Job Description
Your skills and abilities as a Construction Estimator are needed at Gil Haugan Construction. Your experience in commercial construction, project management, and networking are needed. You are motivated, organized, detail-oriented, analytical, and innovative. Our competitive wages, benefits package, and small team environment will be a great fit for you. This is a rare opportunity to begin a profitable career with Gil Haugan Construction.
Your responsibilities will include reviewing plans for takeoffs, preparing bid requests, managing multiple project estimates simultaneously, evaluating subcontractor estimates, and evaluating costs against historical and regional models.
As our ideal candidate, your experience in a fast-paced estimating environment, understanding of the commercial construction environment, ability to read and understand building plans, and high proficiency in utilizing technologies including office and construction visualization software suites.
Gil Haugan Construction has been a family-run enterprise since 1960. We offer health, dental, and vision coverage and a 401k match. This position is full-time and is compensated based on qualifications and experience.
Responsibilities
- Develop bids for construction projects.
- Select metrics to produce valid estimates.
- Resolve cost differences by analyzing and collecting info.
- Prepare detailed reports or bids for submission to appropriate parties.
- Works closely with architects and other professionals.
- Foster relationships with key vendors (subcontractors, architects etc.).
- Stays up to date with safety codes and improvements in construction.
- Analyzing requirement documents, blueprints and project plans to thoroughly understand the project.
- Determining what factors of production will influence the cost of a service or product.
- Preparing material estimates and cost estimates for the product or service.
- Creating labor estimates for any project.
- Developing and maintaining relationships with company vendors and contractors.
- Managing bids from vendors and contractors.
- Using bid data to prepare detailed a cost analysis.
- Presenting prepared estimates to management and other stakeholders.
- Tracking of potential projects via multiple forums and relationships.
- Compiling and recording actual costs.
Skills & Requirements
- Proven experience as a construction estimator.
- Ability to navigate specifications and plans.
- Familiarity with analyzing requirement data to develop material and cost estimates for large projects.
- Ability to handle multiple assignments at once.
- Basic understanding of accounting and project management concepts.
- Comfortable with numbers and technology.
- Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Well-organized and reliable.