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Senior Estimator

We are seeking an experienced Senior Estimator who can help expand our estimating capacity while maintaining accurate pricing, disciplined risk review, clear project documentation, and profitable growth.

• Manage assigned opportunities from initial document receipt through final bid submission.
• Review invitations to bid, plans, specifications, geotechnical reports, permits, addenda, bid forms, contracts, schedules, and other project documents.
• Identify the complete scope of work required by the bid documents.
• Develop an estimating plan and schedule for each assigned opportunity.
• Confirm bid deadlines, internal review dates, quote due dates, site-visit requirements, and submission instructions.
• Determine which scopes will be self-performed, subcontracted, vendor-supplied, or otherwise coordinated.
• Perform or validate detailed quantity takeoffs.
• Organize work into logical bid items, activities, phases, crews, and cost components.
• Develop detailed estimates for labor, equipment, materials, trucking, subcontractors, indirect costs, bonds, permits, testing, supervision, and project-specific requirements.
• Prepare estimates that are complete, understandable, reviewable, and ready for transfer to operations.
• Manage multiple estimates simultaneously while meeting firm deadlines.

• Project Startup and General Conditions
• Demolition and Clearing
• Earthwork and Grading
• Underground Utilities
• Base, Concrete, and Asphalt
• Subcontracted and Specialty Work

• Determine practical and efficient construction means and methods.
• Develop realistic construction sequences and project phasing.
• Select appropriate labor crews and equipment.
• Establish production rates based on actual field capabilities.
• Evaluate access, staging, haul routes, disposal areas, stockpile locations, and trucking cycles.
• Analyze excavation depth, groundwater, soil conditions, utility congestion, weather exposure, and site restrictions.
• Consider project schedule, sequencing, traffic requirements, testing, inspections, and permit limitations.
• Identify operations that can occur concurrently and those that must be sequenced.
• Review project requirements with operations personnel when field input is needed.
• Avoid relying solely on generic production assumptions when project conditions require adjustment.
• Document the basis for significant production assumptions.

• Level competing proposals on a consistent basis.
• Identify missing scope, duplicate scope, allowances, and pricing risk.
• Communicate with vendors and subcontractors to resolve scope discrepancies.
• Negotiate pricing and terms when appropriate.
• Document selected pricing and the basis for vendor selection.
• Confirm that quotes remain valid through the anticipated project schedule.
• Support vendor and subcontractor buyout following award.

• Identify scope gaps, design conflicts, constructability concerns, and unusual requirements.
• Review project access, phasing, schedule, and logistics.
• Evaluate liquidated damages, warranties, maintenance periods, retainage, testing, permits, and bond requirements.
• Identify contract language that may create cost or schedule exposure.
• Review geotechnical information and determine its impact on excavation, groundwater, unsuitable soils, and pavement construction.
• Identify quantity risk and incomplete design information.
• Develop clear estimate assumptions and qualifications.
• Prepare a risk and opportunity assessment for major estimates.
• Identify value-engineering opportunities.
• Evaluate alternate materials and construction methods.
• Confirm that all addenda have been incorporated.
• Complete a detailed self-review before submitting the estimate for management review.
• Review estimates prepared by other team members.
• Identify unreasonable productions, missing activities, pricing errors, and scope inconsistencies.
• Present estimate strategy, major costs, risks, assumptions, and recommended pricing to company leadership.
• Participate in final markup and pricing discussions.
• Maintain confidentiality regarding company costs, pricing, markup, and bid strategy.

• Prepare clear proposal scope based on the completed estimate.
• Confirm that proposal line items agree with HeavyBid.
• Reconcile proposal quantities, bid forms, and estimate totals.
• Develop clear inclusions, exclusions, assumptions, and clarifications.
• Prepare alternates and unit prices when required.
• Coordinate bid-document requirements with the Bid Coordinator.
• Attend pre-bid meetings and site visits.
• Prepare questions and requests for information.
• Review responses and incorporate relevant changes into the estimate.
• Confirm that required bid forms, acknowledgments, certifications, and attachments are complete.
• Ensure assigned bids are ready before the submission deadline.
• Participate in post-bid scope reviews and contractor interviews.
• Assist with proposal revisions and pricing negotiations.
• Maintain organized final bid records.

• Explain the intended means and methods, construction sequence, crews, productions, and major assumptions.
• Identify high-risk activities and areas requiring early management attention.
• Provide the final vendor and subcontractor quote comparison.
• Confirm selected suppliers and subcontractors.
• Organize buyout information by scope.
• Support preparation of purchase orders, commitments, and subcontract scopes.
• Identify long-lead materials and early submittal requirements.
• Assist with establishing the Procore budget and cost-code structure.
• Confirm that project budget values reconcile to the final estimate.
• Provide scope sheets and pricing backup for the project team.
• Identify allowances, alternates, exclusions, and unpurchased scope.
• Remain available during project startup to answer estimate-related questions.
• Support estimate-versus-actual reviews.
• Incorporate lessons learned into future estimates and HeavyBid standards.

