About the job
Join our dynamic team at Trueline as a Commercial Construction Estimator! Reporting directly to the President and CEO, you will play a pivotal role in estimating costs for a variety of commercial construction projects. Your expertise will be essential in both conceptual budgeting and hard bid proposals, overseeing the pre-construction and bidding process from inception to award turnover.
As a reputable Commercial General Contracting and Construction Management firm, we proudly serve the greater New England area, specializing in ground-up construction, tenant improvements, and renovations across the Retail, Restaurant, Corporate, and Commercial sectors. We are looking for a self-motivated professional with a strong construction background, excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to manage projects effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze and comprehend bid documentation, identifying risks, constructability issues, site logistics, sequencing, phasing, and time constraints.
- Collaborate with team members to develop accurate bid strategies for project proposals.
- Conduct detailed trade and vendor take-offs across all relevant scopes of work.
- Ensure accuracy and identify scope gaps among trades and vendors.
- Maintain communication with trades, vendors, design teams, and internal stakeholders throughout the pre-construction process.
- Draft scopes of work for each applicable trade.
- Prepare detailed estimates for both conceptual and hard bid proposals.
- Ensure customer proposals are accurate, featuring detailed CSI breakdowns, alternates, allowances, qualifications, and exclusions.
- Adhere to all required bid documentation compliance.
- Support the pre-construction team in building and maintaining our trade and vendor database.
- Foster positive relationships with trades and vendors.
- Collaborate with the Assistant Estimator to set up RFQs in our construction management program and distribute them to trade partners and vendors.
- Work with the Assistant Estimator to solicit and obtain proposals from trades and vendors.
- Develop and maintain a cost history database.
- Facilitate transition meetings upon award with project management and superintendent teams.
- Lead pre-bid meetings with trade partners.
- Document client pre-bid meetings.
- Prepare preliminary construction schedules as needed for bid requirements.
- Collaborate with project management and superintendent teams to address any pre-construction inquiries throughout the project lifecycle.
- Verify and document existing site conditions to ensure bid document accuracy.
- Prepare Requests for Information during the bidding process.
