Project Estimator

At CleanSpace, the Project Estimator position serves as the organization’s management representative on projects from conception until construction award. This includes the establishment and control of project scopes and budgets - Including phases such as concept development, schematic phases, design through construction documents and preconstruction/design-assist schematic design. In parallel the Preconstruction Manager serves as our corporate liaison between our clients (project owners) and provides oversight and direction to our subcontractors, design firms, manufacturing, and field labor divisions. This position supports client relationships, and alongside sales and the balance of operations, works to provide our clients with projects that are completed within budget, on schedule, and in accordance with our safety and quality standards.

Experience Level and Background

3 to 8 years minimum in construction and project development. Engineering or architectural degree or formal training with equivalent experience.

Department Roles and Responsibilities

The department focuses on early phase opportunity/project planning/development, cost development, schedule development, cost history tracking, risk management, revenue building, and development and execution strategy of early-phase project opportunities, dispute/change order resolution, tracking of early-stage project change and project success.

The department fosters strategic execution and cost alignment with field operations, manufacturing, design, project management, and project development to ensure the competitiveness and success of a project’s scope, schedule, and budget. The department is responsible for the accuracy of corporate and sub-division project budgets including manufacturing, and field labor. The department collaborates on costs and remains responsible for the pricing and gross profit margin of projects. The department ensures a sound transition of a project’s scope, execution strategy, and budget from sales to operations.

General Roles Responsibilities

Provides strategic management, and input on project approach and execution strategy including project design concepts, budgets, schedule, submittals, billings, etc. Conceptualizes, plans, and communicates workflow activities to ensure project objectives are achieved. Fosters client relationships to ensure complete satisfaction with current opportunity and positions company for future repeat opportunities with client.

Specific Roles Responsibilities

Maintains direct responsibility for projects pre-construction estimating budget, scope, and schedule. Leverages understanding of building processes and systems to establish project milestones, project guidelines, and deadlines. Collaborates with design, manufacturing, field labor and management divisions, external vendors, and subcontractors. Ensures all materials, trades and labor scopes are defined, submitted, and procured as required to execute the project. Develops and maintains cost control/scope control procedures, billing/collection procedures, change management control and procedures, status reports (weekly, monthly, etc.).

Typical Day-to-Day Activities

• Team lead that is directly responsible for cost estimating at the preconstruction phase.
• Team lead that is directly responsible for project schedule at the preconstruction phase.
• Team lead that is directly responsible for risk management at preconstruction phase.
• Team lead that is directly responsible for communication and contact with our clients and project owners.
• Team lead that is directly responsible for vendor/subcontractor relationships, prequalification, and negotiations.
• Team lead that is directly responsible for identification and works as a contributing team member toward resolution and compromise.  
• Team lead that is directly responsible for smooth turnover and transition from sales opportunity phase through the preconstruction phase and ultimately the execution phase.
• Team lead that develops, tracks, and maintains project budget performance metrics, profit metrics, and other metrics as needed for competitive analysis and the development of competitive advantages.  
• Develops and assists in pre-sale and post-award presentations as needed.
• May work on and assist opportunities through the sales process.
• Maintains company standards and ethics.