Website Worldwide Recruitment Solutions
As the Estimating Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s bidding strategy, overseeing estimating operations, and ensuring accurate, competitive, and strategic cost estimates for high-impact projects.
Essential Functions Statement(s):
- Directly lead the estimating department and provide leadership to staff. Mentor direct reports to facilitate positive change; recommends corrective action, including personnel change, if necessary.
- Prepare clear and detailed cost estimates by analyzing plans and specifications and performing quantity take-offs.
- Ensures proper document control and distribution for all bid documents and proposals; distributes bid documents to appropriate internal and external personnel.
- Develop subcontract scope for projects and manage the subcontractor RFP process; qualify and level subcontractors’ proposals according to project specifics.
- Interact with customers, engineers, and subcontractors to understand and incorporate project objectives, schedules, permits, and costs.
- Assist with turnover process by providing proper documentation related to project; provides on-going technical support during the project execution phase.
Requirements
- B.S. degree in engineering or construction management preferred.
- 15+ years of directly related experience with at least 3 years in a leadership position.
- Knowledge and understanding of various commercial terms and conditions.
- Extensive experience in power delivery estimating, with industry practices, legal standards, and market trends.
- Able to communicate effectively.
- Able to process high volume of work while maintaining attention to detail and quality.
