Reconstruction Estimator

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

• Educate customer on the construction process.
• Work with customers to understand desired upgrades/changes.
• Ensure that estimates meet customer and insurance requirements.
• Prepare the file to go into production.
• Analyze labor, material, and time requirements for a project.
• Create an accurate sketch and initial scope of work for construction projects.
• Deliver a consistent and well-defined initial estimate.
• Recognize project constraints and/or needed upgrades.
• Work with Project Managers to price bid items, supplements and change orders if needed.
• Identify and document finalized project scope of work.
• Work with outside resources as necessary to support work cycle (i.e Structural Engineers, ITEL, Electrical Inspectors, etc.).
• Assemble accurate and well-organized estimates, supplements and change orders.
• Deliver and communicate estimate to adjuster who is assigned to the claim.
• Provide contract to the insured to execute once adjuster approves submitted estimate.
• Ensure that all the executed documents are collected so that the project can enter the production cycle.
• Help work through any supplements that the project managers need assistance with during production cycle.
• Support the estimating department through helping write mitigation estimates, as needed.
• Provide peer reviews for the other estimators in the office in mitigation & construction capacity.
• Help with training monthly with industry knowledge that can be used to educate the team through building comradery and teamwork within the office.
• Aid, as needed, in first response in times of inundation within the company.

Physical and Work Environment Requirements

• Walking and/or standing throughout the day.
• Frequent driving and sitting.
• Occasionally climbing ladders.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to extreme conditions such as heat.
• The noise level at individual jobsites can be loud.