• Serve as a technical resource for other estimators.
• Mentor developing estimators and estimating support staff.
• Assign takeoff, quote, and estimate tasks on larger opportunities.
• Review work before final management review.
• Provide constructive feedback and identify training needs.
• Establish clear standards for estimate organization and documentation.
• Promote consistent HeavyBid practices across the estimating team.
• Help standardize earthwork, underground, concrete, base, and asphalt estimating procedures.
• Ensure estimates are understandable to someone other than the original estimator.
• Support the development of repeatable estimating workflows.
• Help increase department capacity without reducing estimate quality.
• Promote accountability, accuracy, communication, and deadline compliance.

• Compare estimated labor, equipment, material, and subcontractor costs against actual project performance.
• Review estimated productions against field production.
• Identify recurring estimating errors or cost-code issues.
• Update HeavyBid crews, activities, resources, and productions based on verified information.
• Maintain historical supplier and subcontractor pricing.
• Improve quote-leveling and buyout procedures.
• Recommend improvements to estimating templates and estimate structure.
• Support integration between HeavyBid, Procore, accounting, and field reporting systems.
• Work with operations and financial personnel to improve cost feedback.
• Help create reliable historical data that can be used for future pricing and planning.

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Word
• Cloud-based document and file-management systems

• SharePoint
• HCSS HeavyBid
• Procore
• Bluebeam Revu
• Accounting or enterprise resource planning systems used by heavy civil contractors

• Prepare bid-leveling sheets.
• Compare supplier and subcontractor proposals.
• Review large pricing schedules.
• Reconcile estimate quantities against bid forms.
• Calculate unit costs and extended amounts.
• Verify markups and estimate totals.
• Identify duplicate or missing line items.
• Organize estimate-review information.
• Prepare clear internal summaries.
• Analyze historical cost and production data.

• At least seven years of heavy civil, utility, earthwork, or site-development estimating experience.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading complete estimates.
• Recent, hands-on experience building complete estimates in HCSS HeavyBid.
• Strong working knowledge of Procore.
• Proficiency with Bluebeam Revu and Microsoft Excel.
• Strong understanding of self-performed heavy civil construction.
• Experience estimating earthwork, underground utilities, drainage, base, concrete, and asphalt.
• Ability to read and interpret civil plans, specifications, geotechnical reports, permits, contracts, and bid documents.
• Strong understanding of crew composition, equipment selection, labor productivity, and construction sequencing.
• Experience developing production-based estimates.
• Experience soliciting, evaluating, and leveling supplier and subcontractor quotes.
• Experience identifying scope gaps, constructability issues, and project risk.
• Ability to manage several concurrent estimates.
• Ability to meet firm internal and external deadlines.
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills.
• Strong organizational and document-management skills.
• Professional written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to present and defend an estimate during management review.
• Ability to mentor estimating personnel and review their work.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Ability to attend project site visits, pre-bid meetings, and contractor meetings.

• Experience estimating civil site-development projects in Florida.
• Experience with municipal, county, FDOT, commercial, institutional, industrial, and private-development work.
• Experience estimating projects in Volusia, Flagler, St. Johns, Seminole, and Brevard Counties.
• Field experience as a Project Manager, Project Engineer, Superintendent, Foreman, or Field Engineer.
• Experience with earthwork modeling software.
• Experience developing HeavyBid codebooks, standard crews, activities, resources, and master estimates.
• Experience transferring HeavyBid estimates into Procore budgets.
• Experience reviewing actual project costs and field productions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or a related field.

• Estimate ownership
• Heavy civil construction knowledge
• HCSS HeavyBid proficiency
• Procore proficiency
• Production-based estimating
• Digital takeoff and plan review
• Construction means and methods
• Scope control
• Risk identification
• Constructability review
• Vendor and subcontractor management
• Bid leveling
• Cost-code and budget organization
• Estimate-to-operations handoff
• Leadership and mentoring
• Accountability
• Attention to detail
• Deadline management
• Professional communication
• Strategic thinking
• Continuous improvement

• Completeness and accuracy of assigned estimates.
• Ability to independently manage complex bids.
• Consistent and correct use of HCSS HeavyBid.
• Effective use of Procore and supporting technology.
• Accuracy of quantities, productions, crews, and pricing.
• Identification of scope gaps and risks before submission.
• Timely completion of estimates and internal reviews.
• Quality of supplier and subcontractor quote leveling.
• Clarity of proposals, assumptions, and estimate documentation.
• Quality of awarded-project handoffs.
• Accuracy of estimate-to-budget transfer.
• Development and support of other estimators.
• Improvement of historical cost and production information.
• Contribution to profitable backlog and company growth.

• Navigate an existing HCSS HeavyBid estimate.
• Set up or modify bid items and activities.
• Create and adjust labor and equipment crews.
• Explain how activity productions were developed.
• Review a sample estimate for missing or incorrect costs.
• Review supplier or subcontractor quotes for scope gaps.
• Level competing proposals in Excel.
• Review a sample plan set using Bluebeam.
• Explain how estimate information should transfer from HeavyBid into Procore.
• Present the major risks and pricing considerations of a sample project.