Senior Concrete Estimator
HIGHLIGHTS
Location: Spring, TX - FULLY ONSITE POSITION
Position Type: Direct Hire
Salary: Based on experience ($165K - $200K annual salary)
Residency Status: US Citizen or Green Card Holder ONLY
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Our client is seeking a Senior Commercial Concrete Estimator for an in-office role. This position will manage 5 junior level estimators. The average job size is $2.5 million. Customers range from churches, schools, and retail shops to mid-rise structures.
Job Description:
Prepares cost estimates by analyzing proposals, project drawings, project specifications, and other related documents along with all other owner or customer requirements.
Work is generally performed in an office setting. Occasional visits to construction job sites may be required to fully ascertain the nature of the project requirements. The employee must provide his/her own transportation, and hand tools, as required by the trade, and be willing to travel within a 70-mile radius of the Houston metropolitan area.
The customer offers performance-based advancement and a fast-paced environment
Position Responsibilities:
Below is a list of some of the responsibilities required from individuals seeking this position. Other responsibilities may be assigned, depending on the individual’s work experience and skill.
- Arrive to work on time and fit for duty.
- Prepares work to be estimated by gathering proposals, blueprints, specifications, and related documents.
- Identifies labor, material, and time requirements by studying proposals, blueprints, specifications, and related documents.
- Computes costs by analyzing labor, material, and time requirements.
- Resolves discrepancies by collecting and analyzing information.
- Presents prepared estimates by assembling and displaying numerical and descriptive information.
- Prepares special reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
- Maintains cost database by entering and backing up data.
- Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; and reviewing technical publications.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Follow all safety rules to ensure his/her own safety and that of others on the job site.
- Wear the required protective equipment required by the task.
Qualifications:
- Below is a list of the qualifications and skills required from individuals seeking this position. Other qualifications and skills may be required, depending on the individual’s work experience and salary expectations. Analyzing information, estimating, planning, reporting research results, data center experience, strategic planning, attention to detail, informing others, requirements analysis
- Able to complete assigned work on time, as instructed, and with minimal supervision.
- Able to successfully pass a drug screen and background screening.
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Able to resolve conflicts or revisions to the plans; and communicate with the project team (i.e. client, general contractor, project manager, other superiors, architect, engineer, consultant, owner) for mutual resolution, prior to finalizing estimates.
Education & Experience:
- 10 years of commercial construction experience
- 5 years of commercial concrete estimation experience.
- Must have experience supervising people.
- Must be computer literate, including knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, word, project & Outlook), one or more estimating software, and PlanGrid is preferred.
Language Skills:
Ability to read and interpret documents such as project specifications, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; Ability to write routine reports and correspondence; Ability to speak effectively to individuals, at all levels, and to groups of customers, suppliers, vendors and/or employees.
Mathematical Skills:
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
- Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
Physical Demands:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. This position involves occasional work at a construction site where duties will be performed both indoors and outdoors, with exposure to varying weather conditions.
- Overtime may be required to meet project deadlines.
- Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other business machines. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit for extended periods. Occasionally required to stand and walk; Use hands to finger, handle, or feel; Reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and Talk or hear.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- The employee may be occasionally required to ascend or descend to/from excavations and ditches traversing on ladders, ramps, or dirt steps; transition from one surface level to another; walk on uneven surfaces; hear different levels of sound, such as normal verbal communication, sounds from the activity of other workers on the work area, vehicular traffic (on public roads or within the job site), equipment or machinery operating near-by (motors running, horns and back-up alarms), and other general construction work-related sounds and noises; work in high or precarious places (structural work); wear steel-toe work boots; and occasionally wear personal fall arrest systems such as a harness, standard lanyard, self-retracting lanyard, and similar equipment (structural work).
- This position requires the individual to work independently and within a team environment.
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