Senior Estimator

Job Title: Senior Estimator

COMANCO Environmental Corporation is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Estimator to join our team. As a Senior Estimator, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the success of our construction projects by providing accurate and comprehensive cost estimates. Your responsibilities will extend to planning, coordinating, and supervising the Estimating Department, offering technical and administrative direction to ensure the attainment of corporate objectives.

Job Focus:

Leadership:

• Manage and administer department functions including operating budgets, staffing, wage reviews, work assignments, performance evaluations, etc.

• Responsible for ensuring the initial and ongoing training of employees in the Estimating Department. This includes basic understanding of estimating concepts, corporate philosophy, and proficient use of software systems.

• Review estimating staff's data to determine if the correct material and labor requirements have been determined.

• Review cost factors prepared by staff and supervised preparation of detail estimates used for management purposes such as planning, organizing, and scheduling work; preparing bids; selecting vendors or subcontractors; and determining cost effectiveness.

Collaboration and Client Relations:

• Assist corporate management determine what types of projects to bid as well as the strategies and techniques to implement.

• Consult with clients, vendors, or other individuals to discuss and formulate estimates and resolve issues not resolved by the estimating staff.

• Interface with company senior management and other individuals in the organization to obtain support and commitment to the cost estimates.

• Participate in presentations to corporate management and clients. Manage existing clients' needs in reference to preliminary budgeting resulting in negotiated work.

• Provide technical assistance during estimating phases per clients' needs.

• Provide technical assistance in negotiating value engineering, contracts, change orders, etc. as required.

Estimating, Analysis, and Trends:

• Assist in the preparation of studies, materials and methods, recommendations, and cost estimates as required.

• Review all final estimate packages to ensure accuracy and completeness, prior to formal quotation/submittal.

• Develop new processes and or methods/techniques proprietary to the Company.

• Organize and manage a centralized cost estimating database and a formal process to support cost estimating to ensure historical data is utilized.

• Analyze completed projects to compare estimated costs to actual costs and determine the reason for any discrepancies.

• Provide improvement recommendations to cost estimating procedures to reduce future discrepancies between estimated and actual costs.

• Identify cost trends to assist management in cost reduction and process improvement efforts.

Qualifications and Expectations:

• Travel as needed to fulfill position requirements.

• Education and Experience: A 4-year degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Business or a combination of related coursework or six years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Contact Management systems; Design software; Development software; Internet software; and Project Management software.

COMANCO is an Equal Opportunity Employer: minority/female/disability/veteran

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Drug-free Workplace under Federal Law