Job Description

The Estimator is responsible for preparing accurate time, cost, and labor estimates for assigned projects by applying knowledge of specialized methodologies, techniques, principles, and/or processes. The Estimator is also responsible for assembling bid proposals and following up with clients to identify and overcome obstacles that prevent Kent Companies from being awarded the contract.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Information Management: Collect relevant information and execute timely follow-ups to ensure effective communication and internal and external project closure. Secure bid tabs to track your market.
• Relationship Building: Develop and sustain strong relationships with prospects, customers, vendors, subcontractors, and key stakeholders.
• Risk and Opportunity Assessment: Identify competitive advantages and potential risks for each project, communicating and evaluating them with the Preconstruction & Division Manager.
• Value Engineering: Provide cost-effective engineering solutions and design assistance, considering impacts on cost and schedule.
• Contract Review: Analyze contractual requirements, specifications, and drawings to develop a construction plan that will serve as the foundation for cost estimation. This includes scope reviews for accuracy.
• Project Take-Off: Accurately conduct a detailed project take-off to quantify all items within the project scope.
• Comprehensive Estimating: Develop complete estimates covering all aspects of the scope of work, including alternates, general conditions, vendor and subcontractor pricing, materials and equipment costs, and labor rates aligned with the bid strategy.
• Subcontractor and Supplier Management: Solicit and review pricing from subcontractors and suppliers, ensuring pre-qualification requirements are met when selecting the best-qualified partners.
• Proposal Preparation: Create accurate and comprehensive proposals, including project timelines, assumptions, exclusions, and required documentation. All proposals must have correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
• Client Engagement: Follow up with clients the next business day to gather feedback on pricing and scope, promote the company's differentiators, and request meetings to discuss how value can be added to the project. Record data in the company CRM system.
• Opportunity Tracking: Ensure timely follow-up, closure, and tracking of all identified opportunities. Tracking market share is an essential requirement.
• Post-Bid Participation: Engage in post-bid interviews to provide detailed information on scope, sequence, assumptions, and exclusions as needed.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.

Requirements

• Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, or a related field, or 5+ years of concrete estimating experience, with at least five years in a leadership role.
• Concrete Preconstruction: Proven experience managing concrete preconstruction processes.
• Construction Knowledge: Extensive knowledge of construction principles and practices.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication and organizational abilities.
• Bilingual: Proficiency in English and Spanish is preferred but not required. Ability to pass drug screening.
• Must have reliable transportation to job sites.
• Valid driver’s license
• Must have reliable transportation to the workplace(s)/ job location(s).
• Ability to successfully pass a background check related to driving (for any driver)
• Ability to pass drug screening.
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and in the future.

Benefits

Kent Companies provides its employees with one of the most competitive compensation and benefits packages in the construction industry. Benefits vary by location, with a fully customized benefits package presented upon hire. Typical benefits packages include:

• Weekly pay
• PTO (Paid Time Off)
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Supplemental insurance options
• Retirement plans with discretionary employer-matching
• Holiday pay (New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day)
• Scholarship opportunities for dependents
• Leadership development opportunities