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Location: Odessa, TX / Abilene TX / Houston, TX
Type: Full time
General Information/Job Summary
Prepare and take ownership for cost estimating of bids and project proposals, identifying risk, opportunities, and maintaining a winning strategy.
Job Responsibilities
- Prepare detailed estimates in accordance with the scope of work, blueprints, specifications, and other documentation to prepare quantity take-offs, for foundations, structural steel, pipe, and process equipment.
- Apply work hour unit rates for each item in the estimate to generate the overall direct work hours.
- Understand the construction equipment requirements.
- Understand the temporary facilities requirement and field non-manual staffing requirements.
- Assist in the solicitation of quotes from material and equipment suppliers, subcontractors, and specified manufacturers.
- Distribute and maintain control of bid documents.
- Identify special Client or project requirements for weather protection, cranes, hoists, HES requirements and services.
- Analyze project location and productivity associated with the location.
- Reviews labor costs and applicable licensing requirements.
- Ensure that all bid forms are completed and properly executed.
- Facilitate bid review meetings with Business Unit Management, estimating group, and/or business line management to finalize bid.
- Coordinate with other departments during the bid process on proposals.
Job Qualifications
- 5 years’ experience with industrial civil, structural steel, process equipment and piping estimating
- Working knowledge of estimating software; MC2 a plus
- Competitive bid experience in Petro-chemical, power, gas processing, refining and other heavy industrial facilities.
- Construction field experience highly preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of estimating strategies and techniques.
- Thorough understanding of construction industry practices, processes, and standards and their impact on project activities.
- Knowledge of estimating Best Practices.
- Occasional travel required.
- Follow safety regulations while on jobsite visits including the wearing of proper attire, safety gear, protective hat, safety glasses and shoes as required.
- Good written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
- Professional, ethical, and team player willing to grow with the company.
- Overtime may be required to meet work demands
Physical Requirements
- Ability to stand, walk, or sit 1/3 to 2/3’s of the scheduled work shift
- Office environment – indoor with low to moderate levels of noise
- Read engineering blueprints and reduced size black and white drawings, specifications, fine print, reports, schedules, estimates and other documents in either hard copy or on computer monitor.
- Required on occasion to observe construction progress outdoors by walking or driving to or on the site over rough or uneven terrain, which may be dusty, muddy, wet and noisy.