Estimator- Metals

• Handling the project from first estimate all the way through contracts being formalized.

• Ability to look beyond the information that has been given, to ask the right questions and work to provide a complete metals cost evaluation and approach to the project.

• Must be aggressive in providing innovative solutions to complex issues as they arise related to cost, lead-times, trade partners, and/or specified products or materials.

• Ability to make reliable predictions as it relates to cost and be comfortable estimating across all aspects of construction.

• Must have experience preparing detailed conceptual metals cost estimates and conceptual cost studies from schematic or feasibility-level documentation.

• Ability to prepare detailed estimates and, as the design evolves, develop variance summaries between estimates and value engineering studies throughout.

• Ability to assemble and present a complete presentation-worthy estimate package that clearly communicates the estimate to any audience type.

• Must be able to collaborate with the entire project team to establish the necessary staffing and project requirements.

• Must have knowledge and understanding of unit costs and the factors that affect construction cost.

• Ability to prepare detailed instructions to bidders, trade specific clarifications and comprehensive bid packages for sub-tiers.

• Must have experience with the bidding process: soliciting bids, communicating with the bidders, evaluating subcontractor proposals, using bid tally sheets, etc.

• Work closely with Operations Team (Superintendents, Foreman, Project Managers, Etc) to refine estimate and ensure it is alignment with project approach, schedule, and logistics.

• Make subcontractor award recommendations and the negotiation and finalization of subcontracts with trade partners.

• Must have experience being a member of the team involved in request for proposal responses (RFP’s) and the formal presentation for a project.

• Ability to engage and develop business with new and existing customers.

• Ability to lead and facilitate value engineering sessions with the project team and design team.

• Must be familiar with reviewing construction contracts and can identify key risks that could affect the estimate.

• Can lead, manage and motivate project teams during the preconstruction phase of a project.

Qualifications

• 5+ years structural steel and/or miscellaneous metals estimating
• Experience with both fabrication and field erection costs
• Ability to read structural, architectural, and shop drawings
• Strong understanding of AISC standards and steel construction practices
• Experience pricing:
  • Structural steel
  • Stairs
  • Railings
  • Miscellaneous metals
  • Decking
  • Joist/girder packages
• Proficient in Bluebeam and Excel
• Ability to prepare bid packages, clarifications, and exclusions

Risk Identification and understanding the following:

• Access
• Crane requirements
• Schedule constraints
• Connections
• Tolerances

Erection Estimating and understanding:

• Piece count
• Complexity
• Height
• Access
• Welding requirements
• Crane picks

Collaboration with operations:

• Being able to sit with a superintendent and foreman and gain buy-in.
• Coordination between GC precon teams and SPW

Preferred Background

• Tekla, SDS2, Advance Steel, or BIM experience
• Experience within a company that has done Fab as well and erection
• Design-build experience