budget documents, communicate budget/bid requirements, and solicit pricing from subcontractors
• Liaise with Sr. Estimators, Pre-con Managers, and project operations leads as estimates progress toward completion.
• Follow up with solicited subcontractors during budget timeframes to ensure adequate scope coverage and timely receipts of responsive pricing
• Partner with both the Preconstruction and Operations groups to integrate detailed safety planning early into our budgeting and preconstruction efforts
• Review budgets/bids for scope alignment. Follow-up with subcontractors if budgets/bids don’t align with our expectations, or if more information is required
• Partner with operations teams, including field resources, to ensure budgets incorporate thoughtful phasing, scheduling, sequencing, hoisting, and safety considerations
• Use Sage and Excel to price budgets in detail and then summarize for communication and variance tracking

Requirements

• Proficiency with estimating software. Lewis primarily uses Sage software for detailed estimates, Bluebeam for onscreen takeoff, and Excel for budget summaries, variances, and comparisons
• Familiarity with all major elements of commercial building construction and a working knowledge of high-level pricing metrics for major systems, including site/civil, structure, exterior closure, interiors, vertical transportation, and MEP elements
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent years of work experience can apply
• Proven hands on estimating and budget/bid preparation experience with ability to produce estimate work products either independently or collaboratively with other teammates
• Solid understanding of utilization of Revit models for scope review, communication and quantity generation and extraction
• Possess thorough understanding of how VDC/BIM integrates into the estimating process
• Excellent communication skills, and able to clarify and present budgets both internally to project operations leads and externally to clients and design teams

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance