Director of Estimating/Chief Estimator (Coppell, TX) - Austin Bridge & Road

Austin Industries is one of the nation’s largest, most diversified U.S.-based construction companies. With more than 7,000 employee-owners, Austin Industries provides nearly every type of civil, commercial and industrial construction services through the expertise of our operating companies: Austin Bridge & Road, Austin Commercial and Austin Industrial.

Austin Bridge & Road has an outstanding opportunity for a Director of Estimating/Chief Estimator at our corporate headquarters in Coppell, Texas. The Director of Estimating/Chief Estimator will provide leadership, management, and team development within the estimating department. This hands-on role includes leading robust client interaction, strategic project identification, developing highly collaborative business partnerships, and ensuring we submit high-quality estimates and proposals. They work collaboratively with operations while leading and managing the estimating team to drive accountability toward innovative, competitive, and compliant estimates and proposals following robust and clearly defined estimating procedures. The Director of Estimating/Chief Estimator will ensure all estimating activities align with one of Austin’s core values: Integrity, with specific emphasis on client and business partner interaction.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Estimating Managers
• Senior Estimators
• Estimators

Responsibilities:

• Maintain existing relationships and build new relationships within existing and potential clients
• Develop win strategies through engagement with estimate kickoff process and estimate review process
• Leadership and oversight of the estimating team. Includes staffing and all stages of employee development
• Delegates and assigns estimates to the team while ensuring estimating team accountability
• Ensures all bids are submitted thoroughly, completely, and on-time with high quality and fully compliant forms and submittals
• Establish estimating standards for all estimates and oversee analysis of past performance on estimates
• Act as the estimating "subject matter expert". Recognize areas of estimating improvements through observation or from recommendations from the team
• Engage throughout the preconstruction process as needed to ensure understanding of the project goals, client goals, and drive the estimate strategy throughout the estimating process and review
• Cultivate and maintain strong partnerships with diverse subcontractors and vendors partners
• Oversee final subcontractor and vendor selections while applying prequalification standards and procedures
• Develop and maintain client, subcontractor, and other industry relationships at the appropriate level, reinforcing commitment to continuously address their needs and interests
• Actively participate in company-wide initiatives to further key company goals
• Ensure profitable project budgets. Responsible for overseeing the estimate hand-off process between preconstruction and operations
• Full understanding of market and market conditions and strong relationships with local business partners
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Transformational leader with demonstrated experience
• Excellent communicator and an ambassador for the company
• Has a thorough knowledge of building systems, current market pricing, and practical application of modern quantification and estimating techniques from conceptual and schematic design through final budgets
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and HCSS Heavy Bid
• Ability to lead, develop and manage staff, and positively motivate others to achieve results
• Ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organization and cross functional departments
• Demonstrated ability to make decisions based on sound business reasoning
• Ability to manage changing situations effectively

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, Engineering, or related field. Proven experience may be substituted for a degree.
• 10 years of preconstruction experience for a highway/heavy civil company
• Proven track record, strong leadership skills, and experience managing complex projects and estimates more than $100 Million
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality
• Ability to act decisively and effectively in stressful situations with a sense of urgency
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Bridge & Road is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Benefits & Compensation

We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)! To learn more about our employee-ownership structure, please go to https://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/100-employee-owned.

Austin Bridge & Road is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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About Austin Bridge and Road

A leader in the heavy highway and transportation industry for more than 100 years, Austin Bridge & Road delivers asphalt and concrete services, and builds landmark projects such as complex highway interchanges, tollways, runways, bridges, rail projects, and water/wastewater facilities.

To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/bridge-road.

No Third-Party Inquiries Please

This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement). 

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company. 

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