Senior Estimator

Job Description
Leadership

• Ultimately responsible for the success of the Project the individual is working on.
• Lead a Preconstruction Team for any project at any stage of documents.
• Develop a Responsibilities Matrix and Project Execution Plan for every project the estimator is leading

Get Work

• Must be prepared to participate and often lead the preparation and presentation of cost / budget information to the customer/owner.
• Participating and Leading in RFP Responses, interviews, and client proposal efforts
• Ability to engage and develop business with new and existing customers.
• Ability to lead the preparation and presentation of cost / budget information to the customer/owner.
• Creates Preconstruction Projects in Cosential and CMIC, Creates and Manages CMIC Preconstruction Budgets

Do Work

• Handling the project from first estimate all the way through subcontracts being formalized.
• Can participate in any role within the Precon Group - from ITB to GMP to Procurement from Concept Estimate to 100% Documents.
• Ability to look beyond the information that has been given, to ask the right questions and work to provide a complete project cost evaluation.
• Must be a collaborative and passionate advocate for our customers, empowering and informing them throughout 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 scopes of work.
• Detailed cost estimates and cost studies from concept through 100% construction documents
• Develop and present variance summaries from estimate to estimate.
• Develop and present Value Engineering strategies for all types of projects.
• Ability to assemble and present a complete estimate package that clearly communicates project cost.
• Collaborate with project team to establish the necessary staffing and project requirements.
• Knowledge and understanding of unit costs and the factors that affect construction cost for every trade package across all core markets.
• Prepare detailed instructions to bidders, develop bid lists, set up DPR Bid Documents during the bid period
• Develop Attachment 2 Scopes of work for all bid packages
• Develop and complete Tally Sheets / Scope Sheets for GMPs and Hard Bids.
• Understands, develops, analyzes proper Code 51 & 52 for every project.
• Responsible for developing Hard Bid and GMP submissions complete - Executive Summary, Detailed GMP, Clarifications, Tally Sheets, Backup, etc.
• Has deep relationships with numerous Trade Partners
• Manages and participates in the entire bidding process: soliciting bids, communicating with the bidders, evaluating subcontractor proposals, using bid tally sheets, etc.
• Manages and participates in the entire procurement process: finalizing Attachment 2s, Subcontracting Procedures, providing FOC and Project Team with applicable information to issue a Subcontract
• Is an expert on Prequalification and capable of selecting Trade Partners based on their Prequalification.
• Negotiate Scope of Work terms and conditions within the Attachment 2
• Develops and submits subcontractor award recommendations to customer/owner
• Must be familiar with reviewing construction contracts and can identify key insurance and damages clauses.
• Ability to lead and facilitate value engineering sessions with the project team and design team.
• Is a key participant with leadership experience involved in request for proposal responses (RFP's) and the formal presentation for a project.
• Has an understanding of the market and current conditions
• Has metrics for scopes of work and core markets to analyze all levels of estimates.
• Reviews MSRs on a monthly basis for the major projects

Take Care of People

• Can lead, manage and motivate project teams during the preconstruction phase of a project.
• Host career development and performance discussions with the Estimators and Estimating Assistants assigned to them.

DPR has been nationally recognized for its strong company culture, based on a well-defined purpose "We Exist to Build Great Things," and four core values: integrity, enjoyment, uniqueness and ever forward. A flat, title-less organization that empowers people at all levels to make decisions, DPR ranked on FORTUNE's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list for five consecutive years. For more information, visit