Chief Estimator

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the company's estimating function for structural and miscellaneous steel projects.
• Prepare and review estimates for fabrication, erection, and furnish-and-install scopes.
• Analyze architectural, structural, and miscellaneous steel drawings, specifications, and contract documents.
• Perform and/or oversee detailed material, tonnage, labor, equipment, and subcontractor takeoffs.
• Develop accurate shop fabrication and field erection labor estimates.
• Solicit and evaluate material, subcontractor, equipment, and vendor pricing.
• Establish labor, material, equipment, overhead, and profit assumptions for bids.
• Review project schedules and identify potential cost and productivity impacts.
• Cookordinate with project management, operations, detailing, engineering, and field personnel to validate estimates.
• Lead final bid reviews and provide pricing recommendations to company leadership.
• Mentor and develop estimators and other members of the preconstruction team.
• Participate in post-bid reviews to compare estimated versus actual project performance and improve future estimates.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of structural steel estimating experience preferred.
• Strong background in structural steel fabrication and erection estimating.
• Demonstrated ability to estimate complex commercial, industrial, and miscellaneous steel projects.
• Ability to interpret structural drawings, architectural drawings, specifications, and contract documents.
• Strong knowledge of AISC standards and structural steel construction practices.
• Experience with estimating software and digital takeoff tools.
• Strong mathematical, analytical, and organizational skills.

What We Offers

• Leadership opportunity with a growing structural steel fabrication and erection company.
• Opportunity to have a significant impact on estimating processes and company growth.
• Work on a variety of structural and miscellaneous steel projects throughout the Midwest.
• Collaborative environment working closely with operations, engineering, detailing, and project management.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Opportunity for long-term career growth.