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🏗️ Senior Construction Estimator | Commercial Construction (Long Island)
📍 Long Island, NY · Full-Time · On-Site · 💰 $150,000 to $200,000 Full Benefits
A Long Island-based commercial construction and development firm (over five decades in business, family-founded, and growing) is hiring a Senior Estimator to lead preconstruction and help shape how the company pursues and wins work.
This is a leadership seat, not a desk in the corner. You’ll run complex estimates from conceptual budget through final bid across a genuinely varied portfolio, with real influence over the systems, cost data, and strategy behind every pursuit. They’re clear about it: they’re not looking for someone to just put numbers together, they want someone who thinks critically, flags risk early, creates value for clients, and helps drive the business forward.
✨ Why this role
- 🧠 A true leadership position in preconstruction, with a direct line to Operations, Project Management, and Executive Leadership
- 🏢 Real sector variety: industrial, multifamily, education, hospitality, self-storage, office, and commercial, so you’re not estimating the same box twice
- 🔧 A mandate to build: help develop the estimating systems, processes, and historical cost database as the company scales
- 📈 Stability and momentum together: a family-founded firm with 50 years behind it and a growing pipeline ahead
- 🤝 A culture that runs on accountability, transparency, and teamwork, with a stated focus on a world-class client experience
🔨 What you’ll do
- Lead estimating and preconstruction for commercial projects across multiple sectors
- Prepare conceptual, schematic, GMP, negotiated, and hard-bid estimates
- Run comprehensive quantity takeoffs and scope analysis
- Review drawings, specs, and documents for completeness, constructability, and risk
- Solicit, evaluate, and level subcontractor and vendor proposals
- Develop value engineering recommendations and cost-saving strategies
- Support budgeting, procurement, and subcontractor buyouts
- Join client, preconstruction, and design coordination meetings
- Mentor junior estimators and build up the estimating team
- Strengthen subcontractor and vendor relationships
- Help build and improve estimating systems and historical cost data
🎓 What you bring
- 10 years of commercial construction estimating experience (preferred)
- Strong grasp of construction means and methods across multiple asset classes
- Ability to run large, complex estimates independently
- Sharp analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills
- Confidence managing multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with conceptual estimating, GMP development, and value engineering
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and estimating software
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- Bachelor’s in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or related field (preferred)
🎁 Compensation & benefits
💰 $150,000 to $200,000 · 🩺 Health, dental & vision · 💼 401(k) · 🌴 Paid time off
🧭 What they value
Focus · Reliability · Integrity · Transparency · Tenacity
👉 Interested? Apply directly, or reach out for a confidential conversation about the role, the pipeline, and the company.
Salary : $150,000 - $200,000