Traveling Estimator - Hotel Renovations/Ground up

Job Title: Traveling Estimator - Hotel Renovations/Ground up

Location: Remote

Salary: $110,000-$150,000

Skills: hotel, renovation, hospitality

About the Building Construction Company / The Opportunity:

Join a growing building construction team specializing in hospitality projects throughout the United States. This opportunity offers an experienced Traveling Estimator the chance to support hotel renovations, guestroom upgrades, PIPs, rebrands, public-area improvements, capital projects, and ground-up hospitality construction. You will play a critical role in developing accurate project budgets and competitive proposals while collaborating with owners, architects, subcontractors, vendors, and field leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare detailed estimates for hotel renovation, hospitality, commercial renovation, and ground-up construction projects.
• Review plans, specifications, drawings, scopes of work, and project requirements.
• Perform detailed quantity takeoffs for labor, materials, equipment, and subcontracted work.
• Develop conceptual, schematic, budgetary, and hard-bid estimates.
• Solicit, evaluate, and level competitive bids from subcontractors and vendors.
• Identify scope gaps, exclusions, allowances, risks, and value-engineering opportunities.
• Develop labor and material pricing based on project location and current market conditions.
• Participate in pre-bid meetings, site walks, property assessments, and owner meetings nationwide.
• Prepare bid summaries and final proposal packages, and assist with contract negotiations and project turnover.
• Maintain estimating databases, historical cost information, market pricing, and regional subcontractor relationships.

Must-Have Skills:

• At least 3 years of construction estimating experience preferred.
• Experience estimating hotel renovation, hospitality, commercial renovation, or commercial construction projects.
• Strong understanding of construction means, methods, labor, material, equipment, and subcontractor costs.
• Ability to read and interpret architectural, structural, MEP, and specialty drawings.
• Strong quantity takeoff, cost-estimating, bid leveling, and proposal preparation skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Excel, along with construction estimating software.
• Ability to manage multiple estimates, deadlines, and project requirements simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, organization, and time-management skills.
• Willingness to travel extensively throughout the United States.
• Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with Bluebeam, Procore, PlanSwift, OST, or similar estimating platforms.
• Background with hotel renovation contractors, hospitality general contractors, design-build firms, or national renovation contractors.
• Experience with hotel PIPs, brand conversions, occupied-hotel renovations, and capital improvement projects.
• Knowledge of public-area, lobby, restaurant, ballroom, amenity, pool, fitness-center, exterior, ADA, and MEP renovations.
• Experience coordinating millwork, casework, flooring, finishes, and FF&E.
• Exposure to ground-up hospitality construction and value-engineering processes.
• Established relationships with regional subcontractors, suppliers, and vendors across multiple markets.